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SSF & RS Jazz with Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop 2023


Irey Theatre in Theatre & Dance Building
This season we’re offering a screening of our new selections from our first-time-ever Jazz Dance category, including films that explore jazz and American social dance ideas from forms including but not limited to tap and hip-hop styles. Crafted in collaboration with Rhythmically Speaking Dance and our new friends at Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop, this selection encourages artists to join the ongoing conversation around ‘what constitutes jazz and American social dance,’ and the sociocultural histories of and innovations in these styles. Don’t miss your chance to see these films before anyone else, and catch a Q&A with presenting artists!


Boulder, CO

Old Man At The Corner Store, 2023, United States, 8 min

Directed by Nadav Heyman, Anabella Casanova
Produced by Cheryl Mann, Collin Del Cuore
Choreography by Nadav Heyman & Cheryl Mann
Featuring
Dancing by Zoe Rawlings, Fen Del Cuore, Mher Khachatryan, Adrian Dela Rosa, Nadav Heyman, Donte Cooley
Executive Producers by Sage Price, Anabella Casanova
An elderly man crosses paths with the neighborhood mischiefs.

Deconstructed, 2018, United States, 4 min

Directed by Alexis Robbins
Choreography by Alexis Robbins
Featuring kamrDANCE
Dancing by Ginny Mottla, Alexis Robbins
Filmmaker: Andrew Cashin
Assistant Direction by Leigh Schanfein
Breaking down rhythm, sound, and texture through the lens of friends in rehearsal.
Frame from RadioBody

RadioBody, 2021, United States, 13 min

Produced and Directed by Erinn Liebhard
Choreography by Erinn Liebhard
Dancing by Nieya Amezquita, Doug Hooker, Amy Jones, Sara Karimi, Erinn Liebhard, Kelli Miles Kathleen Pender
Cinematography by Cully Gallagher
Musical Arrangement by Mike Lauer
Drone and Additional Camera by TJ Tronson
RadioBody is a collaboration with composer Mike Lauer exploring the jazz sensibilities and human toil and triumph embedded in the work of pioneering alt-electronic band Radiohead.

Heartbeat, 2023, United States, 2 min

Directed by Henry Graham
Produced by Jennifer Tisdale
Choreography by Henry Graham
Featuring American Dance Artists
Dancing by Hannah Patrick, Henry Graham
This film explores the history of jazz where black and white bodies illustrate the beauty of dance, origins of the communication of movement with classic lines, improvisation and social dance forms and the blurred lines between the forms. Music is the soul is for jazz movement, historically. At the core of this style is the rhythmic patterns that is emotionally felt in the body and we created a short film - "Heartbeat" - to illustrate cinematically the various forms and to respect the lineage of the African beat. Not only is it rooted in tap to reveal rhythmically the sophistication of jazz dance, there is a titillating look at the lines of jazz dance with the seamless lines of architecture of the historic urban building as well as the isolations of the male body vs female body along with the integration of races of the artists. It begins with the blurred grey lines of the history and then opens up to color to highlight the evolution, musicality and syncopation of the movement.

To: Everything I Love, 2023, United States, 13 min

Directed by Anthony Morigerato
Produced by Anthony Morigerato, Kurt Csolak
Choreography by Anthony Morigerato and Makayla Ryan
Featuring
Dancing by Chantelle Good, John Manzari, Logan Evan Thomas
In the not so distant future, a young woman is falling in love. She enlists her personal A.I. system to decide if the relationship is worth it.

Tenets, 2023, United States, 4 min

Directed by Taylor Madgett, Lawrence Beard
Produced by Taylor Madgett
Choreography by Taylor Madgett, Constance Harris
Featuring
Dancing by Constance Harris, James Solis-Gutierrez, Becca Schaff, Taylor Madgett
This high energy piece features a fusion of Afro dance, House and Hip-Hop dance styles. Through an exploration of these dance forms, this piece seeks to establish American street dance as a direct extension of West African culture.

Regret To Inform You, 2022, United States, 12 min

Directed by Yusuf Nasir
Produced by Yusuf Nasir, Harvey Mason Jr.
Choreography by Yusuf Nasir
Featuring
Dancing by Yusuf Nasir, Steve Geist
Why are our fantasies so far removed from our reality? "Regret to inform You" follows a difficult day in the life of a Performer on the verge of forced obscurity and retirement. After one too many rejections, he becomes undone, retreating into a black and white dance fantasy to combat the reality of a society that has no place for him.

Twin Cities, MN

Old Man At The Corner Store, 2023, United States, 8 min

Directed by Nadav Heyman, Anabella Casanova
Produced by Cheryl Mann, Collin Del Cuore
Choreography by Nadav Heyman & Cheryl Mann
Featuring
Dancing by Zoe Rawlings, Fen Del Cuore, Mher Khachatryan, Adrian Dela Rosa, Nadav Heyman, Donte Cooley
Executive Producers by Sage Price, Anabella Casanova
An elderly man crosses paths with the neighborhood mischiefs.

Deconstructed, 2018, United States, 4 min

Directed by Alexis Robbins
Choreography by Alexis Robbins
Featuring kamrDANCE
Dancing by Ginny Mottla, Alexis Robbins
Filmmaker: Andrew Cashin
Assistant Direction by Leigh Schanfein
Breaking down rhythm, sound, and texture through the lens of friends in rehearsal.
Frame from RadioBody

RadioBody, 2021, United States, 13 min

Produced and Directed by Erinn Liebhard
Choreography by Erinn Liebhard
Dancing by Nieya Amezquita, Doug Hooker, Amy Jones, Sara Karimi, Erinn Liebhard, Kelli Miles Kathleen Pender
Cinematography by Cully Gallagher
Musical Arrangement by Mike Lauer
Drone and Additional Camera by TJ Tronson
RadioBody is a collaboration with composer Mike Lauer exploring the jazz sensibilities and human toil and triumph embedded in the work of pioneering alt-electronic band Radiohead.

Oh, Excuse Me., 2018, United States, 6 min

Directed by Matthew Olwell & Emily Oleson
Choreography and dancing by Matthew Olwell & Emily Oleson
Featuring Good Foot Dance Company
Two dancer-clowns explore eccentricity, compromise, agreement and disagreement, and the ever-human desire to be seen.

To: Everything I Love, 2023, United States, 13 min

Directed by Anthony Morigerato
Produced by Anthony Morigerato, Kurt Csolak
Choreography by Anthony Morigerato and Makayla Ryan
Featuring
Dancing by Chantelle Good, John Manzari, Logan Evan Thomas
In the not so distant future, a young woman is falling in love. She enlists her personal A.I. system to decide if the relationship is worth it.

Tenets, 2023, United States, 4 min

Directed by Taylor Madgett, Lawrence Beard
Produced by Taylor Madgett
Choreography by Taylor Madgett, Constance Harris
Featuring
Dancing by Constance Harris, James Solis-Gutierrez, Becca Schaff, Taylor Madgett
This high energy piece features a fusion of Afro dance, House and Hip-Hop dance styles. Through an exploration of these dance forms, this piece seeks to establish American street dance as a direct extension of West African culture.

Regret To Inform You, 2022, United States, 12 min

Directed by Yusuf Nasir
Produced by Yusuf Nasir, Harvey Mason Jr.
Choreography by Yusuf Nasir
Featuring
Dancing by Yusuf Nasir, Steve Geist
Why are our fantasies so far removed from our reality? "Regret to inform You" follows a difficult day in the life of a Performer on the verge of forced obscurity and retirement. After one too many rejections, he becomes undone, retreating into a black and white dance fantasy to combat the reality of a society that has no place for him.