FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Fleshie
(July 2022)
We live our lives in our skin… wearing our heart on our proverbial sleeve. It’s what we are born in and die in. We watch it’s evolution as we become aware of it, learn how to care for it, find ourselves & intimate others, CREATE offspring, ART & age.
Our flesh can say so much across a continuum of tales and executed well it can also be a great costume.
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July 22nd - August 7th, 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 ☯☯☯
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Your Playbill
Due North
film by Chantal Caron (c) 2022 CANADA
A dance film about life, embodiment of the wild Chantal Caron – Director, Writer, Producer Dancers - Nicholas Bellefleur, Charles-Alexis Desgagnés, Marie-Êve Dion, Evelyne Laforest, Léa Lavoie-Gauthier, Leïla Mailly, Louis-Elyan Martin, Marie-Maude Michaud, Alexandre Morin, Katherine NG, James Phillips, Gabrielle Roy Richard Saint-Pierre - Cinematographer Mirenda Ouellet - Editor Sound – Éliette Doyon, Marie Bernier, Louise Fortin, Brigitte Boulet, Pierre-Marc Beaudoin - Music Vivianne Audet – Music
Gasping Voices
film by Freya Pauwels, David Jacobs (c) 2021 BELGIUM
Gasping Voices subverts the established relationships of conventional dance theatre by creating an intimate digital space, as if you are on stage yourself. She emphasizes the importance of movement through space whilst focusing on personal audience experience. Gasping Voices is a unique and distinctive testimony by dance creatives, redefining their destiny through a worldwide pandemic. Freya Pauwels - Director & Writer David Jacobs - Director Jacowbski Invites - Producer Dancers - Nele Deckx, Jonathan Dikaay, Niki Sfakianakis, Laurent Reunbrouck & Denis Inghelbrecht
Fresh oranges into the ocean
film by Silvia Giordano & Nuanda Sheridan (c) 2022 ITALY
While merging and intertwining with nature, three young girls create a metaphorical and visionary narrative of their present condition and their projections towards the future. Through their lightness, disorientation, vitality and strength, they embark on an choreographic journey facing high and low tides, turbulence and contradictions, calm and turmoil. Guided by absurd questions the oranges reflect the path of the protagonists in their delicate passage to adulthood and guide us in a poetic reflection on our lives. Silvia Giordano - Director Nuanda Sheridan - Director Silvia Giordano - Writer Silvia Giordano - Choreographer Dancers - Noemi Calzavara, Reiko Ohta, Eduarda Santos Sofia Quercetti - DOP/Filmaker Giorgos Gargalas - Music composer La Cap - Producer
Enantiodromia
film by Kristi Cole (c) 2021 USA
Enantiodromia, explores the journey of women* navigating shame in pursuit of something felt deep within our bones, of something once known, but somehow lost in the current moment. It not only seeks to demonstrate the emotional and psychological labor of shedding the layers that have been put upon us, but also highlights the effort required to work through these opposing qualities so that we may begin to liberate ourselves from our socially imposed domestication. *The word women includes anyone and everyone who identifies as such Kristi Cole - Director, Producer, Choreography, Editing, Performance Max Coker - Sound Design Greisy Genao – Cinematography
Uphold (from below)
Film by Cherie Sampson (c) 2019 USA
This video-performance was created at the site of a large, half-alive cottonwood tree in a woodland near the Mississippi River in the American Midwest. The tree had been struck by lightning several years prior to making this work and weathered the storm. In June 2017, when this was shot, I had recently completed my last round of chemotherapy after a diagnosis of breast cancer earlier that year. The video is comprised of footage shot just days before my body was forever altered by surgery. It was the last opportunity to create a site-based piece with body in the landscape as I had known and worked with throughout my life as an artist and a woman. Multiple superimpositions of the figure appear, including a momentary image of the post-surgical body shot later, representing different states of process and being.
Cherie Sampson - Director
NA - Writer
Cherie Sampson - Producer
Cherie Sampson - dancer
Charles Gran - Musical Composition & Production
Elaine AuBuchon - Instrumentation (Oboe)
Brian Kubin - Instrumentation (Cello)
Between Doors #3
Film by Steve Clarke (c) 2021 USA
Dancer performs in narrow hallway. Steve Clarke - Director Sharon Cooper - Dancer
Lethe. still act
film by Réka Szűcs (c) 2020 ICELAND
A Still act, to initiate the subject in a different relationship with temporality. Stillness operates at the level of the subject’s desire to invert a certain relationship with time, and with certain (prescribed) corporeal rhythms. Which means that to engage in stillness is to engage into different experiences of perceiving one’s own presence. This is anthropologist and cultural critic Nadia Seremetakis’ insightful notion of the“still act.” For Seremetakis “still acts” are those moments of pause and arrest in which the subject --by physically introducing a disruption in the flow of temporality -- interpellates “historical dust.” Against the flow of the present, -- writes Seremetakis -- there is a stillness in the material culture of historicity; those things, spaces, gestures, and tales that signify the perceptual capacity for elemental historical creation. Stillness is the moment when the buried, the discarded, and the forgotten escape to the social surface of awareness like life-supporting oxygen. It is the moment of exit from historical dust. /André Lepecki/ Lethe (Greek: “Oblivion”), in Greek mythology, daughter of Eris (Strife) and the personification of oblivion. Lethe is also the name of a river or plain in the infernal regions. In Orphism, a Greek mystical religious movement, it was believed that the newly dead who drank from the River Lethe would lose all memory of their past existence. The initiated were taught to seek instead the river of memory, Mnemosyne, thus securing the end of the transmigration of the soul. At the oracle of Trophonius near Lebadeia (modern Levadhia, Greece), which was thought to be an entrance to the underworld, there were two springs called Lethe and Mnemosyne. Réka Szűcs - Director, Writer, producer Kristóf Helyei - Producer Miklós Holczer - Producer Lísandra Týra Jónsdóttir - Dancer
visible
film by Carolina Kzan (c) 2021 FRANCE
Looking As An Act of Witnessing In the instant before the world collapses transforms reshapes the third time this minute our breaths catch and we hold the same air as it ripples, disappears, reforms in our exhale curling up the tail of a cat, curious we wind around each other, concentric not quite circles, the pull of witnessing each other witness the same miracle, looking to know What did you see when you looked at that which moved the world and the looking changed you, and changed me? Carolina Kzan - Director (Hel Questioning Out Loud, Exitum) Omaro Productions - Producer Irene van Zeeland - Choreographer Irene van Zeeland - Dancers Patrick Zordan - Dancers Herman Witkam - Composer (Dikkertje Dap, Mees Kees) Caroline Mary Abraham - Poem Nicolas Blachon - Still
Us
film by Jordan James Bridge (c) 2018 UK
‘Us’ is a contemporary dance film that explores the fragility and stability between two bodies. With ideas of contrast, illusion and personal relations in the creative process, a duet emerged that emits emotional content and exploits a tempestuous nature within the partnering. Jordan James Bridge - Director, Choreographer Ray Moody - Cinematographer, Editor Lisa Rowley - Dancer Jemima Brown - Dancer Brima Fullah - Musician Aston David Joshua - MUA Alex Gregory - Colourist
P A N O R A M A
film by Davide De Lillis (c) 2020 ITALY
In 2010 he started a personal research focused on shape and definition of the “stratification” and “landscape” concepts in connection with the body, that develops in installations and choreographic pieces. Starting from geometry and astronomy he is fascinated by anatomy, proportion and details; these elements compose the core of his transversal scenic imagination. In his works, the body becomes the irradiate core of the artistic research which focuses on analytical exploration of movement as a part of different knowledge. Contextually to artistic research, Nicola Galli creates and manages educational workshops dedicated to children, adults and young dancers, designed to explore the movement, discover new visions and perceptions of the body and new reflections of his own physical and communicative border. Davide De Lillis - Director, Editing Nicola Galli - Director, Dancer, Music TIR Danza - Producer
HANDS FIRST ACT
film by Luca Di Bartolo (c) 2017 ITALY
Our hands can tell about the most intimate part of us: what we are, our fears, desires, past, and hopes. They can converse and live through gestures of our soul and yearn for a rebirth that we feel is needed. Luca Di Bartolo - Director, Writer, Producer, Dancer
SHIFTING TOOLS
film by Francesca Santamaria (c) 2021 ITALY
A moving body is a perfect machine where all its elements operate a continuous game of shift, replacements and variations. Music writes (gives) the rules of the game. A camera becomes the player who combines and manages the infinite possibilities that are revealed from multiple perspectives. Who is the conductor of this orchestra? Francesca Santamaria - Director, Dancer, Choreography Mattia Cursi - Director Claudio Juan Averoff Rico - Music
The Space I Take Up
film by Kyna Marie Damewood (c) 2022 USA
The Space I take Up is an experimental dance film directed by Kyna Marie and performed by Susanne McHugh. The short film focuses on themes of mental illness, as Susanne plays out her struggle with OCD, agoraphobia, and depression. In her fight to find motivation and purpose, she eventually surrenders to the discomfort that resides within. Kyna Marie Damewood - Director, DP, Editor Susanne McHugh - Choreography and Performance Krysta Brayer - 2nd Camera Operator Sean Petell - Music Composer Ariana Farfan - Hair and Makeup Mitch Cady - Set Design Nick Greenwald - Set Design
Samba #2
film by Rosane Chamecki , Andrea Lerner (c) 2014 BRAZIL
The In SAMBA #2 chameckilerner chooses to have one samba dancer filmed in extreme slow motion, dissecting this iconic Brazilian cultural manifestation that reveals Brazil’s most profound physicality, the “samba”.
The choreographers work with the cliché of the samba challenged by the possibilities of subverting it. The frame, tight on the hips, is stolen from mainstream Brazilian TV, where Rosane and Andrea grew up. “The Chacrinha frame”, as they like to call, evokes a popular 70’s talent show on Brazilian TV, where, often, the camera zoomed tightly to frame the hips of the dancers, also known as the “chacretes.”
By lengthening time, we are forced to contemplate, as the movement reveals itself in an unpredictable way. The tension between hips against legs creates a discomforting “dance of the flesh”, demolishing (metaphorically and literally) the materiality of the body into a disorienting landscape.
chameckilerner aspires with SAMBA #2 to create an authentic and visceral experience, drastically changing the perception of the familiar “samba.” This cinematic deconstruction allows for a visualization of what is most visceral about the samba: its primal energy. It is as if our eyes can finally see what our bodies always felt watching the samba: its lush, violence, and undomesticated physicality.
All people from all places bring their landscapes in their bodies. SAMBA #2 rescues this landscape.
Rosane Chamecki - Director
Andrea Lerner - Director
chameckilerner - Writer
Tanja Meding - Producer
Nao Yamada - Dancer
Frank Stanley - Director of photography