FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: DREAMstate
(October 2022)
Our imaginations are wondrous things. We embrace the strange and the bizarre illustrating impossible actions, accomplishments and relationships. The processing of worries and challenges when our mind is at rest. This Halloween season we are celebrating “The ODD”, dancing scenarios we conjure up in the deep recesses of our subconscious. DREAMscapes.
October 21 - November 6, 2022
«»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!
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— Jennifer Scully-Thurston, Rogue Dancer Creator & Curator
Your Playbill
DayDreaming
film by Rourou YE (c) 2021 USA
A lonely dancer finds herself trapped, facing a door. With no escape, she is confronted by multiple beings caught in an unexpected battle. Deeply personal and playful, Daydreaming speaks to the isolation and anxiety of our contemporary times, and the power of our imaginations to shed light where there is darkness.
Rourou Ye - Director & choreographer & Performer
Sophia Shenpiano - Composition & Performance
Quarantine Hotel
film by Yoko Murakami (c) 2022 JAPAN
Quarantine Hotel was created within the 6 days of confinement during 12/26/2021 and 1/1/2022 in Tokyo, Japan. Bound by space yet unbound by time or imagination- the small hotel room was where claustrophobia and anxiety turned into unapologetic expression. Yoko Murakami - Director & Dancer
Junk 2020
film by Mimi Garrard (c) 2020 USA
"Junk 2020" directed by Mimi Garrard and featuring the dancer Austin Selden and the composer Jonathan Melville Pratt is a dance created for video inspired by a junk yard.
GLORIA!
film by Roswitha Chesher (c) 2019 UK
Famous New York choreographer, GLORIA!, is at Greenwich Dance ready to direct her first dance film, Disco Inferno. And Sarah ….. is running late! On her way to star in the dance film, Sarah stumbles across some curious happenings. Roswitha Chesher - Director & Producer Chenube-Ruth Bailey & Greenwich Dance - Producer Dancers - Sarah Blanc, Levantes Dance 30 other performers - Key Cast Sarah Blanc - Movement Direction
Dialogus inter Feminas et Natura
film by Sabina Andrea Allen (c) 2020 GREECE
The arrival of a mysterious engraving about Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian at the Historic Palace of the Aljafería (Zaragoza) awakens the spirit of its old inquisitors, reviving the invincible designs of guilt and desire. José Alberto Andrés Lacasta - Director, Writer & Producer Leonor Villaluenga Peña - Producer Antonio Ayesta - Dancer Ingrid Magrinyà - Dancer
finding us, again
Film by Ieva Bračiulytė, David Comeaux (c) 2021 USA
Outside, on grassland, beside stone walls and park benches and beneath an extensive sky, 8 dancers, come together. They are referred to by the colour in which they are dressed. And these colours make up the progress pride flag. These colours come in the form of robes, skirts, tunics, trousers and tops which are non-gender specific. These dancers and their colours, they, dance alone, they cross paths, they interact with each other and those who have come to watch, young and old, distanced and close. In this abbey's ground the people can 'dance together'. The dancers and their colours influence the way one another moves, by using pedestrian rhythms, expansive gestures and intricate grooves. They roam, collect and divide across the abbey's ground. On the grassland, beside its stone walls on park benches in it's archaic fall... Phil Sanger - Director & Producer YDT Studios - Director Carrieanne Vivianette - Writer Dancers - Michael Marquez, Tammy Tsang, Ben King, Mayowa Ogunnaike, George Swattridge, Azizi Cole, Parris Elektra, Owen Burns, Grace Ford & Paulina Porwollik
La naturale bellezza del creato (The natural beauty of creation)
Film by Michele Bernardi & Roberto Zappalà (c) 2021 ITALY
LIKE WATER acknowledges the resilience of our ancestors, passed down from generation to generation. A world unkind to our people, yet somehow we survive. A world that that has conditioned us to not see the beauty of our skin, hair, culture and our people. But like water we flow, like water we change shape. We remain resilient. Mthuthuzeli November - Director Nauris BuksevicsDirector of Photography Cassa Pancho - MBE Artistic Director Asisipho Malunga - Writer Richard Bolton - Producer Dancers - José Alves, Isabela Coracy, Alexander Fadayiro, Marie Astrid Mence & Ebony Thomas Georgina Lloyd-Owen - Music Composer Hannah Gibbs - Administrator
Floating Departures
film by Shannon Cuykendall (c) 2021 CANADA
Floating Departures is an independent dance film and meditation created in response to life during the pandemic. It was created remotely during lockdown, January-May 2021, and recorded with smartphones. The repetitive routines we clung to during lockdown are juxtaposed with memories of a significant change in our lives where we felt in control. We seek to find meaning in an ever-emerging illogical world and take the audience on a journey through multiple layers and abstractions of reality. The way in which we made Floating Departures is as much a statement of life during lockdown as the art we created. We used a broad range of technologies to transform our everyday spaces–from everyday objects (e.g., balloons and bubble wrap) to AI art systems. Our bricolage approach to art making, while necessitated by lockdown restrictions, also led to new creative potentials. We bring together dance movement, poetry, painterly styles, and sound to create a new place, unbound by reason or logic. In this new realm we explore not only our personal experiences during lockdown, but also the experiences of a larger collective body that emerged in the space between one another. This new realm was only made possible through our evolving process and technologically-mediated interactions. Although we created this work while in separate spaces, these artistic elements were developed iteratively, in close relation to one another. Through this work we demonstrate how technologically-mediated dance collaboration can provide a new lens for understanding our body and movement beyond physical barriers. Shannon Cuykendall - Video/Movement Direction, Editing, Sound Design, Movement,Text Creation, Performance and Recordings Steve DiPaola - AI Painterly Styles and Poetry Alexandra Pickrell - Movement and Text Creation, Performance and Recordings Roya Pishvaei - Movement and Text Creation, Performance and Recordings
NIGHT HAG
film by Anete Tambaka (c) 2021 LATVIA
NIGHT HAG is a mythological creature in Latvian folklore who is a soul of a murdered person cursed to live in this world. The creature tends to wander around at night and strangle cattle and people in their sleep. Anete Tambaka - Director Jana Juste - Producer Jana Jacuka - Dancer Nauris Miķelis Goba - Dancer
A Full Circle - Movement #3
film by Rodrigo Rocha-Campos (c) 2021 CANADA
Three stories about the necessity of being close. And to dance. Jan Palmblad - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer
The Elevator Box
film by Marilena Grafakos (c) 2020 GERMANY
Marilena Grafakos - Director, Writer & Producer Dancers - Anni Bork, Celine Gallée, Fabio Kikaj, Hanna Mayer & Hannah Stoerzer
Garden Party
film by Didier MULLERAS (c) 2021 FRANCE
GARDEN PARTY is part of DFC dance for camera project, started in 1998 by french choreographer and film maker Didier Mulleras. The idea for this film was born during a visit to the botanical garden in Rio de Janeiro. There was a woman, alone, sitting on a bench, who kept getting up, going around the bench as if she was looking for something, and then sitting down again. She did this without interruption, in cyclical iterations, sometimes punctuated by long pauses, during which she turned her head, right and left, seeming to talk to people sitting next to her. But there was no one there. Her movements, a mixture of nervous gestures followed by almost perfect stasis, were reminiscent of the very particular gestures of the actress Gena Rowlands in the film "A Woman Under the Influence" by John Cassavetes. This inspired the choreography and movement direction of the dancers in this film. Parks and gardens are the immobile witnesses of our lives, of our desires, of our thoughts. Flowers look at us, listen to us, accompany us, like calm and discreet spectators of our inner adventures Didier MULLERAS - Directordirector & Choreographer team DFC studios L'Espace 13 France - Dancers
un·fixed still life of Dolly S. Dalí... a mini epic
film by Jennifer Scully-Thurston (c) 2022 USA
A "coming of age" parable OR cautionary tale, of a woman turning into a Dalí painting. Jennifer Scully-Thurston - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer Christopher Scully-Thurstom - Composer Alex Maness - Cinematographer Dustin Travis Glasco - Editor Olivia Griego - Producer Production Assistants - Hazel McLeser, Stella McLester & Katie Quinn
Pûr'sĭ-kyo͝o'shən Persecution
film by Ola Sollie (c) 2022 NORWAY
We are in the fishing village of Vardø in the 16th century. Two people are on trial for sorcery and witchcraft where they try to prove their innocence through physical language. It is useless, we see a desperation grow in these people and it develops into a desperate dance for survival as a circle of flame is lit around them which burns closer and closer with no escape. This is a dance film based on real events. Ola Sollie - Director Daniel Grindeland - Writer, Producer & Dancer Vivian Pakkanen - Dancer Fie Baro - SFX MakeUp Glenn Clementsen Pettersen - DoP
Dressful of Dreams
film by Jim Haverkamp (c) 2018 USA
Dance film featuring The Bipeds, a Durham, NC based dance and banjo conglomerate. Jim Haverkamp - Director & Videographer Alex Maness - Videography Dancers - The Bipeds, Stacy Wolfson & Curtis Eller