Festival Premiere Installations
La Fée Électricité (The Goddess of Electricity) , 2026, United Kingdom, 8 min
Directed by Cottia Thorowgood
Produced by Charles Haswell
Choreography and Dancing by Viola Pantuso
Featuring The Royal Ballet
As daylight falls, La Fée Électricité (The Goddess of Electricity) awakens beneath Paris, charged to bring light to the streets above. As she begins to move, she galvanises her power and emerges onto the streets of Paris, illuminating the city with electricity. By dawn, having danced all night her electric powers are overwhelmed by the daylight. By morning, her powers are extinguished. This is a short dance film filmed on location in Paris, featuring Royal Ballet soloist, Viola Pantuso. The story is built on the concept of "La Fée Électricité" - the personification of electricity in France in the late 1800s, as a woman, or fairy, who brought light and power to the people and streets.
Sheltering Gestures, 2026, Colombia, 11 min
Directed by Adrián Villa-Dávila, Andrés Prado
Produced by Tragaluz
Choreography by Javier Serpa
Featuring Danzas y Enseñanzas de Mis Abuelos
Written by Adrián Villa Dávila
“Sheltering Gestures” is a videodance that traces the ritual and spiritual movements revived by a group of young dancers who witnessed the gradual disappearance of the traditional Danza de las Tabliteras. Determined to bring it back to life, they learned its rhythms and choreography from the four remaining elders who still carried the dance in their bodies. Once again, these gestures echo the movements that decades ago filled the community of San Antonio, Bolívar, with pride, vitality, and collective spirit.
The Year of the Green Snake, 2025, United States, 5 min
Directed by Ioulex
Choreography by Xin Ying
Dancing by Ying Xin
Music Composed by The Grand Hotel
Costumes by Christian Joy
Martha Graham Company’s principal dancer Xin Ying embodies the spirit of the snake in a fluid metamorphosis. Drawing on themes of rebirth and reinvention, the dichotomy of repulsion and seduction, Ying’s dance improvisations evoke the Snake-woman motif in Chinese folklore and the Sorceress Medea in Graham’s “Cave of the Heart.”
The Broken Cycle, 2025, Hong Kong, 3 min
Directed by Andreas Guzman
Choreography by Annabelle Lopez-Ochoa
Featuring Hong Kong Ballet
Dancing by Xuan Cheng, Renjie Ma
Cinematography by Tsun Man Silas Chow
Edited by Justin Ho
Story by Andreas Guzman, Zachary Babrowsky
Color by Daryl Leng Jun
An endless cycle. A dance of stagnation. A relationship's rhythm, caught in a relentless tide, is about to break.
Frost and Flame, 2025, Macao, 3 min
Directed by Lampo Leong, Yanxiu Zhao, Dan Wang
Produced by Lampo Leong
Choreography by Dan Wang
Featuring University of Macau and Jianghan University
Dancing by Changle Wang
Music Composed by Jeffery Stolet, Yanxiu Zhao
Filmmaker: Haozheng Wu, Yanxiu Zhao
Digital Ink Video, Installation and Stage Design by Lampo Leong, Yanxiu Zhao
Photography by Lampo Leong, Haozheng Wu
According to scientists, global warming may bring severe consequences to the future of humankind, and addressing this environmental crisis requires the collective effort of people across all nations. The digital ink–generated video art installation and dance performance “Frost and Flame” employs the textures of ink painting techniques and a visual language of geometric abstraction, combined with a color transition from cold to warm and a stylistic shift from structured geometry reminiscent of frozen ice to gestural abstraction evocative of water and fire. Together, these elements metaphorically portray the transformation of glacial ice as it melts—from frost to flame—issuing an urgent warning to humanity. In the final sequence, the re freezing of the text credit symbolizes the hope that, through unified human action, restoration remains possible. The integration of ink painting with environmental consciousness not only brings this classical art form into contemporary discourse on global ecological issues, but also allows Chinese cultural aesthetics to manifest renewed vitality in the digital era. Meanwhile, the immersive installation and dance performance reflect the profound wisdom embedded in classical Chinese culture and underscore the responsibility borne by humanity today.
Yellow Sand, 2025, China, 3 min
Choreography by 黄潇
Featuring Hello Dance
Based on Wang Changling's frontier poem "From the Army," the film tells the story of war during the prosperous Tang Dynasty in China. Torches illuminate the depths of the cave, revealing ancient cave paintings that vividly depict the alternation of prosperity and war, recording the lives of early humans. When prosperity collides with war, countless small families are torn apart. At the end of the film, a white image symbolizes civilization, though it is cyclical, the club of life is reborn from destruction. So, what exactly has war brought to the world? It has prompted people to think.