FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: tExtUrE

(June 2023)

Texture exists in visual images, sound waves, touch, taste, in physical sensation and movement. Close your eyes and let’s take a moment to acknowledge all the texture emanating from within… Now let’s do it again with our eyes open. It is everywhere.

“In the visual arts, texture is the perceived surface quality of a work of art... Our experience of texture in visual art relies on our experience with the physical world.” – Unknown

This month, in tune with the textures we are emersed in through a choreographer’s lens.

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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

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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

INVaaDERS

" They came from far, far away, bringing their lights, sounds and vibrations. They came in peace. Let's be friends ! "

"To make the film INVaaDERS, I drew on my childhood memory (born in 1964...) in order to use all my

visual memories related to cinema and tv shows from the 70s and 80s. I was fascinated by the basic special effects,

the random clippings, the psychedelic backgrounds, the arcade games that occupied me for whole days. It is

therefore an emotional tribute to this lo-fi era, in which I immersed the dancing bodies like free electron pixels,

which also guided me to compose the musical universe".

Didier MULLERAS - Director & Producer

team DFC studios L'Espace 13 Béziers France - Dancers

Parades

Enter a world where fantasy and dream combine with the movement of the body, where time stops until rebirth.

Alan Lake - Director & Writer

François Gamache - Cinematographer

Antoine Berthiaume - Music

Dancers - Odile Amélie Peters, Fabien Piché, David Rancourt & Esther Rousseau-Morin

As Big as the Sky

We examine our conditioned layers of facade, created over time between our inner instincts and our outer way

of moving through the world. We struggle with unzipping precisely what we feel, what we think or imagine.

Our mental game of hop-scotch from past to the conditioned present suffocates our truest expression. Jumping

from square to square, we can relearn how to play, how to honor that young spirit and reveal more of our inner

instincts & emotions. A deep desire to return to the imaginative soul we were born to be inspires a new and

colorful transparency as we age.

The dance film medium offers opportunity to reimagine spaces and cross-pollinate between artistic mediums of

sculpture, dance & film. With permission granted by internationally renowned artist, James Turrell, we were

honored to film within his sculpture, 'Three Gems', in San Francisco at the de Young Museum. His work

explores the way that light and space impact the eye, body, and mind with the force of spiritual awakening.

Our character's journey through his childhood memories, juxtaposed with the monotony of middle-age unfold

beautifully within the concrete vessel of Turrell's 'Skyspace'.

Lindsay Clipner - Director, Producer & Editor

Tom Kubik - Director of Photography

Margo Moritz - Director of Photography

Katerina Beckman - Writer, Production Coordinator & Choreographer

Jaime Castilla Garcia - Dancer

Lucy McKnight - Composer

Henry - Classical Guitarist

Jaimelynn Duggan - Stylist

Reneff-Olsen Productions - BTS Photography

Rainstorm

a visceral and sensorial experience of a rainstorm visualized through dance

Dance style: Flamenco dance vocabulary in a contemporary setting

hilde de roover - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer

amanda dlouhy - Dancer

Remain

"Remain" explores themes of solitude and subtlety within the naked body. It exists in an abandoned space where

small shifts in movement create tides of energy that swell and reignite a sense of hope. This project was self filmed

during a Covid-19 lockdown and is part of the 9 part dance film series "Turbulent Kingdoms."

Kit Reilly - Director, Dancer, Camera Operator, Composer & Editor

Amber Liberté - Film Mentor

House of Glass

Film by Mike Godlewski USA

A house embodies the person within. It's what you choose to keep inside and what you choose to let out. It's where you live, where you love, where you dream. A house represents who

you are today and who you'd like to be tomorrow.

House of Glass explores the contrast between two states of being: the warm and the cold, familiar and foreign, natural and artificial. It's an evolution of the psyche and a journey to

rediscover oneself.

Mike Godlewski - Director & Cinematography

Alexandria Diaz De Fato - Choreography & Performance

One Shilling

Film by Monica Nicolaides UK

One Shilling. A contemporary dance film where four strangers from different backgrounds escape everyday life

for one night, drinking and dancing in one of London’s underground bars during the Blitz.

Monica Nicolaides - Director

Judy Ibelhauptaite - Producer

Dancers - Cameron Everitt, Susana Campesino, Mukeni Nel & Melanie Whitehead Smith

Olivia Cottenden - 1st AD

João Luís Ribeiro - Cinematographer

Faisal Khan -1st AC

Thomas Caminada - Gaffer

Alessandra Corazzini - Production Designer

Ben Lloyd-Evans - Composer

Miguel Pinto - Editor

Aphrodite's Wave

Aphrodite's Wave is a water and shore-based dance short from the beaches of Santa Barbara, California. With

goddess uprisings in a sea of foam, time itself rearranges itself to eternal myth. Dancers are Carisa Carroll and

Natalia Perea with an original score for whistling and violin by Blake Bainou. Nik Blaskovich is director of

photography and editor.

Robin Bisio - Director & Producer

Dancers - Carisa Carroll and Natalia Perea

IXCHEL

Mother moon, liquid Nahuatl, salty skin … Among the steam your presence vanishes and clings to the roots. You embody the navel of the

world, where life sprouts and ends … In an environment of surreal nature, an archetypal figure is revealed though a lyrical, visual painting in

motion. Crafted by the superposition of opposites: water-land, dryness-blooming, grounded-volatile, IXCHEL invites the audience on a

mysterious journey loaded with visual creativity and a sensual cinematic construction.

Ana Baer - Directpr & Producer

Rocio Luna - Director, Producer & Dancer

Claudia Fragoso - Dramaturg

Joaquin Lopez Chas - Composer

Close to Be Bone

Close to the Bone, a short film by Anabella Lenzu, exposes the inner dialogue of an artist in the examination of the

creative process. Lenzu shows the struggles, the desires, and the internal contradictions that make visible the

vulnerability of the performer.

Anabella Lenzu - Director, Script, Choreographer & Dancer

Todd Carroll - Videographer and Editor

HinterTerra

Developed on journeys through the streets and paths of Malta, a group of women, the local, the nomad, and the

visitor, experience sites through the perspective of the other. The resident local provides depth and authenticity

and vice versa, placing a stranger into a familiar environment highlights the features that have forgotten to be seen.

The editing intensifies the opposing features of historic architecture and the sounds of construction sites, illuminating

themes of heritage and development, and frictions between community and commerce.

Ana Baer - Director, Camera & Editor

Heike Salzer - Director, Camera, Choreography & Dance

WE Create Productions - Producer

Florinda Camilleri - Choreography & Dance

Michelle Nance - Choreography & Dance

Robert Burton - Costume Design

Jack Laidlaw - Music Composition

Doors

Doors was created in collaboration with three choreographers who designed scenes of movement with three very different, unique doors.

This piece explores moving in outdoor spaces where doors appear in both nature and as brick n mortar. The camera was a witness to what

was revealed.

David Gaylord - Cinematographer

Her Road Out

The story of Exodus is a crucial part of history & details the transition from oppression to freedom. We often see the

story told from the perspective of Moses, having authored the book of Exodus under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

However, as a woman, I wondered about the daughters, sisters, wives, & mothers of that time. What did they experience

& what emotions were felt? Her Road Out explores the story from the perspective of the women of that time.

Amanda Van Meter Burch - Director, Director of Photographer, Editor & Still Photography

Central Florida Choreographers Collaboration - Producer

CFCC Films - Producer

Dancers - Brooke Felty, Alyssa Hopkins, Rachel Jimenez, Fay Leonard, Allie Waslicki & Alexandra Zwarycz

Scott Buckley - Music

Courtesy of freesound.org - Sound FX

Tiffani Torres - Camera Operator

Olivia McCartney - Production Assistant

Special Thanks - 8 Count Productions, Contempo School of Dance & Bryan Glazer Family JCC

Olivia in the Leaves

Olivia takes her thoughts into the woods and finds her grounded -ness through nature.

Aimee McDonald - Director

Olivia Lemmenes - Dancer

Move

An experiment with time, form and movement in a generative dance film using AI and video

Bernardo Alevato - Director

Taianne Oliveira - Dancer

Shuffle, Tumble, Soar

It's the morning rush, and Dera is the speeding force that the MTA train was not. She narrowly flows through traffic, crowds and obstacles, as she approaches her destination, only to

become entangled in another challenge. Struck by a hard realization; quite literally, she must take a moment for herself, and dance to a different rhythm, finding her own path,

outside the overbearing forces of the working world.

Eric Sciole - Director & Writer

Agnes Wielgosz - Producer

Asya Zlatina - Dancer

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Breaking the Surface

film by John Evans & Ani Javian

Breaking the Surface is a dance film about climate change, specifically, about the rise of sea level and the issues that are caused by that rise,

currently and projected into the future. The film focuses on communities in New Jersey and the region that are being, and will be, most affected by

the changes.

John Evans - Director & Producer

Ani Javian - Director

Thomas Grothues - Producer

Rutgers Research Counsil - Producer

Rutgers Dance Department - Producer

Dancers - Aaron Lewis, Kiana Rosa Fischer,

Paul Ocampo, Heather Jean Favretto,

Alex Silvas, Camille Moten, Marianna Allen, Elena Yasin, Nova Teeling & Aaron Ramos