FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: DANCE Class ‘24
(May 2024)
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. 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 24 – June 9, 2024
«»dance for the camera», «video dance», «cine dance», «screendance», – may seem somewhat interchangeable, they are, in actuality, quite specific. Each term speaks to a particular combination of performance and materiality, and each sites the dual properties of their hybridized identities in an order that signifies the relative importance of the parts.” - Douglas Rosenberg, Screendance
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«»dance for the camera», «video dance», «cine dance», «screendance», – may seem somewhat interchangeable, they are, in actuality, quite specific. Each term speaks to a particular combination of performance and materiality, and each sites the dual properties of their hybridized identities in an order that signifies the relative importance of the parts.” - Douglas Rosenberg, Screendance ☯☯☯
“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!
Click on the picture below to access this month’s SHOWCASE. ”
— Jennifer Scully-Thurston, Rogue Dancer Creator & Curator
Your Playbill
Turning En Pointe
film by Ramona Haywood (c) 2023 USA
A high school dancer struggles to find direction in her life when she becomes too focused on dance perfection.
Ramona Haywood - Director
Angelrina Suon - Writer
Noemi Lopez - Producer
Sherlyn Santiago - Dancer
Upward Spiral
film by Lily Selthofner (c) 2022 USA
Upward Spiral is an experimental Screendance documentary that navigates the subjective embodiment of selves, objects, and spaces, forging paths between aloneness and togetherness, towards awareness and expression.
Lily Selthofner - Director, Choreographer, Videographer, Editor, Movement Artist, Visual Artist & Speaker
Makae Brieschke - Videographer, Musician, Visual Artist, Speaker & Production Assistance
Julia Haynes - Movement Artist, Visual Artist & Production Assistance
Eva Thomas - Movement Artist, Visual Artist & Production Assistance
Adara Allen - Movement Artist, Visual Artist & Speaker
Sofia Trujillo - Movement Artist, Visual Artist & Speaker
Sydney Brown - Movement Artist & Visual Artist
Bevin O'Toole - Movement Artist & Visual Artist
Talia Cecelia Rosenthal - Sound Composer
James Pecore - Composer
Cindy Wu - Violinist
Drew Peterson - Pianist
Jane Meenaghan - Sounds
Zoe Elison - Visual Artist & Speaker
Kendal Kully - Visual Artist & Speaker
Conner BarronVisual Artist
Madeline Fields - Visual Artist
Mollie Schmidtberger - Visual Artist
birdworm
film by Darius Anthony (c) 2023 USA
Interpretation:
Everyone has their own interpretation of what something is or means. There is no right or wrong answer just simple thoughts and opinions. Interpretations can be as deep and detailed as can be. As a viewer, how would YOU interpret this film? For me, this film explores the internal fight to self reflect on the past decisions a person makes in life.
But idk you tell me?
Darius Anthony - Director
Ashleigh Lewis - Dancer
Relics of The Afrofuture
film by Ivy Nicole Jonet (c) USA
Relics of the Afrofuture acts as a nonlinear portal of present relics and future possibility, linked through nature. The link between Black life and nature is crucial, in this portal natural resources are not weaponized against Black communities. Black life is cared for and preserved as the environment.
On the sliding spectrum of Afropessimism to Afrofuturism, we both find ourselves in the in-between. For us Afropessimism acknowledges the reality of the lasting effects of colonialism and imperialism in relation to folks of African Diaspora. We view Afropessimism as the reality of the present moment, that lets us know reform cannot be synonymous with or to reconstruction, reform must be synonymous with abolishing the systems which are not in support of Black existence. Afrofuturism for us is experienced through people of African descent being and existing in spaces and identities they were erased from, or not imagined in. Afrofuturism allows for Blackness to be expansive rather than confined.
A collaboration between Ivy Nicole-Jonét and Lee Edwards.
Ivy Nicole Jonet - Director
Lee Edwards - Writer
As A Girl
film by Linnan Liu (c) 2024 USA
As the world of social media reigns down on Lily, she must summon her courage and inner strength through dance.
Linnan Liu - Director & Writer
Grace Galarraga - Producer
Gemma Ryan - Dancer
Yida Liu - Director of Photography
Zhihan Yang - Choreographer
Daniel Mangiaracino - Composer
When It Thaws
Film by Julie Anne Carrier (c) 2024 USA
When It Thaws is a five minute Dance Film which explores the detrimental effects of the glaciers melting.
Julie Anne Carrier - Director
Haley Altieri - Dancer
Anna Murray - Dancer
Give Me More
Film by Lauren Linder (c) 2023 USA
"Give Me More" is a Screendance film that portrays the sexualization of young girls in dance competitions and examines the affects of long-term sexualization.
Lauren Linder - Dancer, Producer & Choreographer
Megan Streichenwein - Dancer
Isabella Trocino - Dancer
Pivot
film by Rileigh Morrow Goldsmith (c) 2024 USA
Link in 360°
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTOTHFr3DB4
Rileigh Goldsmith’s senior dance thesis project, “Pivot,” was an immersive virtual reality exhibition designed as a sensorial walk-through experience, featuring VR headsets for an up-close and engaging viewing encounter. This groundbreaking project combined 360º dance performances with introspective prompts, guiding viewers through themes of forging new paths and shedding ties which no longer serve them. In each performance, viewers navigated the virtual reality space as they choose, free to gravitate towards what captivates them.
Act III of the gallery, Pivot, explores my fantasy that our universe is made up of infinite realities, each containing a unique “you” which has traveled a different path. In some realities, you remain tethered, apathetic, and stagnant. In others, you are unbound, confident, and empowered. What might happen if the you today caught a glimpse of the you who opened a different door? In this movement fantasy, our highest selves pivot, transitioning from silence and fear to joy and agency.
Rileigh Morrow Goldsmith - Director, Writer, Dancer & Choreographer
Alex Li - Lighting Designer
Dancers: Curry Jackson, Whitney Zhang, Allison Dobbins, Brooke Forrey, Chloe Kim, Melisa Orduna, Mya Waple & Olivia Weber
Trigger Warning
film by Robin Prichard (c) 2021 USA
This dance is two hours of anger contained inside a 3 minute dance. Using the slam poem of Karina Stow as sound accompaniment, Trigger Warning explodes the emotions around domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Robin Prichard - Director
Yitong Chen - Dancer
Through Her Eyes
film by Olivia Jean Buckley (c) 2024 USA
This film captures the mind through issues with entrapment and mental health. Filmed in Beverly Massachusetts, it connects differences in nature to visualize what one might experience during times of depression or anxiety.
Olivia Jean Buckley - Director
Vittoria Rodrigues - Dancer
I Am The Dance
film by Lily Andrews (c) 2023 USA
A villanelle about a ballerina and her relationship with dance.
Lily Andrews - Dirfector, Wrigter, Producer. Editor & Cinematographer
Charlotte Borden - Dancer