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A Dance Between the Built Environment and Wilderness
"Painted" is the first in a trilogy of screendance films about a tug-of-war with wilderness. This particular film explores a building’s decay. The choreography and original score are both in decrescendo to illustrate the building’s retreat from the physical world, and nature's advance on it.
Directed by Duncan McDowall. Choreographed and Performed by Dorotea Saykaly. See more of McDowell's work here.
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Bodies in Motion
Instead of marginalizing the dancer in the urban landscape, choreographer Dominique Palmobo uses the landscape to highlight her relationship to her surroundings.
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Bodies in Motion
Set to Martin Luther McCoy's cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," Ramaa Mosley's film features people dropping their momentary burdens to move their bodies.
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Bodies in Motion
Orthodox Jewish men performing moves on the streets of Jerusalem.
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Bodies in Motion
A young Chinese dancer performs the role of conscientious objector, moving through the pedestrian and the abstract to deliberate the question “to fight or not to fight.”
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Bodies in Motion
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According to André Grekhov's mother, he's been breakdancing to Michael Jackson and MC Hammer since he was 3 years old in the Soviet Union.
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Bodies in Motion
Directors, Del Mak and Patrick Ryder offer viewers a glimpse into a dancer's emotive escape from what confines him.
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Bodies in Motion
Kathy Rose discusses her early days in African dance to her adoption of flamenco with a Japanese edge.
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Dancers rebel against the management in this politically-changed film by the Kuperman Brothers
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