EXPS/SLC Screening #6: International Screendance Shorts
From one-take choreographies, docu-dances, site-specific screendances, and cut out paper animation dances, this program of international screendance shorts shows the breadth of screendance interests currently being created in the field.
Tuesday February 21 at 7:30pm. Union Theatre, 200 Central Campus Drive, Salt Lake City. All programs are free and open to the public. For more information about EXPERIMENTAL SERIES – SALT LAKE CITY and upcoming screenings visit IG @exps.slc
Northside Throwdown (2012, video, 6:00min), dir. Kenna Cottman & Kevin Obsatz
A mother-daughter conflict is explored through Senegalese Wrestling-inspired dance along Broadway Avenue in North Minneapolis.
DANCE DANCE EVOLUTION, dir. Jules Rosskam (2019, video, 17:40min)
Dance, Dance, Evolution is a short documentary film exploring transgender people’s relationship to dance. Specifically, the film looks at how shifting ones gender might cause shifts in how one dances, whether or not one feels comfortable dancing, and how dance may highlight an individual’s internal experience of gendered embodiment. Dance, Dance, Evolution will feature a wide array of transgender people, including those whose gender evolution has resulted in moving from loving to dance to feeling like they can’t dance; never dancing to sometimes dancing; loving to dance with others to only dancing alone; never dancing with others to always dancing out at clubs. The film is about exploring people’s relationship to dance, rather than dance itself.
Red Line , dir. Irishia Hubbard (2021, video, 7:18min)
The flight or flight response to trauma in bodily form. Red Line examines the resilience of a Black woman in the face of allostatic load. Her reality is multidimensional, and her existence challenges the redlining of her identity.
6018|Dance, dir. Kioto Aoki (2022, 16mm to Video, 8:00min)
A dance film playing with the malleability of dance, movement, documentation, cinematography and choreography.
vinght-cinq kilomètres, dir. Marie Lévêque (2022, video, 10:02)
An experimental one-shot dance short film.
Scoring Sites I, dir. Stella Mastorosteriou (2021, video, 5:34min)
Scoring Sites is a series of videodances on the interrelations of urban space and the bodies that inhabit it. Through a series of choreographic scores which engage the dancing body in the research of various public spaces, we study the built environment of the city and attempt to find new ways to relate to it. It is a journey into rediscovering our own city and reclaiming our own space in it. Scoring Sites 1 was created in YMCA square in Thessaloniki.
Pavilion, dir. Adam Sekuler & Shannon Stewart (2014, Super 8 to Video, 3:26min)
An imagined spectacle, rodeo iconography, the feminine body, the equine body, dressage.
ARCH, dir. Jeremy Moss & Pamela Vail (2020, video, 5:03min)
A song of glowing hypnotic layers. The proscenium dissolves. A solo performer moves through undetermined space. The dancer and the sequence melt into multiple movers, positions and perspectives. They transcend time, place and individuality. The deconstruction of hierarchy begins with conscious collaboration. Here, both the performer and the editor are choreographers.
IN THE FUTURE, dir. Kelly Gallagher (2021, video, 3:39min)
Knowing that another world is possible, individuals young and old share their hopes and dreams for the future.