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Sans Souci @ Age Well Center 2025:
Dance is Like a Fine Wine
part of our creative Aging Program
Cohosted by Boulder Older Adult Services.
Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 1:30pm
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema offers a unique event with brand new films making their SSF debut, designed to introduce viewers to dance film, connect artists with audiences, and encourage movement and artistic expression in the community. This line-up in particular was curated so that older viewers can see themselves represented onscreen and gain exposure to different methods of movement creation and filmmaking. This in-person event will consist of a dance film screening, a facilitated group discussion, and a dance class designed for movers of all mobility levels and types. Learn more about our creative aging program, Dance is Like a Fine Wine.

If you love what you see, join us for this year's premiere, Labor Day weekend 2025, for all new films, live performance, installations, and more!

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Ode to Age, 2024, Finland, 8 min

Directed by Kati Kallio
Produced by Aino Halonen, Kati Kallio
Choreography by Kati Kallio and dancers
Featuring Myrskyryhmä
Music Composed by Janne Laine
Cinematography by Arttu Peltomaa
Edited by Kati Kallio
Color Grading by Aki Huttunen
The film portrays how wild, free and beautiful the aging body is, how pointless the fear of wrinkles and skin folds is. "Ode to Age" is a dance film about elderly women who have had enough of the colorlessness of life. Together, they take off their everyday clothes and by joyful and undisciplined throw themselves into the Finnish summer.

Lake Song, 2024, Australia, 13 min

Directed by Sue Healey
Choreography by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman and dancers
Featuring Canberra Dance Theatre's GOLD dancers
Music Composed by Benjamin Walsh
Cinematography by Richard Corfield, Ken Butti
Edited by Sue Healey
"Lake Song" grew out of site-specific meditations and movement improvisations at Mirramu Creative Arts Centre and on the lakebed of Weereewa/Lake George, NSW, Australia. After twenty years of dry, we dance to celebrate the return of the water to Weereewa/Lake George. Canberra Dance Theatre’s GOLD dancers are 55 years and over. With an enviable national and international reputation, they challenge community stereotypes of who older people are and what they offer to society. "Lake Song" is the culmination of extensive work they have done with national dance treasure Elizabeth Cameron Dalman and the second project they have done with award winning filmmaker Sue Healey.

hOURS, 2025, Germany, 10 min

Directed by Lisa Magnan
Produced by Daniel Bucurescu, La Gradiva
Choreography by Lisa Magnan
Featuring Daniel Bucurescu & La Gradiva
Music Composed by Daniel Bucurescu
Cinematography by Julien Penichost
"hOURS" is an international encounter project between France and Germany, marking the 60th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty, bringing together humans, countries, generations and art. Created by Lisa Magnan & Daniel Bucurescu between March and June 2024, "hOURS" offered dance and music workshops for people aged 60+ in Lyon, as well as for young people in Hamburg, in order to accomplish artistic creations together. Opening "hOURS" artistically, the dance film is the culmination of a community-journey: it empowers non-professionals from both groups as performers ("Les Sixties“) and sound artists ("die Youngsters“).
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