Tag: Dance

Short Film: UNREMEDIED, 2min., USA, Dance

Sexual harassment is an epidemic. I wrote this piece as a way to relieve the screams I felt suppressed in my own skin. I created this work for anyone who felt they were hiding in their bones too. We can not silence the monsters of our society by hiding them, under beds they grow and… Continue reading Short Film: UNREMEDIED, 2min., USA, Dance

Short Film: FEEL REBORN HERE, 2min., France, Dance

Imagine a place where landscapes and feelings make you want to discover yourself, explore your surroundings, a place where you wish to reveal your inner self, leave the world behind and where you could live according to your true nature . With their energy and their grace, dancers express this urge to imagine a different… Continue reading Short Film: FEEL REBORN HERE, 2min., France, Dance

Short Film: MINE, 8min., USA, Dance

A dance and music collaboration between sisters exploring a coal mining site from the 1920’s where an iconic structure called the Gronk still stands. Body based dance research and song writing were translated based on the mining history of this place. The sisters collected stories and myths on Peanut and Pershing Mine from elders in… Continue reading Short Film: MINE, 8min., USA, Dance

Short Film: HAPPY ENDING, 4min., Australia, Dance

In 1997 magician/psychic, Uri Geller tried to help Second Division football club Exeter City win a crucial end of season game by placing “energy-infused” crystals behind the goals at Exeter’s ground (Exeter lost the game 5–1). Although made famous by his spoon-bending theatrics throughout the 1970’s and 80’s, Geller was unable however to ever successfully… Continue reading Short Film: HAPPY ENDING, 4min., Australia, Dance

Short Film: WEIGHTLESS, 5min., Canada, Dance

What happens when we allow ourselves to shift perspectives? When we defy established concepts such as “direction”? Perhaps, just perhaps, up is not up, and we need to look down. Weightless is an invitation to create an alternative reality. To imagine a world where the rules we believe unbreakable are simply an option. We invite… Continue reading Short Film: WEIGHTLESS, 5min., Canada, Dance

Short Film: WATERMORPHOSIS, 4min., Germany, Dance

Weightlessly, life moves through dark infinity, a mystical space without threat. The dance embodies the beauty of nature, appears innocent. But as suddenly as it arises, it becomes vulnerable and physical – life is suffocated by dead matter. Plastic. Reality. An estimated 5 – 12 million tons of plastic waste reach our oceans every year.… Continue reading Short Film: WATERMORPHOSIS, 4min., Germany, Dance

Short Film: THE MIND MADE BODY, 4min., USA, Dance

A visual & filmic exploration of Salvador Dali’s 1937 painting “The Burning Giraffe,” The Mind Made Body draws from Dali’s own curiosity with the “secret drawers” existing within all people and explores the physical manifestation of repressed thoughts, memories, & secrets. A Safety Third Productions collaboration with Butoh dancer & performance artist Caroline Haydon, DP… Continue reading Short Film: THE MIND MADE BODY, 4min., USA, Dance

Short Film: IN THE HOUSE OF MANTEGNA, 6min., Italy, Dance

First scene: Conflicts In her Notebooks, Simone Weil wrote that “Each true statement is an error if its opposite is not thought of at the same time, and it cannot be thought of at the same time”. The mediation of contradictions is only an altered image of the irreconcilable polarities that, instead, make up reality.… Continue reading Short Film: IN THE HOUSE OF MANTEGNA, 6min., Italy, Dance