Short Dance Film Exhibition

short dance film exhibition

• “Alone”

“Alone” is an improvisational duo based and constructed by a renowned poem of Edgar Allan Poe. Pure, one on one improvisation. Not a single note edited – not a single move had been added or edited in the dance as well. Nothing has been thought in advance… Not even the length of it… Musician following the body, while a move followed back the sound. It is a way of showing how one’s body and one’s instrument can move together in time and space creating a common aura and a dance pattern on stage, which is expressing nothing more, but a physically free and emotionally filled movement. Touching ones inside depths of loneliness and a hopeful strive towards salvation.

 

Idea: Natia Bunturi

Dancer: Natia Bunturi.

Viola: Giorgi Zagareli.

Production Crew: Silk Factory Studio

 

• “Vieni”

The body tries a dialogue with a friend who has left but who lives through

her reminiscence.

Production: Daniela Lucato/Connecting Fingers Company

Regia &Script: Daniela Lucato

Direction &Script: Daniela Lucato

Photography & Colour: Jacopo Pantaleoni

Dancer: Chiara Franco

Aerial Photography: Lorenzo Busi, Lorenzo DePoli, Marco Savini

Editing: Daniela Lucato

Music: Reverie di Ross Bugden

 

 

• “Eboly”

Eboly is the second part of the triptych. It shapes the reality of a female presence,  absent in a space, at times present in an empty space, both remain the same space.  infinity is experienced, as a state of mind. She plays and there are no consequences. She gets bored create Everything is fun, but there is no way out.

 

Credits:

Original idea: Les Primes

Camera: Ivanna Sol, Pedro D’agosto, Jeremy Antoine le Beherec

Edit: Jalb Films, Gabriela Madeira

Sound design: Pato Estrada

Soundtrack: Woody Pines

Choreography: Gabriela Madeira

Dancer: Bruma On Fly

Make-up artist: Maria Grau

Thanks to Boogaloo Tanzstudio Berlin, Catnapp & Funkhaus

 

• “Enter to the dance”

A girl plays, a doll plays, an empty body plays alone in front of a dark mirror. She is a question, she tries, she sits down again. All is fun but there is no way out.

 

This is the first episode of a “Triptych of a dancing woman”- Triptych of a dancing woman, is an audiovisual piece in 3 parts.  In each part there is a woman who looks like a girl, who may be a mannequin, a doll ,   or a shadow. she plays alone, she investigates the limits of her environment and her own body, and discovers herself uninhabited. She gets caught up in her game, she takes risks, falls down and sits up again. She cannot distinguish what belongs to her body, her mind, or the urban biosphere. She is plastic trash and she drowns. She is tension and the contrary. She is revolution and stillness. She is a question to her own self.

 

Credits:

Direction: Pedro D’agosto, Gabriela Madeira, Jeremy Le Beherec, Ivanna Sol

Scriptwriter: Ivanna Sol

Dancer: Bruma on fly

Choreographer: Gabriela Madeira

Camera: Jeremy Antoine le Beherec, Pedro D’Agosto, Ivanna Sol

Edit & Color grading: Studio Zero

Stylist & Make-up artist: Maria Grau

Music design: Studio Zero

Produced by: Boogaloo Tanzstudio, Studio Zero & Jalb films

 

• “Betonhimmel”

Betonhimmel shows a search for a blue sky within an overwhelming concrete landscape. The film was shot in East-Berlin, using the slowly vanishing GDR architecture as a background. Lukas Steltner is using a twisted perspective, as an expression to deal with the heritage of the country he was born in but does not exist anymore.

 

Idea, Concept and Performance: Lukas Steltner

Video & Cinematography: Christopher Hönninger

Music: Antonio Vivaldi – Filiae meastae Jersusalem, RV: II. “Silent Zephyri”, interpreted by: Philippe Jaroussky & Ensemble Artaserse

 

• “Votary”

This film installation departs from the idea of replacing the sense of self responsibility onto an external body. A body that extend and transforms itself into an authority, being that an object of devotion, such as a golden calf or a technological icon.

From studying methods of increasing the autonomy of artificially intelligent robots and the crafting methods in the creation of iconic religious figures, Votary focuses on the human fascination of creating external representations of its kind in religious frames.

Through referencing rites we see a devoted body that is going through rituals of deliverance, worshiping apparatuses and wired metallic forms that further becomes data as seen in the found footage over layered.

Human behavioural studies used as templates for how the “machine” should behave are the core movement research displayed in this solo performed by Gustavo Gomes. A body relearning how to move from an artificial intelligence perspective. Using historical analogies, the body performs a ritual of bringing an offer for a creator made by the its own creation, resulting in a freeze static motion where a summoned entity not see on camera enters the room.

The viewer is embedded in a place of worship, where they witness a body twists, breaths, articulate and enters in trance states, alluding on how we could use bodies as images to create reflections on what are our rites and icons today. Votary is a three chapter series filmed in Langen Foundation, KOLUMBA and PiK Deutz Cologne Sponsored by the NRW Stipendium

 

Directed and performed by Gustavo Gomes

Filmed by Haris Ajrulahi

3d figure by Dominik Geiss

Music by Civic Grace

Filmed at Kolumba Museum Cologne

Supported by Tanz Köln

 

• “WrCs(A)cle”

My interest in working with the body in water comes from the realization that, although water was every person’s natural environment when in the womb, so many of us acquire discomfort and fear of suffocation when in the water later in life. In this choreographic work, I push beyond my own struggles with this fear to find the calmness and beauty of swimming and remaining in the water, away from the noise and hectic pace of modern life. The circular movement of the water, spiraling my body. Twirl my body as the wind spiraling the leaves. Reminding me the seasons changing..the climate awareness, the final surrender?

 

Concept/Idea: Maria Mantia Papathanasiou

Performer: Dimitra Nousi

Camera: Maria Mantia Papathanasiou

Video editing: Philippos Evangelou

 

• “11th House”

“11th house” is one of the tributaries of the personal search path that makes me feel like I am a child of a unified world. A world that is constantly trying to take care of me (us). The key is to listen to his voice and read his messages correctly. It is unfortunate that people often do not understand his benevolence and that all obstacles are necessary for our growth. This video shows the way to get rid of the past and cleanse yourself from low vibrational frequencies. It is a return to the original energy that solely and exclusively serves our spiritual well-being and is cleansed of all negative implants that prevent us from feeling unconditional love and spreading it. We must enable ourselves to be happy and to love the freedom within ourselves, the freedom on which forgiveness is based, which in turn generates new and sincere waves among people.

 

Author and performer: Tata Tavdishvili

Co-direction, Video, editing: Giorgi Mkheidze

Music: KATYA CHILLY-Яблінька

• “Salome”

According to the New Testament, the daughter of Herodias, received on her mother’s commands, the head of John the Baptist. Salome has become a symbol of dangerous female seductiveness, a figure of fear and power.

Inspired by this story, this film portraits a series of “deceitful” women that used their bodies to lure and attract men to their demise, portraying both the victim and the criminal as men.

As portrayed, one of criminals, Aileen Wuornos claimed that her victims had attempted or raped her while she was working as a prostitute, and that the homicides were committed in self defence in the woods of Florida. An audio of her confessions describing the seven killings is heard as a background sound as fantastical representations of the audio are shown on screen.

Adding to this puzzle is The Lorelei, a famous German folklore tale about a female siren that sitting on the cliff above the Rhine river, combs her golden hair and attracts shipmen with her beauty and beautiful voice. They follow her gaze and die crashing their boast on the rocks.

The film reflects on several ways that religion, media and society portraits women as demonic symbols, from the story of Adam and Eve to contemporary conflicts that are still to be solved.

 

Directed, written and performed by Gustavo Gomes

Editing, Sound and camera by Thomas Kielbasinski

Music original track by TO5Z

Die Lorelei, sung by Richard Tauber

Written by Heinrich Heine

Composed by Friedrich Silcher

On set coordinator, Dayana Sturm

 

• “Meden agan – Nothing in excess”

“Meden agan. Nothing in excess. I do not know if we are immoderate or one-sided since our excessive greed. Excess is the same as being insane. Remember. Meden agan

 

Director: Yerin Lee (yenn_dance)

Performer: Yerin Lee (yenn_dance)

Assistant: Nuri Koh

Music: Lucy Is Going Out Pt. 1 – Eric Serra, Lucy Is Going Out Pt. 2 – Eric Serra, Glass Bridge (Inst.) – Savina & Drones

 

• “Epiphany”

Relationships between the beings who inhabit the stage are the starting-point of endless explorations inside bodies and minds. As they zoom in and out, we embark on a journey from microscopic impressions to macroscopic feelings as huge as… the most grossly misshapen of superlative realities. This world of psyche and emotion, with rules that are both strict and organic . It got me thinking about Epiphanies and how often they show up in our lives. A light turns on, we have that aha moment where a realization hits home in a way it hasn’t before. It’s enlightening and can be life changing. What we do with the Epiphany — the awakening — is what matters, right? The doing looks different for everyone. Sometimes the doing is not actually “doing” anything. It’s being the Epiphany. Living the realization, one day, one hour, one moment, one second at a time.

 

Dancer: Natia Chikvaidze,

Composer: Anushka Chkheidze

Camera/editing: Saba Shengelia

 

• “On My Way 11.11”

Video On my way 11.11 serves several purposes at once. In addition to the aesthetic and intellectual load, it should feel like a jolt for us all to move independently forward during this Covid-19 pandemic. Whereas the concept of this video is mainly built upon a searching path for spiritual progressions within oneself, the evoked state of being as bodily incarnation is often manifested with different emotions and sentiments, but the hope for enlightenment is always the leitmotif in this all.

author and performer: Tata Tavdishvili

Co-direction, Video, editing: Giorgi Mkheidze

Music: Ndrx & Kancheli – Frosty Emotions

 

• “Improvisation with Guitar Strings”

Once when i was in academy and listening my playlist, suddenly my youtube app started to play this song,and it was new for me (the moment when you first hear the song),and it looked like the guitar string was painting in this room and i thought how interested it would be if i mixed my feelings,this song and interior together..How it would look like if my body would be a guitar string in a several styles..

author and performer: Ana (Anina) Lebanidze

 

• “The One I keep”

Played in reverse, Guerra’s film The One I Keep questions the secrets we withhold versus the multitude we share, and is told through the eyes of a solo performer caught in the turbulence of thousands of flying paper notes.

With social media becoming an ever-increasing force in our lives, it’s easy to let the world know more of our personal secrets than one might realize. This film, created from the real-life online journals of the artist (complete with a few secrets never publicly shared) toys with this concept of revealing oneself to the world. The hope for this film is to encourage viewers to reconsider their own expressions of revealment. What are the secrets we keep? The thoughts we share? Are we aware of how quickly our words take on a life of their own and fly away from us the moment they leave our lips? Let’s take a moment to hold onto that one secret only we know…the one we keep.

 

CREDITS:

Choreographer / Filmmaker: Merli V. Guerra

Performer: Jessica Chang

Music: Marcel McVay

© Luminarium Dance Company, 2013

 

• “Dance Free, Dance Everywhere”

In everyday life we are surrounded by constant sounds. With those sounds we dive into a timeless race. My research looks at a different time concept, a time in which you are the variant. The choice is to stop. Stop in any place, listening, observing and why not, dancing! Leo Delibes’ fantastic music – Dome epais (Flower Duet from Lakame) represents inner tranquility, calmness, listening. All accompanied with everyday sounds that identify the time that passes, in an ordinary parking lot, and the frenzy of a society that never stops. Dance is union and freedom. Dance free, dance everywhere.

 

Credits:

Story Editor: Martin Angiuli

Video: Christopher Schmidt

Performer: Martin Angiuli

ConTrust Collective M.A.

 

• “SHE KNOWS”

The short film “She Knows” is a visualisation of our inner disbalance and tells about the ambivalence of the universe and humans as a part of it. I wanted to emphasize a question of the struggle we have daily on a level of unconsciousness and how hard we try to conquer and unite our different poles. Often the splitted mind and body becomes mysterious and even dangerous and the main character of this film aims to understand this kind of universal law, experience it and transform into the main instinct of survival.

 

Director, editing, performer: Xosilita

Cameraman – Kevin Fong,

Intro Music by Elene Erreli. Choreo Music – J Cole

 

• “Trilogy”

Trilogy is a journey through three moments: from the childhood to the adult world

characterized by the control and subordination processes around the body and the

possible approach to a new sexuality.

 

Director/Producer/Script adaptation: Daniela Lucato

Original Script: Sara Fortuna

Dancers/Performers: Nicola Campanelli Roberta Ricci Giulia Fani

Music:David Travers

Camera:Jacopo Pantaleoni

 

• “Stay Where You Are”

“I am here, and you are there.​

The invisible giant lines are dividing my moments,

The invisible moments are creating another me.

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As if we are invisible or not,

As if we can feel each other or not,

As if we are together or not,

We are waiting for the next now – here and there.”

The film is about COVID-19 and Zoom (Online conference platform). It aims to describe how people feel during the lockdown and online meeting on Zoom. The screen keeps divided, changed, and moved by editing based on dancers’ movements and emotions.

 

The title, ‘Stay Where You Are’ is inspired by the public order from the Korean government,

when the Sewol Ferry Disaster happened on 16 April 2014.

 

When the Sewol Ferry started sinking, the government announced that they saved all people from the Sewol Ferry and there were no casualties. However, there were 304 people on the ferry at that moment and the government kept saying “Stay there and Wait” to the people. The disaster caused 304 passengers and crew staffs died. Approximately, 172 survivors were saved by fishing boats and other commercial vessels,

not the national maritime police. People have criticised the irresponsible President and her government in various ways, including artworks, films, performances, and poems.

 

COVID-19 is also a disaster that people have to stay at home. It caused many people’s deaths and also has changed people’s lives a lot. People are staying where they are and waiting for the end of the situation.

Producer / Filmmaker: Yerin Lee (yenn_dance)

Dancers: Emma Ericsson, Jeemi Son, Ella Oxley, Yeonsoo Do, Shakira Leannee

Music: Heesook Seo (Naseul sound), Wooram Song – ‘Unknown

• “Maids”

This one-woman dance film portrays a maid who finds joy and intrigue in the radionovelas she listens to while she cleans. Featuring nostalgic music and stylized filming, the short is a whimsical homage to the fantasies that get us through the day.

 

Directed and written by: Sofía Castro

Producer: Delfina Cocciardi

Sound Design: Mercedes Gaviria Jaramillo

Cinematography: Alberto de la Espriella

Dancer and choreographer: Julieta Ferraro

Voices: Loreley Ramirez, Pablo Trucco, Edgardo Rosini

Music: Los de Seda

 

 

• “The Men Who Travelled Nowhere in Time”

Through the eyes of Eytan, a man who only exists in the dreams and unconscious minds of others, we question what is “real”, what isn’t and how we each perceive time differently.

Created & Choreographed by Kyra Jean Green

Director: Vincent René-Lortie

Cinematographer: Alexandre Nour

Editor: Guillaume Marin

Sound: Nataq Huault

Art Director: Geneviève Boiteau

Music: SHXCXCHCXSH & Franz Schubert

Colorist: Simon Boisx

1st AC: Antoine Ryan

Gaffer: Juliette Lossky

Grip: Jean-Francois Gauthier

Graphic DEsign: JB Proulx

Dancers: Kyra Jean Green, Alexandre Carlos, Charles-Alexis Desgagnés, Brittney Canda, Janelle Hacault, Geneviève Gagné, Emmanuelle Martin.

This project was supported by Danse à la carte & Festival Quartiers Danses.

 

• “SEX IN TRANSLATION”

The Performance SiT explores the symbolic diversity of human sexuality using the concept of translation in a provocative and ironic way. The idea that sex is deeply embedded in the construction of gender identity and even more generally in the construction of social identity in all its varieties (sex, race, age, etc.) is at the core of Judith Butler’s reflection on queer identities which defy normative heterosexuality and proudly assume the stigma of abjection homosexual subjects are submitted to (thereby inversing it as tool of political fight).

In the short article “Gender” (published in the American version of VEP) Butler originally uses Laplache and Pontalis’ psychoanalytic conception of children exposition to – and constitutive misunderstanding of – adult sexuality suggesting that our sexuality is the result of the translation of the cryptic and somewhat menacing

messages our parents and the whole adult world sent to us about it during childhood. The Performance stages on the one hand an interaction between two adults in which sexuality is deformed and deconstructed in all its main traits – especially gender stereotypes (in dance, dressing etc.) and the violent dimension of pornography as a representation of the patriarchal dominance in its late capitalistic version. On the other hand, the translation of sexuality is performed by a child giving her back to the adult performers and freely reproducing patterns of what she is feeling/ imagining/dreaming about their performance. In the infantine translational games, sexuality shows at the best its connection with an omnipotent desire in which oppositions between good and evil, pleasure and pain, activity and passivity seems to blur in a continuous metamorphosis of forms and senses. In the adult translational games the specific disturbance produced by the entrance into chaos, tensions and contradiction is embodied in a series of metamorphosis and interactions.

 

Author: Sara Fortuna

Dramaturgy, choreographer: Daniela Lucato

Dancers/Performers: Nicola Campanelli, Roberta Ricci, Giulia Fani

Music: David Travers

 

 

• “Blossom”

Bodies bathed in secrets. Hearts filled with silence.

Lives covered under veils in the name of conversion. Unspoken sentences. Feelings and words trapped in the back of the throat. Forbidden looks, hurtful silences. Strangling screams, crystallized in the emptiness of time and darkness. Whispers of freedom daring in the anguish of what will never be.

Candles are lit … the movement is born in soft light.

Birds circle the windows. Sneak in their gaps.

Fates that seemed to be settled are no longer certain.. Hairs flow in the wind… Smiles are reborn.

Freedom is way lead by the sound of their own voice. Arms wide open to enclosed dreams. Regrets remain in the past and give way to rebirth and transformation.

A new era is in place … It’s a new day and a new light shins over the city.

Strenght emerges from poetry.

 

Produced by: CERCI Braga & Mosaico – Plataforma de projetos inclusivos artísticos e educativos

Written and Directed by: Ana Caridade

Interpretation by: Banda do Mundo (O Mundo Somos Nós – Associação) | Lyrics by: Moncho Rodrigues | Music by: Narciso Fernandes

Vídeo: Framework Lab

Photography: Manuel Correia

Design: HMDesigner

 

• “Hyper Hygienic”

Hyper Hygienic is a contemporary dance performance, focusing on fine dust (air pollution), which is a severe problem in Korea and China every year – occurring Asthma, respiratory or cardiovascular disease.

This work raises the seriousness of environmental pollution and also shows the contradictory attitude of human beings towards the environment, which should be developed and conserved by human beings.

Choreographer: Coco Yeonsoo Do

Performers: Yerin Lee and Coco Yeonsoo Do

Music Composer: Callum Stephens

Voice-over: Samuel Pappon

Dramaturgy: Yerin Lee and Byongrok Loki Kim

Lighting Design: Coco Yeonsoo Do and Byongrok Loki Kim

Media Marketing & Photographer: Lea Gyuri Park

Poster Design: Songwon Han

Venue: The Place, London, UK

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• “Gender Production Line”

Α voice comes to one in the dark. Imagine. To one on his back in the dark. Αnother trait the flat tone. No life. Same flat tone at all times. For its affirmations. For its negations. For its interrogations. For its exclamations. For its imperations. Same flat tone. You were once. You were never. Were you ever? Oh never to have been! Be again. Same flat tone.

Human is the only extant member of the subtribe Hominina (Homo sapiens). It is characterized by erect posture and bipedal locomotion; open-ended and complex language use compared to other animal communications; and a general trend toward larger, more complex brains and societies.

Human is uniquely adept at using systems of symbolic communication (such as language and art).

Most aspects of human physiology are closely homologous to corresponding aspects of animal physiology.

The human brain is believed to be more “intelligent” in general than that of any other known species.

Like any other creature, human is a highly social being and tend to live in large complex social groups.

Human conforms to some kind of sexual reproduction. Human has hormones, androgen, estrogen, internal reproductive organs, external reproductive organs. Human has sex. Human has genital sex. Human has gender. Ηuman has gender identity.

Human can move voluntarily and independently.

Human cοntains muscles, nerves, α digestive system with one or two holes.

Human consumes other οrganisms in order to survive.

Human has gender role.

Human is self-defined.

Human is male.

Human is female.

 

creation & interpretation: Angelos Papadopoulos

video: Katerina Tsakiri

music: Rafailia ‘Raflak’ Bampasidou

National School of Dance, Athens

 

• “Woman on background”

Woman on background is a title used in Western painting to represent a figure against a

background. I have chosen this topic as a metaphor of the role of women in art history, seen as

an anonymous object of desire, without identity and a passive involvement as a subject.

Director: Melanie Olcina

Edition: Ainara Nieves

Music: Artomatico.

 

• “Homo”

Homo makes visible the intimate experience of a human being that inhabits an interior space, private and reserved for the solitude of a single inhabitant. The room, as a metaphor of the original house, is the image of lost intimacies. The Homo privatus seeks through an act of introspection the encounter itself, the awareness of its corporeality, that is, of a certain identity. surrounds In this case, we describe the epidermal and visible layer of the human being, his body, natural expressions, the memory of a personal history, the visual representation of a

collective history with stereotyped, iconic, mystified and idealized bodies. Homo is

the epiphany of a narcissistic act, of a metamorphosis.

 

Direction: Melania Olcina

Interpretation: Alejandro Moya

Edition and assembly: Juan Carlos Toledo

Sound Design: Idan Shimoni

Color grading: Frodo García Conde

Thanks: Ainara Nieves

Collaboration: Peoples in Art

 

• “Bang”

A man and a woman exploring closeness – and the ambiguity of its different aspects. BANG is a dance movie about the difficult search of intimacy in a mechanical and ineffective choreographic structure.

Credits:

Performance: Jan Vesala & Antoinette Helbing

Choreography: Antoinette Helbing

Film/Editing: Jan Vesala

 

The project is supported by Tbilisi City Hall.

Project partner: Insurance Company ARDI.