DANCE Festival - Sept. 2/3 event
Educational, Independent, Special Interest, Short Films
See the Full Lineup of Films:
ENTRE 2 EAUX (IN BTWIN 2 WATERS), 5min., France
Directed by Caroline RAGUSA, Sylvain BES
Chiara is standing there, alone with herself, until she meets Nero, her double and her opposite at the same time. This story is a deep immersion at the root of our origins, an ode to life.
https://www.carolineragusa.fr/
https://www.facebook.com/Caro2eaux
https://www.instagram.com/caro2eaux/
S A L O P I C A, 8min., Canada
Directed by Serenella Sol, Callum McCormack
Amidst the vibrant colours and rhythmic beats of Venezuela, a young woman uncovers her passion for dance. But as she struggles to conform to society's rigid beauty standards, she embarks on a disorienting and tumultuous journey of self-discovery, leaving her country, culture and innocence in a violent and abrupt awakening.
THE SEED OF TIME, 5min., USA
Directed by Paula Nunez, Tiger Tao
A lapse of time has a before and after of the time in question. Everything has its beginning and end, nature’s order of time for all types of beings. But in truth, all life is impermanent, ever changing in constant motion, making the idea of now an illusion. But what of those things that do not move, the lifeless, the inanimate? The dancers will translate "the illusion of now" into reality, by breaking the routine with their dance, to be implanted in the spectator's memory.
http://www.tampacityballet.org/
https://facebook.com/tampacityballet
https://instagram.com/tampacityballet
SISTER, 12min,. USA
Directed by Quinn Wharton
A dance film exploring the perils of fitting in. We follow a young woman entering into a ritual experience to join the group she aspires to be a part of. Struggling with the experience she finds it difficult to know if she's doing the right thing or merely conforming.
THE LINES IN BETWEEN, 11min,. USA
Directed by Georgia Usborne
Struggling with writer's block, a woman moves through surreal worlds to discover the ebbs and flows of creativity.
https://www.paulrabinowitz.com/the-lines-in-between
TONARI, 17min,. Japan
Directed by Ben Tarquin
When her mirrored reflection comes to life, a dancer caught between Tokyo and San Francisco must embark on an epic chase to find herself. TONARI is a cross-cultural, cross-generational story that explores race and mixed identity through narrative, dance, and jazz music.
http://wearetonari.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wearetonari/
THE MIGRANT BODY, 12min., USA
Directed by Paula Gil Higa, Cal Hopwood
This film examines human migration through the creative lens of PH Dance's Artistic Director, Paula Higa. Deriving from her personal experience as a dual citizen of Brazil and the United States, Higa researched various motives for individual displacement. People migrate for many reasons, from new life experiences to security, from demography to human rights, and from socio-economic grounds to climate change. Thus, this performance focuses on the meaning of self-discovery by uncovering physical geography, the gap between past and present, and the sense of not having a home. Dancemaker Paula Higa proposes a reflection on who is not a migrant in this world.
http://www.paulahiga.com/
https://www.facebook.com/PaulaHigaDance
https://www.instagram.com/phdanceers/
GLOAMING, 10min., Sweden
Directed by Alana da Silva
A winter dance duet between two souls moving in and out of each other’s worlds.
WORK IT OUT, 9min., Hong Kong
Directed by Marie Yi-Qing Bouvéron
Resilience through Imagination: An ode to Hong Kong. A journey in between a disheartened and a virtual world.