12 SKETCHES ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF BEING STILL UK, 2010, 9’, Director: Magali Charrier, Choreography: Magali Charrier, Performers: Selina Papoutseli & Tom Lyall
This film is a collection of experiments in animation and editing exploring the spaces where nothing happens: the liminal zone that exists between you and me, between here and there, sound and silence, movement and stillness.
KAROHANO South Africa, 2008, 8’55, Director: Jeannette Ginslov, Choreography: Jeannette Ginslov and performers, Performers: Thiami Manekehla, Thabiso Pule & Haja Saranouffi, Music: Scorn, Gamana, Ganga Giri & James Brown
Karohano was first performed as a live dance work by Inzalo Dance & Theater Company at the Market Lab Johannesburg, 2007. Director Jeannette Ginslov approached the company wanting to create a dance video. This way, Karohano became a collaborative dance video between three male dancers form Madagascar and South Africa. A fusion of video technology and urban dance energy that depicts aspects of African male identity, political satire and ironic gestures.
A.P.A.A.I. Spain, 2005, 10’, Director: Guillem Morales, Choreographer and performer: Erre que erre, based on an original idea by Guillermo Weickert, Music: Martin Fuks and Vitor Joaquin
APAAI is an invitation to create the ideal atmosphere for the observation of details – a state of consciousness that lies somewhere between reality and dreams and allows us to cross the boundary freely and without fear. It captures the kind of moment in which an element of everyday experience crumbles and reveals the strangeness of being alive. A delicate, fragile moment like the delirium of fever that only medicine can help us overcome, when possible but highly improbably actions materialise.
BREAK UK, 2005, 5’, Directors and choreographers: Billy Cowie and Liz Aggiss, Performers: Thomas Kampe, Music: Billy Cowie
In the wilderness of Dungeness, where the natural and the nuclear meet for small talk, Master Thomas is taking the air. As he rambles he spies something unusual and decides to investigate. Break (from the Middle English): 1 an interruption of continuity. 2 a short period of recreation or refreshment. 3 a tract of ground of distinct appearance. 4 an opportunity, a chance …
120 GRADOS. Spain, 2008, 5’49, Director: Juanjo Fernández, Choreography: Ricardo Salas, Performer: Ricardo Salas, Music: Huete
A dance solo in space that is virtually empty, consisting just barely of music and light. A dancer explores the expressive capacity of the moving body, as the camera selects, discards and highlights particular shots and gestural motifs. Video breaks the visual continuity of dance, in order to tell us – in the words of J. Thurber – let us not look back in anger, nor forward with fear, but around in awareness.
ANIMALZ Portugal/ UK, 2006, 4’, Director: Sergio Cruz, Choreography: JP Omari, Sergio Cruz, Performers: b3 – brighton youth dance company
Animalz is an exuberant fantasy in which boys emerge from the sea, like the original amphibians, and colonise a forest, marking out their territory in a break-dance celebration of Nature and her feral sons. The film takes the urban B-Boy skills of Brighton and Hove’s B3 Boys into the city’s surrounding natural landscapes, where the sixteen 8-14 year-old dancers were encouraged to bring out the animal in themselves in their energetic performances.
EN CADENA Spain, 2008, 5’, Director: Hammudi Al-Rahmoun, Choreography: Juan Carlos García. Performers: Yester Mulens and Olga Clavel, Music: Xavier
Maristany 12A short, tender story in which lifeless beings come to life, connecting with themselves and with the person in front of them. Two dancers break the mechanised automation of a working group and manage to involve them all in a group choreography and a strong communicative and human power. "En cadena" is the name of this evocative irrup