FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Performance ART
(November 2023)
The most natural thing is for movement to be incorporated into Performance ART. Is it dance, is it art, is it atmospheric or presentational? You be the judge. It could just be undefinable and experiential. “…and its where the most profound transformation happens” – Tony C. Johnson
November 17 - December 3, 2023
«»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
The Meadow is Ten Kisses Wide
film by Robin Bisio (c) 2017 USA
The Meadow is Ten Kisses Wide is a dance film as romp up a trail in winter where rains have summoned birds, frogs and a running creek. The title of this nature meditation comes from a remark by a dancer in 1980 by Pina Bausch. Robin Bisio - Director & Producer Anna Carnes - Dancer
Incontri - Gabriel Schmitz
film by Chiara Becattini (c) 2022 ITALY
Gabriel Schmitz, a German artist deeply fascinated by dance and movement, is joined by three dancers in a series of performances in an ancient Venetian palace, during which art and movement intersect to create new meanings.
Chiara Becattini - Director
Gabriel Schmitz - Artist
Elena Giannotti - Dancer
Maiko Nishino - Dancer
Christina Marti Ninot - Dancer
Flux
film by John R. Killacky (c) 2022 USA
Inspired by scores, propositions, and performance actions of Fluxus-era artists, filmmaker John Killacky performs his own gestures based on their instructions and prompts in this wordless process-focused video.
John R. Killacky - Director, Producer & Dancer
Don't Be A Drag
film by Kate Gupton (c) 2021 USA
Don't Be A Drag ask the question "when does the dance really start or stop". In dance, and in life, we think of movements and stories as defined by a beginning and an end but what happens to our art when we blur those borders?
Kate Gupton - Director & Dancer
Zac Covington - Producer
Shea Carponter-Broderick - Dancer
Eric Chappelle - Music and Text
Faye Driscoll - Music and Text
Bardo
film by Dmitri Peskov (c) 2023 USA
Dreams, memories and hungry ghosts...
Dmitri Peskov - Director. Writer & Dancer
Elizabeth Stich - Dancer
Seasons of the Mind
Film by Mimi Garrard (c) 2023 USA
"Seasons of the Mind" is dance created for video, directed by Mimi Garrard, featuring the dancers Tim Bendernagel and Cynthis Koppe, the composer Joao Castro Pinto, and the costumer Mindy Nelson.
Mimi Garrard - Director, Writer & Producer
Cynthia Koppe - Dancer
Tim Bendernagel - Dancer
Joao Castro Pinto - music
EL Z G
Film by Dilan Ercenk-Heimann (c) 2021 GERMANY
EL Z G is an attempt to capture the nature of a cultural shaped and established dance phenomenon. The video work is a distillation of the folk dances and music of Turkey's Elazig area in East Anatolia. The (Halay) dances on which this project is based are transferred into an artistic-performative format and downscaled on their essential features. This interpretation renounces the force of group dance energy, the variety of colorful traditional costumes and the auditiv dominance of live instrumentation to enable a different perspective on this specific materiality of movement.
Dilan Ercenk-Heimann - Director, Concept, Choreography, Editing, Music & Dancer
Deren Ercenk - Director & Camera
Chains
film by Sacha Djordjevic (c) 2023 NETHERLANDS
A woman walks with difficulty in the middle of the desert tied to a suitcase. After entering a trance he must gather strength to fight for his freedom and break the bonds.
Antonio Quijano - Director & Writer
Gabriel Quijano - Producer
Lita Baluarte - Dancer
Behind the Face of a Rock, Throwing Stones
film by Surface Area Dance Theatre, Bim Ajadi UK
Behind the Face of a Rock, Throwing Stones is a dance film exploring ideas of language, contemplation and expression, with choreographic research centred around lived experience of British Sign Language, D/deaf culture, Japanese culture and Butoh. The result is a multi-sensory, embodied encounter; audience members are invited to utilise the wearable technology worn by dancers in the film, experiencing the work through both watching and feeling vibrations through the body.
Central to the piece is the Japanese philosophy Ma (間), translated as a gap, pause or interval. Dancers physically interpreted the possibilities of Ma by envisioning the entire body as a listening instrument, capable of feeling, touching, and seeing sound. The film aims to bring these ideas together, inviting viewers to see the colours and textures of both sound and silence in every space they encounter.
Surface Area Dance Theatre - Director
Bim Ajadi - Director
A Vanished Day - best existence
film by Robin Bisio & Kaita Mrazek (c) 2021 USA
A Vanished Day, shot entirely on iPhone, features dancer Kaita Mrazek in the golden light of an early fall by the beach. Culture resides in the fleeting kelp life she shares with dolphins, cranes, crabs, seashells and the wily octopus. Memory remains in the tide lines of expression as the day washes away.
Robin Bisio - Director & Producer
Kaita Mrazek - Director, Producer & Dancer
Billy Winger - Composer
Glue
film by Amanda Hoover (c) 2022 USA
A film about feeling stuck or constrained by something in your life but not doing anything about it. Eventually it consumes you and you're one with it.
Amanda Hoover - Director
Kelsey Smock - Dancer
Flock
film by Mischa Lydian (c) 2023 USA
A dance exercise gone lost in editing, queer and improvised
Omnipresent Toychest - Music
Mercy K Nelle - Music
Mischa Lydian - Music
Innerself
film by Roberta di Martino (c) 2023 BRAZIL
Through movement, we heal our history, our traumas. By reconnecting with our spirit, we free ourselves from the artificial environment and the countless mandates that exist and interfere with our spiritual and mental freedom. Setting aside words and connecting with our bodies—through dance's manifestation—we reach levels of unconsciousness where we identify and release fears, pains that prevent our evolution, even becoming cyclical, emphasizing that healing is not a singular destination but eternal. InnerSelf is an experimental video dance that traverses different levels of unconsciousness, connecting the protagonist to the foundational source of creativity: exploration and play. As the audiovisual progresses, the protagonist delves deeper, allowing herself to play with the initial connection we have with our inner selves and life: water.
Roberta di Martino - Director, Writer and Producer
Ana Laura di Martino - Dancer
Utopia
film by Michael Gug Kongshaug (c) 2023 DENMARK
Our blind spirits are looking for strength before it's too late to see what could be Utopia.
Michael Gug Kongshaug - Director, Editor, Writer & Producer
Mettelise Hansen - Producer
Jesper Duelund - Producer
Dancers - Christina Dyekjær, Amanda Back, Lisbeth Ravn Riis, Hanna A. Lokøy, Abraham Rademacher, Casper Preisler, Timothy De Mesa, Anne Sofie Stubbe Lindeberg &
Christine Sollie
Kristian Kofod - Co-Producer
Esther Hertz - Production Manager
Simone Wierød - Choreographer
Jesper Duelund - Director of Photography
Tim Panduro - Editor
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Jesper Garde Kongshaug - Gaffer
Robert Garde Kongshaug - Gaffer
Johan Benda - 2nd AC
Kaj Ivanovic - Color Grading
Jesper Duelund - Idea
Special Thanks - Bjarne Persson, Sidney Lexy Plaut, Michael Hertz, Copenhagen Light Festival & Skov og Naturstyrelsen Nordsjælland