FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Muted - CHROME
(JULY 2024)
A color palette adds to the mood and design, makes a statement or tells a story. A key ingredient in any dance film. This month we celebrate dance filmmakers who use this tool well. Muted tones or mono-chrome and everything in between, let’s investigate how color informs our experience and the movement in our heARTs when consuming ART with a language unfolding in choreography on screen.
July 19 – August 4, 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!
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— Jennifer Scully-Thurston, Rogue Dancer Creator & Curator
Your Playbill
to the nth
film by Dustyn R Martincich, Jess Hoversen & Andrew Roddewig (c) 2021 USA
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is its inability to understand the exponent." This simple statement from physicist Albert Bartlet exposes the greatest failure in human thinking.
Exponential growth and decay is present in every great disaster facing humanity; climate change, pandemics, war and misinformation. However, the exponent is also a tool for good demonstrated through progressive social change, education, vaccination, and peace. If humanity could better understand the exponential function its power, perhaps we could use it for make decisions about the future that heal rather than harm future generations.
Dustyn R Martincich - Director & Choreographer
Jess Hoversen - Director & Choreographer
Andrew Roddewig - Director
Dustyn Martincich - Producer
Jess Hoversen - Producer
Andrew Roddewig - Producer
Dancers: Hannah Jarosinski, Chiara Evans, Ellie Nocera, Kendyll Hazzard, Clare McGowan, Morgan Oldfield, Grace Grunt & Courtney Wolin
Stephen Holliger - Sound Design and Composition
Andrew Roddewig - Film Direction and Video Editing
A Different Day
film by Marta Renzi (c) 2020 USA
A collective portrait of 14 students from a state college dance department, created remotely in their native habitats, with the help of family, friends and pets.
Marta Renzi - Director
Rhode Island College - Producer
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film by Hiroshi Kizu (c) 2021 JAPAN
The frustration of simple communication.
The action emphasized by editing
it becomes a sound and forms a rhythm
in the head of who sees this
Experimental video where the image became a rhythm track.
Hiroshi Kizu - Director & Writer
Nobutaka Shimoda - Writer & Producer
Minami Tanpa - Dancer
Couplet
film by Andy and Dionne Noble (c) 2024 USA
Against the magnificent Texas landscape, an emotionally mature and steady relationship is revealed. As the couple moves through the open grasslands, they dynamically support one another, and their trust deepens. A moment of honest intimacy closes the film.
This film is funded by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.
Dionne Noble - Director, Cinematograohy & Editor
NobleMotion Dance - Producer
Andy Noble - Choreographer
David Deveau - Cinematography
Travis Lake - Music Composition
Jonathan Kinsey - Coloration
Dancers: Brit Deveau & Seth McPhail
The Underground
film by Morris Schmid & Blake Simpson (c) 2021 SWITZERLAND
Directors cut of an expressionist dance piece from Vivan Frazzetto in the basement of an old building.
Morris Schmid - Director
Blake Simpson - Director
Vivan Frazzetto - Writer
Luca Fortuna - Producer
Vivan Frazzetto - Dancer
Elegies
Film by John Killacky & Eiko Otake USA
2019 collaboration with Eiko Otake, John R.Killacky and Brian Stevenson
Pennies
Film by Katherine Maxwell (c) 2023 USA
Pennies comes from ‘a sigh of origin’, a 40-minute film situated within an aging psyche, exploring how the brain and body store memory beyond the conscious mind. This work is inspired by time spent between the director and her grandmother, who has late-stage dementia. In developing this work, Maxwell researched neuroscience, neuroplasticity, and epigenetics to further understand how the brain and body store memory beyond the conscious mind.
Katherine Maxwell - Director, Writer & Choreographer
Taylor Antisdel - Director of Photography
Producers: Lauren Fondren, Caitlin Adams, Taylor Antisdel, Stephanie Schramm, Gillian Halbreich & Robyn Ayers
Damcers: Ragin Smith, Sean Rosado, Xenia Mansour, Akane Little, Felix Bryan & Gabriella Sibeko
Maya's Faces
film by Jadi Italian Carboni (c) 2022 AUSTRIA
Different bodies appear from a warm red ocean, swirling, folding, and unfolding. Each is unique, and although they encounter similar experiences, the characters develop their own pathways, expressing and inspiring distinct emotions and ideas. They reflect the essence of each being: a centre of self and all visions. In Maya's Faces, we can witness the multitude of interpretations of that single gesture.
Maya represents the cosmic force, the illusion and the appearance, where things are not what they seem. Maya is transcendental, universal and individual.
Māyā is a word with uncertain etymology and multiple meanings, as our lives are. Probably from the root Mā, nuance "to measure". The Cosmic Self, the Power of Self Limitation, where everyone sees the same world according to their own self-being; and the Power of Self Absorption, where the individual forgets to be part of oneness.
Jadi Italian Carboni - Director
Antonia Italian Manhartsberger - Writer
Producers: Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture and Sport & Province of Styria, Department 9 Culture, Europe, Sports & Christina Austian Kasic
Dancers: Shirin Austrian Rieser & Ursula Austrian Graber
Christopher Albert Williams - Musician
Tom Austrian Bergner - Light Design
Eduard Austrian Haberl - Cameraman
Nicolae Austrian David - Video Editor
Kristallwer - Theater
Das Anderen Theater - Rehearsal Space
The Good Life (ailleurs/ici)
film by Didier Mulleras (c) 2024 FRANCE
this film is a poetic and experimental exploration of the notions of separation, memory and absence, in the human relationships that a group of people who have shared long periods of life and actions can have.
Some will go elsewhere, others will stay here. What will remain of their shared experiences, of all these moments of osmosis and cohesion? Life will remain. The good life.
THE GOOD LIFE
(ailleurs / ici)
Un film de Didier Mulleras
(DFC dance for camera / 2024)
film, chorégraphie, musique originale:
Didier Mulleras
collaboration artistique:
Dorothée Audrin
tourné au StudioDO - Pézenas
avec:
Anaïs Peyrottes , Margaux Ollier
Inès Maire, Rosalie Savigneux
Nina du Réau, Romane Motta
Dorothée Audrin
coproduction:
studios danse L'Espace 13 Béziers
StudioDo Pézenas
DFC dance for camera
... "If the absence questions, then , the lack will fill. It will fill this empty space, nourished by your emotions, your doubts,
your passions.
The image of our intertwined bodies, will still make people dance.
Our space will remain invested, marked by your energies. Forever.
Here, I saw you. Yesterday, I carried you.
Elsewhere, I will keep everything in thoughts.
Sharing, learning, each one has grown.
Dance has flourished.
Honesty and humanity have been beautified.
Beautiful life !
Take the step, live, create.
And one day, come back."
The Escape
film by Liudmila Komrakova (c) 2020 RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The patient in an insane asylum is given an injection to calm her down. She is left alone lying on the bed in a straitjacket overhelmed with her hallucinations and memories.
In the ward, another girl unexpectedly appears trying to bring the first one to consciousness.
Liudmila Komrakova - Director, Writer & Producer
Katerina Zak - Dancer
Maria Marinova - Dancer
Fireflies
film by Hanna Ojala (c) 2019 FINLAND
This piece is declaration of love to the moment, to Life itself.
Hanna Ojala - Director, Writer & Producer
A Full Circle - Movement #1
film by Rodrigo Rocha-Campos (c) 2014 CANADA
A Full Circle - Movement #1 is about transformation, change, and metamorphoses of the body and its outer skin. It deals with metaphorical and dreamlike situations in which the body is confronted by external forces manifested through make-up, paint, dust, light, mirrors, among other elements that bring to attention many different body parts and how these elements affect the movement, the dance, and the character.
Rodrigo Rocha-Campos - Director, Writer & Producer
Erika Mitsuhashi - Dancer
Rasha Amer - Cinematography
Mark Lemmon - Editor
Anthony Vani - Art Director
Will Meadows - Music
Lynn Megumi - Make Up
Lisa Ho - Choreography
Falling
film by Mary Trunk (c) 2020 USA
Falling encompasses everything we find ourselves in, from falling in love to falling forward,
backward, or sideways to falling for something, catching ourselves, falling asleep, and then
getting back up. It never ceases.
Contrasted with the regular routines of our daily lives, falling takes on both a literal and
metaphorical meaning. The actions are intimate and secretive, resembling a conversation
between individuals who are well-acquainted with each other. The constant cycle of falling and
rising is the foundation of every life, regardless of its scale. This shared experience unites us,
even though our language and ways of expression - whether verbal or through movement - are
unique to each individual.
Directed, Filmed, and Choreographed by Mary Trunk
Performed by Lizzie Udwin
Music by David Shohl
Salted Earth
film by Robin Bisio (c) 2023 USA
California has been in a drought state for many years but recently climate change has brought intense atmospheric rivers of rain to a thirsty land. Salted Earth exists in a state of paradox. Our original location was the dusty beach of Soda Lake in the Carrizo Plain. Its white and salty soil was completely covered with water when we went to film and the hills were awash with a verdant superbloom. We took our dance from a desiccated land to a lush landscape of flowers. This is a hope for our planet— that the dramatic changes we are seeing around the world and especially in California will lead to a regeneration of our green earth.
Robin Lancaster Bisio - Director & Producer
Kaita Lepore Mrazek - Dancer
Nik Blaskovich - Cinematographer & Editor
Catherine Davis - Composer
I'm Alive
film by Damani Alfreida USA
"I'm Alive" is a dance film that encourages every person to believe in their mere existence; to believe that they are enough. The project uses some imagery from the 2020 pandemic to further support the truth that we are all alive, despite what the world throws at us, because there is more for us to do in this Earth.
Damani Alfreida - Director & Dancer
Dancers: Darien Van Rensalier, Malcolm Miles Young, Alexia Jordan, Sanngeetha Santhebennur, Emmanuel Paulino, Genai Veal, Zy'Heem Downey & Edson Maldonado
Tres Pasos
film by Antonello Matarazzo (c) 2020 ITALY
Culture, and cultures, are the result of millenary migrations and contaminations. To the rhythm of an imaginary tango written by the Lucanian composer Rocco De Rosa, images of migrants of yesterday and today heap up, images of planetary pain but also evidence of the need to survive, always and at any cost, fleeing geopolitical and climatic injustice.
Antonello Matarazzo - Director, Writer & Producer
The Field
film by Sadi Mosko (c) 2021 USA
The Field blossomed from an early-pandemic introspection. Set in the foothills surrounding Boise, Idaho, it depicts a high desert in late summer colored in drab browns of sandstone and dying grasses. A human-centric perspective might consider it ugly—in need of weeding—but the film finds beauty in that decay, exposing the complexity of nature beyond conventional standards. By exploring how a dancer’s movement interacts with this setting, the film delves into themes of decay, renewal, connection, and isolation. Following an arc of sunrise to sunset, it draws attention to the brilliance of environmental systems as they transition and regenerate.
This project was made possible by the Covid Cultural Commissioning Fund, a collaborative partnership between Treefort Music Fest, the Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, and the Boise City Department of Arts & History.
Sadi Mosko - Director, Choreographer & Dancer
William Bowers - Video and Editing
Jun Campion - Original Score
Tambor
film by Andre Perim (c) 2020 BRAZIL
A pictorial project about dance and music. With Daniela Fraga Lima. Shadows are used as a primordial material for the creation of multiple images.
Andre Perim - Director
Daniela Fraga Lima - Dancer
Loneliness in the city
film by Emiko Tamura 映水子 田村 & Atsushi Kakefuda GERMANY
Emiko Tamura - Director
Atsushi Kakefuda - Director
Terrain
film by Daniel Gwirtzman (c) 2016 USA
Terrain, filmed in the desert region of Murcia, southern Spain, depicts a body in a vast mountainous landscape. At first a mere dot indistinguishable against this rocky backdrop, the viewer is challenged to discern the camouflaged body, a kind of Where’s Waldo. As the film progresses, the performer gradually comes into close focus, revealing detailed glimpses of the body akin to an animal in the wild. Further confounding expectations multiple variations of this body emerge from the arid land. What story can a body in this space provoke? How does a body surrender to natural forces: the unforgiving contours of a jagged terrain, an inhospitable climate, and the relentless teasing of insects? When is movement authentic, when is it artificial? How does the acquisition of learned behavior and dance technique influence habits, choices, and realities? The film explores these questions, highlighting the contradictions between the natural and the man-made. Stripped of a recognizable narrative, Terrain explores what happens when a context is disrupted. The idiosyncratic choreography investigates gesture and form, transforming the body into a panorama of identities. How lost can a body be when removed from its home?
Daniel Gwirtzman - Director, Choreographer & Dancer
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, AADK Spain - Producer
Kevin MacLeod - Composers
Jeff Story - Composers
Rosa Llinás - Camera
PATREON ONLY
Mostri
film by Luca Di Bartolo (c) 2020 ITALY
The monsters for a dancer are the fatigue behind the performance, the sacrifices, the difficulty of arriving. A dancer who returns to the times when worries and fears have escorted him. But it's just a journey into the depths of his thoughts. All of us, in the conquest of our freedom to be ourselves, live those feelings. All his memories came below a fiberglass dome.
Luca Di Bartolo - Director, Writer & Producer
Alessandro Cascioli - Writer
Alessandro Cascioli - Dancer
Telaraña - soundtrack