Program A: Saturday, Jan. 28 at 4:00 & Sunday, Jan. 29 at 6:00

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.

the promise, 2015, Canada, 5 min

Directed by Jason Karman

Produced by Robin Chan, Jason Karman, Sean Arden

Choreography by Nicolo Fonte

Featuring Oregon Ballet Theatre

Dancing by Avery Reiners, Chauncey Parsons Hildestad

Music by Stefan Smulovitz

Cinematography by Stirling Bancroft

Edited by Jason Karman

Stereography by Sean Arden

Set in an open field, two men travel together, exploring the romantic connection they share and the sacrifices made to achieve personal fulfillment. Funded by: Dance Film Association, National Film Board of Canada, Emily Carr University, The Dance Centre, Like Minded Media and LNG Studios

CEA, 2006, Canada, 4 min

Directed by Robert Prowse

Produced by Dominique Keller & Andrea Pass

Choreography by Andrea Pass

Dancing by Jocelyn Hebert, Carrie Innes, Tina Kettyle, Joanna Norris, Kate Pakarnyk, Andrea Pass, Beryl Tsai Poon

Music by Cedric Blary & Colin Maier

Cinematography by Lisa Fryklund

Picture Edited by Erik King Smith

"CEA," a film without words draws us into a captivating sensory experience. The slow, melodic rhythms and quiet energy of this film offer a powerful dichotomy to the frenetic pace of today's dominant urban culture. The movement flows with the grace of poetry, to an original score that takes us back, through our collective rural history.

Training Session, 2010, Canada, 6 min

Directed by Christian Lalumière

Produced by Émilie Heckmann

Choreography by Hélène Blackburn

Dancing by Roxane Duchesne-Roy, Daphnée Laurendeau, Pierre Lecours, Susan Paulson & Georges-Nicolas Tremblay

Music composed by Nicolas Bernier

Cinematography by Jonathan Decoste

Edited by Thiery Laberge

A simple workout routine is transformed into a ballet where the athletes fit together like the notes of a symphonic musical score and rhythmic repetition punctuates the resulting dance.

Ward of State, 2014, Australia, 29 min

Directed by Sarah-Jane Woulahan

Produced by Claire Marshall

Choreography by Claire Marshall

Featuring Claire Marshall

Dancing by Richard Causer, Chafia Brooks, Libby McDonnell, Mariana Paraizo

Music composed by Susan Hawkins

Music performed by Collusion Music Australia

Cinematography by Kevin Holloway

Edited by Jane Wallace

Story and concept by Claire Marshall

This dramatic and powerful narrative about a girl made a ward of the state is based on Claire Marshall's own family history research.

Program B: Saturday, Jan. 28 at 6:00 & Sunday, Jan. 29 at 4:00

MELT, 2010, USA, 10 min

Directed by Noémie Lafrance

Produced by Natalie Galazka

Choreography by Noémie Lafrance

Featuring Sens Production

Dancing by Elizabeth Wilkinson, Mare Hieronimus, Teresa Kochis, Celeste Hastings, Adi Kfir, Meghan Merrill, Marcy Schlissel, Sarah Donnelly

Music composed by Erin McGonigle

Music performed by Brooks Williams

Cinematography by Bryan Newman

Edited by Brad Turner

Beeswax Costumes by Noémie Lafrance

Rigging Design by Spencer Evans

Costumes slowly melt away from dancers precariously perched and wrapped in sculptural beeswax and lanolin. Inspired by the Melt live performance work, "Melt" depicts a delicate, sensual, and dramatic experience of the physical body in exile and surrender.

Moving Southwark, 2015, UK, 5 min

Directed by Jevan Chowdhury

Produced by Rosie Wells

Choreography by Kai Tomioka

Featuring Wind & Foster

Dancing by Bryony Harrison, Emma Farnell Watson

Music composed by Danny Odom

Cinematography by Charlie Herranz

Edited by Jevan Chowdhury

Part of the "Moving Cities" project to investigate cultures and peoples via dance, this film is a take on the "dying moments" of 24 dancers, each consumed by London.

Black Train is Coming, 2011, USA, 3 min

Produced and Directed by John T. Williams

Choreography and dancing by eNinja & Joyntz Scott

Music composed by Rev. J.M Gates

Cinematography by James Tucker

Edited by John T. Williams

Blending an old time sermon with modern day Flex/Turf dance style, this film is based on the 1926 exhortation, "Death's Black Train is Coming," by the prolific black preacher, Rev. J.M. Gates, many of whose sermons were strong warnings of the hellish punishments that awaited sinners.

Singeries, 2015, Canada, 7 min

Directed by Priscilla Guy and Catherine Lavoie-Marcus

Produced by Mandoline Hybride

Choreography and dancing by Priscilla Guy and Catherine Lavoie-Marcus

Filmmaker: Priscilla Guy and Catherine Lavoie-Marcus

Special effects by Antoine Quirion Couture

An abstract duet in which ordinary and agreeable dancers turn into automatons, beasts, objects in free fall, and primates.

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Less, 2016, USA, 10 min

Directed by Erika Randall and Daniel Beahm

Produced by Daniel Beahm and Erika Randall

Choreography by Erika Randall

Dancing by Dancer: Samantha Lysaght

Music composed by Liszt Rossignol, The Blue Waltz , sound design: Jonas Bendsen

Music performed by Emily Levin (arrangement and performance)

Filmmaker: Daniel Beahm

2nd camera by Laffrey Whitbrod

Costume by Markas Henry

Wearing a dress made of memories, a solo dancer explores notions of nostalgia, sensation, and grief as she moves through virtuosic phrases and theatrical vignettes. Photographs are clipped into and released from the skirt, the costume physically and metaphorically replicating notions of emotional scrapbooking and loss. Inspired by Randall’s aunt’s struggle with Bulbar ALS, “Less” borrows gestures from a body that is deteriorating at a rapid pace while the mind still grasps at an active, vibrant, and sensual history.

Subsurface, 2015, Finland, 7 min

Directed by Thomas Freundlich

Produced by Lumikinos Production

Choreography and dancing by Jussi Väänänen & Katja Koukkula

Music by Kimmo Pohjonen

Filmmaker: Thomas Freundlich

Costume Design by Jenni Ahtiainen

Archaic elements of nature are metaphors for the multiple levels of a relationship.

A Touch of Red, 2013, UK, 11 min

Directed by Emile Shemilt

Choreography by Nicole Guarino

Featuring Scottish Dance Theatre

Dancing by Solène Weinachter, Joan Clevillé

Music composed by Genevieve Murphy

Cinematography by Steven Crichton

Edited by Emile Shemilt

Sound Recording and Mix by Aaron Ahrends

Production Management by Anna Rathband

A relationship is revealed through performative and cinematic patterns, rhythms and expressions.

Frame from METUBE 2 AUGUST SINGS CARMINA BURANA

METUBE 2 AUGUST SINGS CARMINA BURANA, 2016, Austria, 6 min

Directed by Daniel Moshel

Produced by Daniel Moshel, August Schram

Music composed by Carl Orff

Cinematography by Arturo Delano Smith

Edited by Christin Gottscheber

Performers by August Schram and Elfriede Wunsch

After Elfie and her nerdy son August successfully proved themselves on their home webcam in MeTube 1, the odd pair venture onto the street to present the biggest operatic flash mob the internet has ever witnessed!