BOOKANIMA: Dance

Shon Kim

BOOKANIMA, a compound word of ‘Book’ and ‘Anima, is Experimental Animation that gives a new cinematic life to books.

It aims to create a ‘Book Cinema’.  Along the way, it experiments locomotion based on Chronophotography Animation, paying homage to Edward Muybridge and Entienne Jules-Marey. 

It experiments with the locomotion of dance along with its stream: Ballet-Korean dance-Modern dance-Jazz dance-Aerial Silk-Tap dance-Aerobic-Disco-Break dance-Hip hop-Social dance.

Floating Chronologies

Mary Fitzgerald/ Dmitri von Klein

Floating Chronologies is a reflection on our relationship to time, aging and physicality. Set in the stunning and timeless landscape of the Painted Desert, Arizona, the piece offers a poetic look at the body's shifts in strength and vulnerability across three generations of women.

Finding My Feet

Omari ‘MOTION’ Carter

Still in the midst of rehabilitation, choreographer and dancer OMARI CARTER confronts his inability to move in ways that he once did. Through talks with cinematographer, James Williams, Omari presents his current discomfort with his current physical ability.

Resulting in a docu-dance that explores the frustrations, doubts and struggle an injured dancer endures to find their feet again.

Les Sirènes - Chant XII

Philippe Saire

The Sirens – Song XII initiates a series of video works related to in-situ performances. 
Spurred by the success both critical and public of Cartographies, a similar project spread over ten years that addressed the physical potentialities of Lausanne’s urban environment, this new series develops the songs of Homer’s Odyssey. 
James Joyce’s transposition in Ulysses serves as a model: References to the epic are transcribed into a personal and contemporary register.

Imaginary Gardens

Brian Harris

 Imaginary Gardens was inspired by a staged experimental dance work – performed by Nancy Havlik’s Dance Performance Group – where the company set out to plant ordinary objects in the mind and cultivate the images which spring up around them. In this short film adaption the performers present to the camera their personal, embodied experience, while improvising on the material; attempting to move beyond what an audience might experience in a staged, performative setting.

Screening

Juliana Lobo

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

Sea Change- on loss at sea

Lizzi Kew Ross/ Roswitha Chesher

Sea Change- on loss at sea, was filmed on Spurn lighthouse near Hull. The Cutty Sark, now a memorial to seafarers killed in the two world wars, would have passed the lighthouse on it’s maiden voyage from Dumbarton to London in 1869. Sea Change was inspired by the surrounding landscape with poetic resonances on loss and memory; the physical relationship between the horizontal and vertical and shifting horizons.

‘Full fathom five thy father lies…Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea- change’

Ariel’s song, The Tempest, 
William Shakespeare 

MASS

Fu LE/ Adrien Gontier

 Mass is a 10 minutes single take video-dance shot in Paris. The project was framed within the Danse en Seine's choreographic workshops, including 40 amateur dancers. Images of the crowd appear more and more often and symbolize the current upheavals all over the world, evoking alternately parties, migrations of refugees, protests, religious gatherings or just the daily life of big cities. We thus work en mass, with all the drunkenness and horror it can inspire. We confront the individual with crowd movements, in order to observe how he resists or lets himself be immersed.

Meet the artist: Friday 20th September at 18:00 Fu LE will be having an informal chat/ Q&A in the theatre with Charles Linehan

Stopgap in Stop Motion

Stephen Featherstone

 Photographs of performers in a disabled and non-disabled dance company come to life. The individual artists dance out of the photos and across table tops until the whole company meet and perform in unison. Completed in 2016, this is a promotional film for Stopgap Dance Company.

So I Danced Again...

Lottie Kingslake

So I Danced Again... embraces the act of listening. It is a search for meaning; a dance through our chaotic world of meaningful/meaningless sounds.

No more beautiful dances

Anabella Lenzu

No more beautiful dances wrestles with the ideas of exploration, introspection and reframing a woman after becoming a mother, and being an inmigrant. Lenzu’s dance theatre piece uses spoken word and drawings to tell a personal vision of femininity, and what it means to be a woman today.

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.