Sans Souci at DSA Int'l Conference 2021

Virtual Screening for Conference Attendees
Presentation: Oct 17 9:30-10:30am EST
Screening Available: Oct 17 9:30am - Oct 18 11:59pm EST

Online - Dance USA Conference

Program Below.

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SSF @ DSA - Brazilian Films Selection

EXUFRIDA, 2019, Brazil, 6 min

Directed by Cicero Fraga

Produced by Silvio Cohen

Choreography by Raquel Karro

Featuring Instrumento de Ver

Dancing by Beatrice Martins

Music Composed by Luis Oliviéri

Cinematography by Alan Schvarsberg

In 1997 an out-of-control truck crashed into a bus that carried part of the Flamengos gymnastics team, the base of the Brazilian national team. Beatrice Martins fractured both feet. She can no longer compete, but she turned her recovery into a dance.

Sandbox (Caixa de Areia), 2020, Brazil, 3 min

Directed by Diogo Angeli

Produced by Diogo Angeli, Eduardo Pereira

Choreography and Dancing by Diogo Angeli

Music Composed by Diogo Angeli

Cinematography by Eduardo Pereira

The Sandbox screendance reflects subjectively on human confinement/isolation. Stuck in a box, we can only deal with the traces of our own conscience.

Covert (Encobertos), 2019, Brazil, 6 min

Directed by Lilian Graca

Produced by Lilian Graça

Choreography by A coreografia é um trabalho conjunto entre a diretora e os dançarinos.

Dancing by Amanda Savitri, Bernardo Oliveira, Danilo Lima, Renan Bozzeli

Music Composed by Marcelo Sena

Cinematography by Lilian Graça

Concepção coreógrafica by Lilian Graça

"Covert" elaborates the idea of a "space between" in an approach that deals with the surface plane to unveil and enter the deep field of the screen. The video thus has the objective of discussing the kinesthetic involvement of the viewer, in which its focus of engagement is triggered by the dynamics between the distances and the movement of moving away and closer to the camera and the dancers. In this way, “Covert” experiences the flow between surface and screen depth as a field of perceptual and body passages.

Dancing the limitation (Dança em tempos de limitação), 2020, Brazil, 2 min

Directed by Ayumi Hanada

Choreography by Ayumi Hanada

Dancing by Ayumi Hanada, Giovanna Herrera, Isabela Bertô, Marcela Cibin Ugo, Melissa Baba e Renata Paulino.

Music by Gustavo de Angelis

Cinematography by Ayumi Hanada, Giovanna Herrera, Isabela Bertô, Marcela Cibin Ugo, Melissa Baba e Renata Paulino.

I involuntarily question myself about my limits and limitations. I provoke myself to feel them, respect them and often cross them.

Migrant Gaze (Olhar Migrante), 2020, USA and Brazil, 3 min

Directed by Ana Baer, Julia Ziviani

Produced by Bruno Harlyson

Dancing by Ayumi Hanada, Casemiro de Paula Barsalini, Cléo de Paula, Fernando Vitor, Flávia Pinheiro, Júlia Ferreira, Lais Taufic, Robson Lourenço, Victoria Travitzki

Music Composed by Joaquin Lopez Chas

Filmmaker: Ana Baer

Cia Eclipse Cultura e Arte Direction by Ricardo Cardoso (Kiko Brown) e Ana Cristina Ribeiro

Groupo Dançaberta Direction by Julia Ziviani

An intimate look at the Immigrant experience focusing on issues of identity, belongingness and displacement through the language of dance. Shot in Campinas, Brazil in collaboration with Dançaberta and Eclipse Cultura e Arte.

Dancing not to forget (Dançar para não esquecer), 2019, Brazil, 6 min

Directed by Karina Almeida,

Choreography by Karina Almeida

Dancing by Karina Almeida and Tutu Morasi

Music Composed by Rodrigo Vasconcelos

Filmmaker: Trindade Media

Each gesture bears memories that are updated in the here and now. Presence is a present, something that comes to life every time one dances so as not to forget.

Erêkauã, 2021, Brazil, 1 min

Directed by Paulo Accioly

Produced by Estranha Força

Choreography by Ernane Ferreira

Dancing by Kauã

OST by Igor Peixoto

Kauã dances in the hill, like a bird of prey.

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Rio Cor de Rosa, 2019, Brazil, 7 min

Directed by André Rosa

Choreography by Clébio Oliveira

Featuring Companhia de Dança do Teatro Alberto Maranhão

Dancing by André Rosa, Gabriela Gorges, Gustavo Santos, Juarez Moniz, Julia Vasques, Marghot Lima, Tatyelli Raulino, Will Gomes

Music Composed by Wim Mertens / Terje Isungeset / Antony And The Johnis / Electric President / Glen Hansard e Marketa Iglova

Cinematography by André Rosa

The body claims more than is ever its right to, intervention and alteration, it is action in constant motion, in search of different spaces, even if it suffers from the marks of the past. Memories lead us to our old dwellings, internal pains, external smiles, psychic violence and other paths. Every place, a new river and different waters.

Street (Rua), 2019, Brazil, 3 min

Directed by Barbara Cunha, Mary Gatis

Choreography and Dancing by Inae Silva

Music by DJ Dolores

Cinematography by Renato Stockler

Looked at the living room. She saw herself in prison. A beautiful hanging cell.Forty meters from the ground. The bright blue from the box. Strange voices in the air, dulling the senses, sucking all your air. The voice emanating from the box. Tell her what to do: Food, clothes, desire. Where to go, what to think. She goes to the street. She wants to dance. She dances naked. She's get in on and breaks everything. She the chaos master. There is no gas to stop Your Carnival.

Women's Threads, 2017, Brazil, 10 min

Directed by Maria Fernanda Miranda, Paulo GCMiranda

Produced by Mandra Filmes

Choreography by Renata Lima

Featuring Mulheres de Linhas

Dancing by Maria Fernanda Miranda, Tainá Barreto, Ladyjane Macedo

Music Composed by MESTRE SEBASTIÃO RODRIGUES PEREIRA

Music Performed by -

Cinematography by Diego Zanotti

Edited by Paulo GC Miranda

In the scrublands of Gerais, amid crooked trees, flowery Ipês and airborne dust, there is a female universe of threads created and maintained by the hands of women of various ages. World of many hands. World of threads. Women of threads who, in spinning, weaving, and embroiderers, with their landscapes, webs, circles, needles and looms, their songs, create living entanglements in the form of female narratives and hand movements

SSF @ DSA - International Films Selection

photo by Ross Riege

SAND, 2010, USA, 10 min

Directed by Cari Ann Shim Sham*

Produced by Kyle Ruddick, Cari Ann Shim Sham*

Choreography by Kenji Igus, Darrow Igus & Cari Ann Shim*

Dancing by Darrow and Kenji Igus

Cinematography by DP-Ross Riege, additional by Phillip Abrams & Kyle Ruddick

Edited by Cari Ann Shim Sham*

Sound Design by T.K. Broderick

"Sand," a short experimental dance-for-camera documentary, tells the story of sand dance as it is passed down from father to son.

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Advance, 2010, USA, 3 min

Directed by Mitchell Rose

Produced by Jamey Hampton, Ashley Roland, Mitchell Rose

Choreography and Dancing by Jamey Hampton, Ashley Roland

Featuring BodyVox

Music Composed by William Goodrum

Filmmaker: Mitchell Rose

One dance. Two minutes. Fifty locations.

photo by Luke Rothschild

Grey Shanty, 2008, Venice, CA, USA, 6 min

Produced and Directed by Holly Rothschild

Choreography by Holly Rothschild

Featuring Strange & Elegant Choreography and Performance Installations

Dancing by Greg Barnett and Jeremy Hahn

Music Composed by String Theory

Music Performed by Stuart Johnson and Luke Rothschild

Shot & Edited by Hugh Swingle

Two lovers struggle with the impending end of their relationship.

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OF THE HEART, 2007, USA, 6 min

Directed by Douglas Rosenberg and Allen Kaeja

Produced by Douglas Rosenberg

Choreography and Dancing by David Dorfman and Lisa Race

Music Composed by Arvo Part

"Of The Heart" is a tender and moving duet for the camera that slowly unfolds in a windblown field in late fall. The film speaks of longing and desire and is a richly metaphoric movement portrait. The performance by Dorfman and Race is heartfelt and honest, stripped to its emotional core.

Gatha, 2018, China, 16 min

Produced and Directed by Chenglong Tang

Choreography by Chenglong Tang

Featuring N/A

Dancing by Zibo Geng, Shifei Chen

Music Composed by Margot Reisinger, PIKLANS, Hubert von Goisern

Music Performed by Existence, PIKLANS, Hubert von Goisern

Cinematography by A Luo, Chan Fu

Edited by Xiaoxiu Guo, Chan Fu

Gatha tells the story of two Tibetan brothers’ prostrating pilgrimage to Mount Kangrinboqe, or Mount Kailash, where the elder brother unfortunately dies on the road. With his late brother's last wish, and in spite of all the trials and tribulations, the younger brother finally arrives at the Holy Land, alone, grieved, but fulfilled. His journey continues, as a new cycle of life begins.

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DYNAMITE, 2018, United States, 7 min

Directed by Leila Jarman

Choreography and Dancing by Maceo Paisley

Music by Michael Sempert

Cinematography by Ariel Pomerantz

Edited by Leila Jarman

A short, poetic performance art/dance film that investigates gender and masculinity --more specifically the American black male experience-- through embodied inquiry to find spaces where identity exists between and in opposition to social constructs. This film guides us through narrative incorporating movement, spoken word, and chant, as it uncovers truths about race, gender, and success in an ever-changing social landscape.

Let's Dance, 2010, USA, 2 min

Produced and Directed by Malia Bruker, Oscar Molina

Choreography and Dancing by Eun Jung Choi, Guillermo Ortega Tanus

Featuring Da Da Dance Project

Music Composed by Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli

Music Performed by Miles Davis and the Lighthouse All-Stars

Filmmaker: Malia Bruker, Oscar Molina

"Let's Dance" is a sensual black and white film that captures the relief that dance provides in everyday life.

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Stopgap in Stop Motion, 2016, United Kingdom, 5 min

Produced and Directed by Stephen Featherstone

Choreography by Lucy Bennett

Featuring Stopgap Dance Company

Dancing by Amy Butler, Laura Jones, Nadenh Poan, Chris Pavia, Hannah Sampson, David Toole, David Willdridge, Tomos Young

Music by Dougie Evans

Filmmaker: Stephen Featherstone

Performers in disabled and non-disabled dance company "Stopgap" move in and out of photos and across tabletops until the whole company meet and perform in unison.

Flatland, 2017, Iran, 15 min

Directed by Alireza Keymanesh, Amir Pousti

Produced by 33 Projects

Choreography by Alireza Keymanesh

Music Composed by Peter Pir Hoseinlou

Cinematography by Peyman Kermani, Kasra Bordbar

Camera Operation by Amir Pousti

"Flatland" has been made based on a book of the same name written by Edwin Abbott in 1884, which describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures. The narrator is a square named A Square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. On New Year's Eve he visited by a three-dimensional sphere named A Sphere, which he cannot comprehend until he sees Space land (a tridimensional world) for himself. This experimental short film has come out of a group exhibition under the collective title "Flatland," curated by Ms. Golbarg Barzin. The exhibition comprised works by seven other artists in various fields of art, such as sculpture, painting and visual art.

photo by Hanna Korhonen

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Animalz, 2006, UK, 3 min

Directed by Sergio Cruz

Produced by Ed Cooper

Choreography by JP Omari

Featuring B3 Brighton BBoys

Dancing by B3 Brighton BBoys

Music Composed by Sergio Cruz, Filipe Galante, Christos Fanaras

Cinematography by Martin Gajewski

Sergio Cruz's film "Animalz" takes the urban B-Boy Skills of Brighton and Hove's B3 Boys into the city's surrounding natural landscapes. Co-choreographed by BBC Strictly Dance Fever's JP Omari, the sixteen 8-14 year-old dancers were encouraged to bring out the animal in themsleves. Shot on location in Brighton at Stanmer Park, Devil's Dyke and Telscombe Beach.

InterState, 2018, United States, 6 min

Directed by Ilana Goldman , Gabriel Williams

Choreography and Dancing by Ilana Goldman

Featuring N/A

Music Composed by Patrick McKinney

Music Performed by Patrick McKinney and Greg Sauer

Cinematography by Gabriel Williams

Edited by Ilana Goldman

This short dance film features a mysterious and ambiguous masked figure embodying both animalistic and human characteristics as it travels across the country in search of home and self. InterState is an investigation of identity, migration, and displacement, set against the backdrop of America’s most dramatic and dynamic landscapes. From Seattle and St. Louis to Mt. Rushmore and variously magnificent national parks, InterState explores the connection (or lack thereof) between living organisms and habitat, at every turn questioning the idea of a “natural environment.” What do we carry with us when we move—literally? Each new location, each new scene provides an opportunity for the soloist to unearth a symbiotic way of moving in relation to the environment while simultaneously maintaining a sense of self, physically holding onto idiosyncrasies regardless of place, space, or time. By the film’s end, the audience is caught up in the soloist’s journey, bound to the rhythmic sense of timing created as the singular body carved space—and identity—in each terrain it inhabited.

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Making Men, 2019, Belgium, 10 min

Directed by Antoine Panier

Produced by Dunia Dance Theatre

Choreography by Harold George

Featuring Dunia Dance Theatre

Music Composed by Glen Velez, Murcof, Vivaldi, Peter Broderick

Cinematography by Antoine Panier

Making Men examines the question of masculinity. This dance film zooms in on 4 individuals in the process of becoming men. As is expected, they proceed unquestioningly into manhood through various stages of their lives, adopting the clearly coded characteristics allowed by society. However, a feeling of unease, in the very depths of their being, oppresses them. They feel uncertainty but also something else, harder to define… Shot in the breathtaking landscape of Zimbabwe, the film features strong and rhythmical choreography but also a special camera work that intensifies emotions inspired by the movement.

Meaghan McHenry dancing like her old man.

Dancer Meaghan McHenry

Dance Like Your Old Man, 2006, Australia, 10 min

Directed by Gideon Obarzanek & Edwina Throsby

Produced by Chunky Move in association with Chequerboard Productions

Featuring Chunky Move

Dancing by Meaghan McHenry, Sara Black, Alexandra Dillon, Bec Reid, Penelope Bartiau & Ros Warby

Music by various artists

Cinematography by Cordelia Beresford

Editing by Simon Njoo

Six unseen fathers come to life through their dances as imitated and reflected on by their daughters.

SILENT PLACES, 2013, Romania, 12 min

Directed by Simona Deaconescu

Produced by Anamaria Antoci

Choreography by Simona Deaconescu

Featuring TANGAJ DANCE

Dancing by Dragos Istvan Rosu, Razvan Stoian, Irina Stefan, Alexandra Balasoiu, Simona Deaconescu

Music Composed by Tibor Cari

Cinematography by Oleg Mutu RSC

Edited by Codrin Iftodi

The camera bursts into the heart of the dance while the music copes with the cruelty and fever of everyday's warfare.

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