Dance Films Association

Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm
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Folie à Deux is an exploration into the interior landscapes of two people whose acts of intimacy are the fantasy that thinly veils a greater discord. Folie à Deux (a French term that literally translates as “a madness shared by two.”) is a [...]

Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm
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Evoking the visceral agony of escaping, one consecutive camera shot becomes a character of it’s own as it interacts with a woman who is finding the agency to undertake the necessary abandonment of her environment.

Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm
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Featuring a man in an elephant costume, “Dance Elephant Dance” uses images of multiple elephants in outer space to portray a pachyderm’s awkward desire to get his groove on.

Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm
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A Dance film short exploring the connections between landscape, imagined archeology and ritualized movement.
Blind Torrent is a dance film short exploring the landscape of Rural Devon from the perspective of imagined archeology and ritualized movement, exploring ideas of the nature and transmission of knowledge and [...]

Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm
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Stuck in the tunnel of time, the only place to escape is in the same time, because time is imaginary. Fear of the future creates uncertainty in the present and so we set ourselves free by studying Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Removing [...]

Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm
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Dafeena is a site-specific dance for camera that adapts the work of Natasha Bakht, which she originally created for the CanAsian International Dance Festival. Bridging the forms of Bharata Natyam and Contemporary Dance and shot in an abandoned crystal quarry, the camera follows [...]

Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm
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Painted is the first in a trilogy of screendance films about our tug-of-war with wilderness. Here we explore 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 [...]

Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm
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This stop motion animation dance film stars two superheroes. They have quite a history together, and they were once in love. The female is a spy undercover as a ballerina.
Music: Swan Lake – Ballet in Four Acts, Op. 20, Act 2, No. 10 [...]

Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm
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This short documentary takes place in a tiny New York apartment which can barely contain the combined energy of dancer Arthur Aviles and his mentor, Aileen Passloff. Arthur is a BESSIE & Brio award-winner who danced for many years with Bill T. Jones [...]