Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema is one of Boulder’s longstanding favorite arts organizations, and we’re so happy to return to one of our most beloved venues, the Boedecker Cinema at Dairy Arts Center for two separate programs this fall — Dancing on the Planet and Dancing as Ourselves.
Join us for a very special “locals’ only” screening…Colorado films of many kinds will pepper this lineup, representing the diverse dancers of the Front Range and mountains, of various ages, abilities, and styles. We are proud to return to the Boe to share the films created in our unique, ongoing Community Dance Film Project. The project began in 2021 when our Artistic Co-Director Michelle Bernier created the first Community Dance Film, “This Breath Together,” with 17 local dancers in iconic landmark sites around the city of Boulder. The project continues with professional dancer/choreographers Keith Haynes and Megan Roney, each taking the helm to direct their own dance films for the first time. These films will be accompanied in the lineup by several new selections for our upcoming 2024 season, as well as local films from our archive. Directly after the screening, you’ll have a chance to connect with attending filmmakers in a Q&A and interactive discussion, followed by complimentary refreshments in the lobby.
Dancing on the Planet is a curated dance film screening featuring shorts from the Hong Kong, France, the Bahamas, Japan, Austria, Thailand, Iran, the US and the UK, and it will remind you just how small you are, and how big this world can be. This collection of art shorts includes humorous, ingenious, site-specific, and narrative dance films repositions the viewer in relationship to the Earth, and connects our bodies to the places we call home, near and far. Through a multitude of dance forms, including ballet, contemporary, krump, and even the undefined, this screening illustrates that the range of humanity’s expression is as vast as the range of environments on the planet.
Dancing as Ourselves features shorts from the Canada, China, France, Russia, Romania, Ireland, and the US, and will remind you how similar we all are as humans across the globe, yet how different we can be. This collection explores the various aspects of being human as reflected by the body and movement. Through a multitude of dance forms, including ballet, contemporary, underwater acrobatics, and forms yet to be named, this screening illustrates that the range of humanity’s expression is as vast as the range of bodies we inhabit.