FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: DANCE Class ‘22
(May 2022)
With the guidance of their mentors and teachers, students are finding their big voices on tiny screens, practicing comp class on big screens and teachers are using the student body to illustrate the embodied camera and using editing as an extension of the choreographic process. Vice versa, mix ‘em up, chance, experimental and sometimes orderly depending on the work. Introducing the future of DANCE Film.
May 20 - June 5th, 2022
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene
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"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene ☯☯☯
“We think the only way to change the worlds is through ART & we appreciate our audiences more than you know. Thank you for experiencing the DANCE with us, please enjoy this month’s event!
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— Jennifer Scully-Thurston, Rogue Dancer Creator & Curator
Your Playbill
Holocene Dreams
film by Cara Hagan (c) 2021 USA
Artist Clayton Bailey left a collection of works behind after his death that invite us to imagine the world through the eyes of robots and mythical creatures. The Curated Storefront project in Akron, Ohio brings this work to downtown Akron in the fall of 2021. A group of UAkron dancers move in and around the exhibit. A fantastic journey leads the dancers to explore their relationship to reality and the role we play in creating the world we know. Cara Hagan - Director
2020-2021?
film by Leslie Yusuke Watanabe (c) 2021 USA
"2020 - 2021?" illuminates the social and emotional challenges we face individually and as a community, by reminding us of the hope and resilience in the human spirit -- awe-inspiring, even in the face of the COVID pandemic. Leslie Yusuke Watanabe - Director, Writer, Producer & Film Crew Dancers - Gabi E. Hamlin, Allison Engelstad, Moises Martinez Trejo, Anna Rose R. Deardorff, Susie K. Krall, Garett P. Gangelhoff, Alia Takashima & Emma Bucher Film Crew - Keith Macadangdang, Jesse Rivera Johnson & Madelynne Thomas
Arising
film by Jody Cassell (c) 2022 USA
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Passing Phases
Film by Jarren Lau (c) 2022 SINGAPORE
Against the backdrop of William Blakes's "The Echoing Green", Passing Phases is a dance narrative film that celebrates the moment of now, the act of living.
Each dancer portrays the different phases in life; Birth, Growth and Death. Each with their own unique style and place, they exist together as a whole, much like the poem itself; the 3 stanzas that describes the act of living and it still seen as a whole
Jarren Lau - Director & Producer
Dancers - Chao Peng Chan, Cheryl Grace Wee & Xue Jing Pang
Your body your mind
Film by Linh Ngoc Le (c) 2021 AUSTRALIA
Through the story of a locale dance teacher, see his entire career from when he was a teenage boy first interested in dancing to becoming the teacher of some of the best dancers in the world. Listen to the history of a locale studio and it's owner passion for dancing. Linh Ngoc Le - Director, Writer & Producer Don McRobert - Dancer
remembering
film by Hanna Bailey (c) 2021 USA
This work is a place of remembering where you come from, despite being in a world of constant motion. I am inspired by our childhood memories, which stay with us as we grow and navigate through life. Memories are like dreams. They can be vivid, fuzzy, or somewhere in between. We can’t physically touch them, but we can visualize the moments and feel the sensations associated with them. Specifically, I am focusing on how returning home can allow certain moments to resurface and possibly hold incredible value. A home isn’t a physical place, rather it’s the people who occupy that space that add meaning to it. Hanna Bailey - Director & Producer Jenna Weatherbie - Dancer Skuli Sverrisson - Music
Beholder
film by Jillian Mitchell (c) 2021 USA
Jillian Mitchell - Director UGA Department of Dance - Producer Dancers - Kit Modus and UGA dancers
Floating Falling Flying.....a dance film
film by Nancy Dobbs Owen (c) 2021 USA
This piece grew out of my own new improvisation practice and is informed by all of what we are taught, what is imposed upon us, and what we need to leave behind; as dancers, as humans, as spirits. I hope you enjoy it. Nancy Dobbs Owen - Director & Choreographer Fabrizio Paterlini - Composer Grace Horrocks - Dancer Boris Karpuk - Pianist Sam Chavez - Videographer & Editor Ramone Garcia - Videographer
Continuum
film by Katie Phelan (c) 2021 USA
This screendance was filmed as a single-shot film and makes a perfect loop. Within the rehearsal process, choreography was built for the dancer’s bodies, while simultaneously considering multiple framing options of the camera to capture said movement. These considerations assisted in the development of the camera’s choreography for the work. The process of choreographing the camera's movement influenced, and was influenced by, the body's movement in the frame. This methodology allowed for observation of the relationships between camera and dancer, and these consideration helped build the score for the final iteration. Katie Phelan - Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Videography, Edit & Lighting Design University of Iowa, Department of Dance - Producer Dancers - Kara Bouck, Emily Trapnell, Emily Gumal & Katherine Shamdin Choreography - Katie Phelan in collaboration with dancers Nick Coso - Lighting Design Daniel Fine - Faculty Advisment
Come to Life
film by Olivia Evans (c) 2022 USA
Olivia Evans grew up training in classical ballet and contemporary dance, and is currently a student in the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program. She began creating work in 2019, and has choreographed several pieces for stage, including "Arrhythmia" (2019), "Reverberate" (2020), "Spherical" (2021), "who knows?" (2022), and "Absence of Wonder" (2022). She created her first short dance film "in the city" in 2021. Olivia Evans - Director & Producer Dancers - Ally Ng, Camille Tokar Pavliska, Carissa Logan, Liza Smelyanska & Sunny Winn
Blue Couch Ballet
film by Nancy Dobbs Owen (c) 2021 USA
A dance film exploring isolation, depression and a glimmer of hope during the Covid experience. Created over zoom, filmed remotely then edited, once again, over zoom. A tiny triumph of humanity over despair. Nancy Dobbs Owen - Director/Choreographer Chanelle Schaffer - Pianist Dancers - Joyce Lo, Kennedy Sizemore & Annie Grove Puppett Puppett - Editor
Trapped
film by Lina Sierra USA
Lina Sierra - Director, Producer, Choreographer & Dancer Joseph Sierra - Cinematographer Maura Nguyen Donohue - Faculty Advisor Burke Brown - Production Manager Will WatkinsTechnical Director Special thank you to the Hunter College Dance Department including Carol Walker (Chair), Christina Cetoute and Kat MacKenzie. Special thanks: Evolution- Benjamin TissotComposer/Musichttps://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music Manic Kinetic- SoularflairComposer/MusicFree Music Archive, CC BY-NC Thunderstorm- Hanu DixitComposer/Music Venus Fly Trap- António BizarroComposer/MusicFree Music Archive, CC BY-NC Frost- HOVATOFFComposer/Music SCI-FI- Benjamin TissotComposer/Musichttps://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
The Atelephobe, The Oracle, & The Recluse
film by Katie Gutman (c) 2021 USA
This screen dance explores the fraudulent feelings of those that struggle with Imposter Syndrome to create movement interpretations of perfectionism, expertise, isolation, and burnout. Video editing choices provide the viewer with a glimpse into the brain’s pacing and processing while struggling with these feelings and the score used, written by Michael Wall, creates a sense of anxiety and models the stress and despair one might feel as they judge themselves. Katie Gutmann - Director & Choreographer Michael Wall - Composer Taylor Walzem - Choreographer & Performer
REMINISCENCE
film by Jo An Li (c) 2021 UK
REMINISCENCE explores how memories are given meaning by the context in which they are being remembered. Through a frame by frame process of film is the tale of one old woman’s past emotional journey, which is intrinsically linked to both joy, regret and the passing of time. The film positions into the memory of the old woman, who seek to make sense of her lives by integrating her experiences into more or less coherent stories —past. Her young self begins physically filling the empty spaces with anything and everything she can. Jo An Li - Director Fraser Stephen - Cinematographer Victoria Medvedeva - 1st AD Caitlin Lawther - Dancer Ayse Gönen - Make-up Artist Pär Carlsson - Sound designer Allison Blair - Voiceover Artist
OPTIC
film by Allison Beaty (c) 2021 USA
Our eyes do not function like a camera capturing and presenting a straight-forward image of light. Instead, the neurological processing mechanisms in our brains interpret all of the stimuli in our field of vision and cause immediate abstraction in our perception of the world around us in order to help us function and make sense of our experiences. This screen dance explores this neurological principle of vision as viewers are only privileged to specific perspectives or parts of the whole picture. Viewers are therefore encouraged to follow their brain's natural abstraction instinct to interpret and make sense of what is present and what could be present outside of what is clearly visible on the screen. Allison Beaty - Director, Videographer & Editor Choreographer - Allison Beaty in collaboration with the dancers Dancer - Savannah Bowman, Brandy Day, Savannah Jenkins, Abigail Marshall, Leondria McRae, Genna Stott & Aislinn Travis “5 115” by Michael Wall - Music
Wehnu Saï
film by Mitchell Rose (c) 2021 USA
Wehnu Saï means "unity in many" and was made as a response to the forced isolation of the pandemic. One piece of Africanist choreography is broken into 2-3 second phrases, each performed by one of the 140 people in the department. A torrent of images surge by, but in the midst of the chaos there is the continuity of the single choreographic thread being realized by a great diversity of humanity. It is a visual representation of "unity in many." Mitchell Rose - Director, Writer & Producer Dancers - 140 members of the Department of Dance at Ohio State University Momar Ndiaye - Choreographer Billy Goodrum - Composer