“Angsters” was originally choreographed as an upbeat display of movement inspired by the anxieties of modern life, where the performers embody concerns of the dancer, including time (or lack thereof), technique, criticism, and voice/perspective. The filmmakers decided to explore these concepts further by setting the...
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things." - Cicero A short film conceived and choreographed by Loughlan Prior, Memory House features Sir Jon Trimmer and artists of the Royal New Zealand Ballet in a dramatically framed and performed exploration of dance, time and nostalgia....
The last man on Earth sits alone in a room as three boys spend a sleep over telling each other scary stories, a cross over occurs between a fictional man's life in solitude and the future of one of the boy's very own reality....
Set against the iridescent backdrop of London at night, ‘Primitive’ follows a dancer’s journey from bitter heartbreak and violent anger through to creative self-discovery. Featuring choreography and performances by Dane Hurst, one of the world’s most highly-acclaimed contemporary dancers, stunning cinematography and projection-mapped lighting, ‘Primitive’...
An experimental dance film by filmmaker Shona Masarin and choreographer/performer Cori Olinghouse, "Ghost line" brings together the absurdist impulses of Dada and Surrealism with the kinetics of vaudeville, eccentric dance, and silent film to ask: how do we capture and reimagine—in a parlous age of...
ABT members Stella Abrera and Thomas Forster perform to “Depuis le jour” from the Gustave Charpentier opera Louise at the window-filled Ailey studios....
This is the first in a new series Lily conceived as The Paperback Movie Project. Each short film is an interpretation of a novel and explores the fluid relationship between a reader, words and imagination. Episode #1 is a romantic and jarring dream. A JUICE BOX...
Renewal is a reflection on art and environmental action. The film profiles a group of dancers – the Vertigo Dance Company – in their pioneering Eco-Arts village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The film explores Vertigo’s unique, accessible methods of green living. Renewal features captivating scenes...
Buy Tickets: Saturday February 1, 3:30p This amusing film explores one woman's battle against rigid forms. Created for Dances Made to Order....
Buy Tickets: Saturday February 1, 3:30p Music video by Kathy Rose - Visual interpretation of a ballad by Greg Boyer. The visuals interpret the lyrics in a non-literal, abstract, fanciful way creating a poetic dimensionality....
Buy Tickets: Friday January 31, 8:00p Inspired by the award-winning documentary Homegoings, which explores the African American way of death, dancers from the Bill T. Jones/Arne Zane Dance Company perform an original piece choreographed by Janet Wong with music by Daniel Roumain....
Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 6:30pm A movie about looking for the substance of life. The film is a cinematic dance fantasia performed by Anna Abalikhina, one of the leading Russian contemporary dancers and choreographers....
Buy Tickets: Monday February 4, 6:00pm Circling is a meditation on place, the passing of time and the cyclical nature of life. Featuring renowned choreographer/dancer Sally Gross and shot at locations including architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, Circling is a poetic rendering of what it...
Buy Tickets: Friday February 1, 8:30pm Buy Tickets: Monday February 4, 5:30pm Brighter Borough draws you in with the nostalgic sound of an old Kodak Carousel slide machine, projecting abstract images onto floating silks in a rundown theatre. Resting on a final image we dissolve to...
Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm Buy Tickets: Tuesday February 5, 5:30pm 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...
Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm Buy Tickets: Tuesday February 5, 5:30pm 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...
Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm Buy Tickets: Tuesday February 5, 5:30pm 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...
Buy Tickets: Friday February 1, 8:30pm Buy Tickets: Monday February 4, 5:30pm On a small property in rural Australia, a woman grieves for her departed daughter through the ancient and spiritual practice of pottery making....
Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm Buy Tickets: Tuesday February 5, 5:30pm 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...
In 1970s New York, a powerfully liberating dance culture emerged in the face of social strife and inequality. It fostered a vibrant community of dancers who found their freedom of expression jeopardized by Mayor Giuliani's revival of Prohibition-era Cabaret Laws that make dancing illegal. freedom2dance...
