FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Dance 101 Edition (May 2021)

May 21st - June 6th

This is graduation month and Rogue Dancer Productions is looking to the future of Dance Film.  This month we are highlighting our Student Dance Filmmakers. Individuals who not only danced and choreographed through this crazy year but did it in style by pivoting to movement on the screen.  They became Directors!!!

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Retrouvailles film by Gracie Metcalf (c) 2020 USA

Throughout the entire world, the effects of the global pandemic and resulting isolation have impacted countless areas of life to include the performing arts world. Set in an empty theatre space, this Dance On Film seeks to investigate these consequences on the performing arts world as well as redefine what it means to connect and create in these times. We lost the ability to perform for an audience. To gather and dance together. To stand on a stage and truly perform. To create freely. To breathe freely. To work. To connect. But we can connect. We can reunite. We can rediscover. We can innovate and diversify. Performance finds a way. Performance always adapts. It’s an integral part of the human experience. It’s how we relate to eachother and make sense of the world. "The show must go on." -P.T. Barnum Gracie Metcalf - Director Aria MabryKey - Dancer Jenna Kinsaul - Dancer Joshua Walters - Dancer Silvia Beltran - Understudy Dancer TZ Films - Videographer “In My Blood/Swan Lake” - The Piano Guys

ПUZZLE (PUZZLE) film by Anastasiya Sovashchenko RUSSIAN FEDERATION

This film is about the moment when a person creates something unique and creative. We will consider what the process consists of, what hinders it and what helps. It's like traveling from room to room, where dance parts that symbolize details of puzzle that called "Creativity" Anastasiya Sovashchenko Director & Producer Dmitry Litvinov - DOP Dmitry Schebet - Choreographer Julia Orlova - Production designer Oksana Markina - Stylist Liza Zelenova - MUA

ZONE 74 film by Mollie Wolf (c) 2021 USA

A dance film set in an eerily familiar post-apocalyptic world, in which a lone woman persists with delightfully illogical whimsy and hope. Mollie Wolf - Director Katie O'Loughlin - Dancer The Barry Sisters - Music Michael Wall - Music

Here There film by Nathan Velazco & Anna Bauer

Here There depicts an individual trapped within the confines of overthinking during the creative process and follows her struggle to escape its repetitive and cyclical nature. Nathan Velazco - Director Anna Bauer - Choreographer & Dancer

Glass pointe film by Andjela Tončev (c) 2021 SERBIA

Blanka, an up-and-coming ballerina is forced to choose between her health and her dream after a major spinal injury. Andjela Tončev - Director & Writer Ivan Pešukić - Producer Blanka Pavela - Dancer Lazar Vučković - Cinematography Rastko Ubović - Editing Maksym Kostenko - Sound design

I Needed To Listen film by Katie Phelan (c) 2020 USA

“I Needed to Listen” utilizes research conducted in the history of trauma stored in the body. Through the intersection of film and dance, it offers a movement conversation in different experiences of racial trauma and how those might be perceived. This investigation worked with the implicit reactions of its collaborators to define the movement, camera perception, and editorial choices in its completed iteration. Katie Phelan - Director Darrius Gray II - Dancer Kara Bouck - Dancer Trevon J Coleman - Videographer Auden Lincoln-Vogel - Production Assistant

Run 滲む film by Sakurako Shibata (c) 2020 JAPAN

Establishing identities. 2020 - enclosed body and mind. Two women revolving an inner world. Sakurako shibata - Director, Choreographer, Dancer, Camera & Writer Kyoka Igarashi - Dancer & Camera Takuya Shioda - Camera Yu sammy - Music

Going Nowhere film by Lucy Clark (c) 2021 UK

This film depicts how loneliness provokes a sense of being lost in darkness, intrusive thoughts often resurfacing, your mind going round in circles, feeling like you are going nowhere. Lucy Clark - Choreographer, Performer, Director & Editor Janine Clark - Cameraman

A Mother's Soliloquy film by Cameron Kostopoulos (c) 2019 USA

A recovering alcoholic must make a moral inventory in order to reconnect with her estranged son. Born out of personal experiences, "A Mother's Soliloquy" combines visual poetry with an original score to explore my own tumultuous relationship with my mother. Best played loud. Cameron Kostopoulos - Director, Writer & Visual Effects Daphne Daniels - Producer Lana Nguyen - Cinematographer Dancers - Kamilah Barrett-Forster & David Grannum Supporting Cast - Asia McNair, Aurora Vaughan, Jonathan Kim, Sara Crossman, Maddie Martin, Matthew Perko, Anthony Tette & Seehon Gil Prateek Rajagopal - Composer Zach Manske - Choreographer Jordan Fox - Set Design & Construction Helen Morales - Production Designer Hope Abel - Costume Designer Mary Zhang - Hair & Makeup Jordan Halsey - Projectionist Jaimie Beebe - Casting Director Israel Gomez - 1st Assistant Director Caden Hollander - 2nd Assistant Director Karlie Teruya - Stage Manager Mikayla Davic - Script Supervisor Gao Yang - Photography Stage Operators - Alexis Tran, Vasilisa Belokon, Leah Zhao, Charlie McCollum, Isabella Donato, Corey Tablan, Ethan Denning, Doug Kerner, Erik He, Ryan Zhang, Aidan Bates & Gabriel Gaurano

If These Walls Could Talk film by Madison Price (c) 2021 USA

"If These Walls Could Talk" was directed and choreographed by Madison Price and inspired by a conversation with her dance professor, Stephen K. Stone. This film was created to honor dancers' growth and the inside jokes they share which impact their life beyond the studio walls. This is the first dance film Madison has created, and she is excited to explore and improve upon this medium for representing her creative works and ideas in the future. Created for the UA Little Rock dance program DANCE FILM Residency Choreography 2 course. Madison Price - Director Stephen K. Stone - Key Cast Kiara Willis - Dancer

GETTING THROUGH - A Virtual Creation film by Ashley Lindsey (c) 2020 USA

A virtual creation in collaboration with the students of Kanyok Arts Initiative in NYC. All footage used in the creation of this film was capture entirely by the dancers. The choreography and direction were also done remotely. This version is an excerpt of a longer 11 minute work. Kanyok Arts Initiative is a pre-professional training program for performers age 13 - 18. The program prepares emerging artists to meet the demands of collegiate and creative endeavors through performance and collaborative experiences. Getting Through is an abstract narrative looking at the various stages of isolation and the emotions associated. Oftentimes in life, we are faced with challenges that test our strengths. The question is how do you get through? Ashley Lindsey - Director & Editor Laurie Kanyok - Producer Keira Flemming - Dancer Ava Lieber - Dancer Caroline Macleavey - Dancer Anna Verutes - Dancer Hailey Flemming - Dancer Arielle Telfort - Dancer Wyatt Florin - Dancer Aydin Eyikan - Dancer Nicole Lewandowski - Dancer GiGi Sanford - Dancer

The Dybbuk Film by Nichole Waldron (c) 2021 USA

Created for the UA Little Rock dance program DANCE FILM Residency Choreography 2 course. Nichole Waldron - Director, Dancer & Editor

I Lost Myself film by Izzy Catterall (c) 2020 UK

My film explores the experience of feeling 'lost', both physically mentally, due to COVID-19 and quarantine. It also delves into that rusty, awkward and less fluid sensation when attempting to dance/move/improvise at recent times due to being home-bound for so long. The film also touches on how I have spent this time during lock-down to reflect on myself and the world in much more depth, and I have found myself appreciating everything much more, in particular the environment. It has put everything into perspective more, and has made me appreciate (even more than I already did before) how we need to conserve and look after the world we live in and the creatures we coexist with. Izzy Catterall - Director, Writer & Producer

And You See Me film by Emily Shapiro (c) 2019 USA

The collective Body Shift, and the Austin VA Dance Troupe ask the questions, who can be a dancer and what can dance look like? A portrait of the mixed-ability improvisational dance community in Austin, TX. Emily Shapiro - Director

TUTTI by Scott Cook (c) 2020 USA

"Tutti" is a joyful celebration of the marriage of two classical arts, featuring original neoclassical ballet choreography to "Zeffiretti Lusinghieri" from Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Scott Cook - Director Shayla Bott - Producer Ana Brooks - Dancer Ryan Lambert - Dancer