Thinking choreographic movement for the camera

Illuminated - dance films

Schedule:

Friday, 21.09.2012, 20:00 | Kino Udarnik
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12 SKETCHES ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF BEING STILL

UK, 2010, 9’
Director: Magali Charrier
Choreography: Magali Charrier
Performers: Selina Papoutseli & Tom Lyall

This film is a collection of experiments in animation and editing exploring the spaces where nothing happens: the liminal zone that exists between you and me, between here and there, sound and silence, movement and stillness

KAROHANO

South Africa, 2008, 8’55
Director: Jeannette Ginslov
Choreography: Jeannette Ginslov and performers
Performers: Thiami Manekehla, Thabiso Pule & Haja Saranouffi
Music: Scorn, Gamana, Ganga Giri & James Brown.

Karohano was first performed as a live dance work by Inzalo Dance & Theater Company at the Market Lab Johannesburg, 2007. Director Jeannette Ginslov approached the company wanting to create a dance video. This way, Karohano became a collaborative dance video between three male dancers form Madagascar and South Africa. A fusion of video technology and urban dance energy that depicts aspects of African male identity, political satire and ironic gestures.

A.P.A.A.I.

Spain, 2005, 10’
Director: Guillem Morales
Choreographer and performer: Erre que erre
Based on an original idea by Guillermo Weickert
Music: Martin Fuks and Vitor Joaquin

APAAI is an invitation to create the ideal atmosphere for the observation of details – a state of consciousness that lies somewhere between reality and dreams and allows us to cross the boundary freely and without fear. It captures the kind of moment in which an element of everyday experience crumbles and reveals the strangeness of being alive. A delicate, fragile moment like the delirium of fever that only medicine can help us overcome, when possible but highly improbably actions materialize.

BREAK

UK, 2005, 5’
Directors and choreographers: Billy Cowie and Liz Aggiss
Performers: Thomas Kampe, Music: Billy Cowie

In the wilderness of Dungeness, where the natural and the nuclear meet for small talk, Master Thomas is taking the air. As he rambles he spies something unusual and decides to investigate.  Break (from the Middle English): 1 an interruption of continuity. 2 a short period of recreation or refreshment. 3 a tract of ground of distinct appearance. 4 an opportunity, a chance…

120 GRADOS

Spain, 2008, 5’49
Director: Juanjo Fernández
Choreography: Ricardo Salas
Performer: Ricardo Salas
Music: Huete

A dance solo in space that is virtually empty, consisting just barely of music and light. A dancer explores the expressive capacity of the moving body, as the camera selects, discards and highlights particular shots and gestural motifs. Video breaks the visual continuity of dance, in order to tell us – in the words of J. Thurber – let us not look back in anger, nor forward with fear, but around in awareness.

ANIMALZ

Portugal/ UK, 2006, 4’
Director: Sergio Cruz
Choreography: JP Omari
Sergio Cruz, Performers: b3 – Brighton youth dance company

Animalz is an exuberant fantasy in which boys emerge from the sea, like the original amphibians, and colonize a forest, marking out their territory in a break-dance celebration of Nature and her feral sons.
The film takes the urban B-Boy skills of Brighton and Hove’s B3 Boys into the city’s surrounding natural landscapes, where the sixteen 8-14 year-old dancers were encouraged to bring out the animal in themselves in their energetic performances.

EN CADENA

Spain, 2008, 5’
Director: Hammudi Al-Rahmoun
Choreography: Juan Carlos García.
Performers: Yester Mulens and Olga Clavel
Music: Xavier Maristany

A short, tender story in which lifeless beings come to life, connecting with themselves and with the person in front of them. Two dancers break the mechanized automation of a working group and manage to involve them all in a group choreography and a strong communicative and human power. "En cadena" is the name of this evocative irruption of dance in a production line consisting of mentally handicapped workers.