Silent Imprints

Harry Brooks

Silent Imprints explores movement’s ability to communicate a performer’s inner feelings and emotions, using the body as a form of language beyond the confines of words. The structured improvisation enables performers to express and reveal personal memories and internal conflicts through movement. The choreography explores an ability to break the notion of the position, creating an authentic way of moving. The film was created to highlight male fragility, focusing on a young man, who is for whatever reason experiencing a transition period in his life. The work is deliberately ambivalent exposing the viewer to observed and unconscious movements of the body as well as gestural movement of an emotional expression which in itself creates sporadic shifts in mood and sensation.

CREATURES

Daria Lippi

An old factory. A dark forest. A run-and-chase between a horse and a dancer. They cross paths, spaces, lose each other, then find each other again. Who knows for how long? Who knows why? They know each other, or maybe they knew each other… They wake up and reveal Bataville’s forgotten sets for just the duration of one song… May the Beauty make me Walk.

And So Say All of Us

Mitchell Rose

52 seminal international choreographers link together on a chain love letter to dance. Featured artists include Ohad Naharin, Mark Morris, Elizabeth Streb, Bill T. Jones, Meredith Monk, William Forsythe, and Lucinda Childs. Commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music in honor of Joseph V. Melillo’s 35 years of service as its executive producer.

ATENA/NETS

Mark Freeman

Atena/Nets is a site-specific contemporary dance set in Jamestown, a traditional fishing community in Accra, the capital of Ghana. Rising stars in Ghana’s dance community, Julius Yaw Quansah and Sena Atsugah are enmeshed in the challenges of daily life. Drawing from Ghanaian customs and traditions, they cast a wide net, remaking their world.

Digital Afterlives

Richard James Allen, Karen Pearlman

A witty and whimsical meditation on free will, identity and the afterlife. A narrative made through the collision of unlikely elements: dance, digital code and Franz Liszt. It echoes playfully across the history of onscreen physical storytelling, paying homage to films such as Modern Times and The Red Shoes.

DYNAMITE

Leila Jarman

Dynamite is an experimental short that investigates gender and masculinity as it relates to the American black male experience incorporating movement, spoken word, and chant as it uncover truths about race, gender, and success in an ever-changing social landscape.

Screening

Juliana Lobo

Public interaction in a movie theater – experimentation, movement, interaction in a group in a space of stillness.

Black Stains

Tiffany Rhynard

Black Stains addresses the systemic pattern of racial profiling by the police. Inspired by the personal experiences of choreographer Trent D. Williams, Jr., the film illustrates the reality of being black in the United States. Through interviews with men of varying ages and robust athletic dancing, the film persistently asks the question: why do we not see black men as human?

Chickadee

Sze-Wei Chan

At the height of summer in Macau, earth turns to sky.

A Safe Place to Rest (Solo in the Wild)

Ray Jacobs/ Arty Party

Finally in the heart of the forest he finds a safe place to rest.
Dancer Graham Busby created this solo in the wild woods of Pembrokeshire, Wales

The solo was produced through two weeks of creative retreat exploring responses to these beautiful and wild surroundings.

Focus

John DEgois/ OLIVIER BONNET

Focus c'est le temps figé qui passe / Focus c'est une foule solitaire / Focus c'est un partage individuel / Focus c'est ce nez au milieu du visage invisible / Focus c'est le droit de s'exprimer sans être entendu / Focus c'est des boules quiet sur les yeux / Focus c'est une course au ralenti / Focus c'est le mélange qui ne se croise pas / Focus c'est le mouvement figé / Focus c'est la magie là ou il n'y en à pas

Focus c'est eux, vous, nous, je Focus

PungJeong.Gak (風精.刻) A Town with a Blue Hill

Joowon Song

The 8th dance film of Pung Jeong.Gak (風精.刻 ) series records disappearing memories of Cheongpa-dong neighborhood with site-specific body movements before its redevelopment in Seoul, Korea. The film attempts to narrate and archive today's Cheongpa-dong in corporeal gestures. In each corner of Cheongpa-dong, houses with different temporal layers are cluttered together, where endangered narratives create consonance in discordance and move about in a lively manner. When looking down from the hill, one gets an entire view of newly built Seoullo-7017, adorned with colorful streetlights. Across the landscape of massive metropolis, what will be portrayed in corporeal gestures are the traces of life, and the landscape of the neighborhood located on the blue hill, soon to be disappeared in the sweep of urban redevelopment.