A SPACE LEFT BLANK| Travis Clausen Knight (United Kingdom)| 8 minutes
It’s in our nature to advance. We create technologies which express our instinctive desire to build relationships with one another. So, what happens when the screens that are meant to bring us together get in the way of real connection? The philosophical is brought urgently to life by choreographers and dancers Travis Clausen-Knight and James Pett in A Space Left Blank. They embody and expose the tension between the numb immediacy of virtual separation and an innate need for human touch.
Producer: Fabula Collective Ltd
Director and Writer: Travis Clausen-Knight
Assistant Director: James Pett
Choreographer: Travis Clausen-Knight
Filmographer: Tom Crooke for Bobbin Productions
Composer: Sean Pett
Video Assistant: Paul Heelis
Editor: Erik Roberts
Costume Design: Yukiko Tsukamoto
Set Design: Travis Clausen-Knight and James Pett
Dancers: James Pett and Travis Clausen-Knight
With thanks to Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, National Trust and Madison London
BEATING HOUSE| Hygin Delimat (Austria)| 3 minutes
CONSOLATION / EPISODE 6 | Eric Oberdoff (France)| 14 minutes
Consolation screens a moment of the lives of 10 men and women of different ages,
cultures, social status, religion, life paths. Each of them in his/her everyday life, they
tell us about their relationship to the world, to the other, to love, to creation, to
loneliness, to life, to death, to nature, to God or to the lack of Gods… They confide
their memories, their emotions, their doubts, their quest for identity, relying on
texts excerpted from Our need for consolation is insatiable by Swedish author Stig
Dagerman and from the poem Fiançailles by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire.
Dance is also used in the narrative setting in metaphorical and dream sequences,
like poetic suspensions of time. In episode 6, we follow the path of an elderly, Mariko, haunted by her past and who is trying to find peace.
Direction, choreography, images and editing: Eric Oberdorf
Music: Anthony Rouchier aka A.P.P.A.R.T
Texts: Stig Dagerman (excerpts of Our Need For Consolation Is Insatiable translated from Swedish to French by Philippe Bouquet)
Dancer/actress: Mariko Aoyama
Costumes: Compagnie Humaine
Sound editing: Monica Gil Giraldo, Camille Giuglaris
Color timer: Vladimir Nassyrkine
Executive producer: Compagnie Humaine in collaboration with Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Helsinki- European network Studiotrade creation support Ministry of Culture / DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur with support by Institut Français, Région Sud-Provence-Alpes- Côte d’Azur.
CONSOLATION / EPISODE 10 | Eric Oberdoff (France)| 7 minutes
Consolation screens a moment of the lives of 10 men and women of different ages,
cultures, social status, religion, life paths. Each of them in his/her everyday life, they
tell us about their relationship to the world, to the other, to love, to creation, to
loneliness, to life, to death, to nature, to God or to the lack of Gods… They confide
their memories, their emotions, their doubts, their quest for identity, relying on
texts excerpted from Our need for consolation is insatiable by Swedish author Stig
Dagerman and from the poem Fiançailles by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire.
Dance is also used in the narrative setting in metaphorical and dream sequences,
like poetic suspensions of time. In episode 6, we follow the path of an elderly, Mariko, haunted by her past and who is trying to find peace.
Direction, choreography, images and editing: Eric Oberdorf
Music: Anthony Rouchier aka A.P.P.A.R.T
Texts: Stig Dagerman (excerpts of Our Need For Consolation Is Insatiable translated from Swedish to French by Philippe Bouquet)
Dancer/actress: Mariko Aoyama
Costumes: Compagnie Humaine
Sound editing: Monica Gil Giraldo, Camille Giuglaris
Color timer: Vladimir Nassyrkine
Executive producer: Compagnie Humaine in collaboration with Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Helsinki- European network Studiotrade creation support Ministry of Culture / DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur with support by Institut Français, Région Sud-Provence-Alpes- Côte d’Azur.
DRIFTING DUST |Chuk-Lam Chiu (HK) & Hsiao- Tze Tien (Taiwan) | 11 minutes
This work mainly elaborates on those uncertain and helpless moments occasionally happening during the continuing search for the meaning and the position in the journey of life. Those moments for me are like floating in the infinite ocean, feeling rocked, and seeing no shore. When I deeply feel the sense of floating, often because I cannot find the answer or cannot catch something certain at the moment. Hence, I feel like I’m drifting in life. Then the feeling of “pulling,” “angry,” “contradictory,” and “disturbing” covers me at the moments. Therefore, those feelings and emotions stimulate me to find and develop physical dynamic responses. Water-related scenes are largely used in the picture. Also, through the montage editing techniques, we try to depict the psychological state of “drifting.” This film project was first done in 2014 with a second version released in 2020.
Director: Cheuk-Lam Chiu
Choreographer: Tien Hsiao-Tzu Tien
Camera: Cheuk-Lam Chiu, Wan Lau
Editor: Cheuk-Lam Chiu
Music：Yu-Jun Wang
Dancers: Ya-Chun Yang, Bo-Ling Pan, Pei-Yu Hung
GREAT FREEDOM | I-Fen Tung/Focus Dance Company (Taiwan)| 15 minutes
This work is tailored to the 2019 Focus Dance Company inspired by French composer Maurice Ravel’s last one-movement orchestral piece, Boléro. In all the normative restrictions, people always find some gaps. When the body is moving, it always produces great freedom.
Concept / Choreography : Tung, I-Fen
Music : Maurice Ravel(London Symphony Orchestra/Claudio Abbado
Lighting Designer: Dai Cai-Ru
Costume Designer: Fann Yu-Lin
Special Thanks: Wang Yunyu, Lin Kuei-ju, James Kan
Rehearsal Assistant: James Kan
Dancers:Chih Shen Wang, Yu-Cheng Hu, Ming-Hung Weng, Chih-Ying Hsieh, Pui Lon Lao, Pei-Xin Lin, Kuan-Yi Lin, Yung-Chen Yeh, Meng-Chen Ho, Chia-Liang Lin, Nan-Chieh Chou, Yu-Chieh Cho, Jyun Yi Lin, Wen-Ting Chang, Yi-Chen Chen, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Ching-Wen Cheng, Ting-Jung Huang, Yu-Chiao Chen, Wei Cheng, Yu-Hua Lin, Fang-Yu Chang, Yu-Chia Chang, Ai Chang Tseng, Ching-Yi Hsu, Li-En Hsu, Jo-Hao Huang, Yu Syuan Liu, Aiden Tan, Sen Cai
HOOL| Kirstie Simson (UK), Martin Piliponsky (Argentina) & Isaac Zambra (Mexico) | 30 minutes
Dancers: Kirstie Simson and Martin Piliponsky
Photography: Mario Morales Rubí and Isaac Zambra
Music: Jorge Zambra
Production: Karla Solis
Direction and edition: Isaac Zambra
HOW LONG IS FOREVER | Priyabrat Panigrahi (India) | 8 minutes
Priyabrata saw the five bodies in the space as one fabric, as integrated and dynamic elements of breathing topography. One cloud, one swarm of harmonised yet competing energies. He wanted to implode and meditate. Both, simultaneously.
The question was how to use the simplest mechanics to express through bodies that listened to each other. Creating geometry and at the same time working with the anatomy and physics of the flesh and bones and of course gravity.
The topography moves. It maps itself in space. It reaches far beyond its geographical limitations and it leaves traces. It reminds you why dance and poetry are so necessary for the human experience, particularly at a time of crisis, violence, separation and anarchy on the planet at large. As such watching this piece is not just awe inspiring but therapeutic too.
It creates new maps and deconstructs them without resisting. Its existence is based on moving, not claiming and not insisting, fixing and clinging to its current reality.
It thrives in the moment.
It lives only in the moment.
It is preoccupied with being and nothing more.
Direction and Cinematography: Sahit Anand
Choreography: Priyabrat Panigrahi
Film Production: Anand Akalwadi, Boris Kenneth, Dannilla Correya
Dance Production: Citizens of Stage Co Lab
Music: Miguel Marin Pavon
Dancers: Priyabrata Panigrahi, Snigdha Prabhakar, Parth Bhardwaj, Paridhi Bihani and Nihal Pasha
I WISH TO BE THE BLOSSOM OF A FERN | Bea Debrabant (Belgium) / AURA Dance Theatre (Lithuania)| 15 minutes
What’s left of the silence…
She’s standing, she’s moving forward, turning around. Is this balance or illusion?
She gets stiff, coalesces and hovers
Her body is heavy, sometimes changing, tied up.
Remember and to keep on standing!
Her body reacts like an amplifier. Electricity. With her or without her, she’s holds on, relaxes and
fluctuates.
Choreography: Bea Debrabant (France)
Costumes: Kristina Čyžiūtė, Bea Debrabant
Music: Dhafer Youssef, ‘Soupir Eternal’, Hessien, ‘Placing Shells’
Lights: Vladimiras Šerstabojevas (Lithuania)
Voice: Ilja Gun (Lithuania)
Dancers: AURA Dance Theatre
KAPOW 6 | Fresco Dance Company (Israel)| 30 minutes
Kapow, Eyal Dadon’s new dance work for the Fresco Dance Company, explores our
strengths and weaknesses as human beings, while building the path to personal
empowerment with the help of the “superpowers” we have.
Eyal’s unique way to present the body through his unusual and humorous movement
language, helps the viewer to discover the inner strength we all have. This quality can be
used as a very powerful weapon, yet sometimes it can also work against us.
Choreography: Eyal Dadon
Artistic Director: Yoram Karmi
Dancers: Fresco Dance Company
Rehearsal Directors: Inbar Nimerowsky, Noa Sarig |
Company Manager: Naama Kutner-Golan
Production Manager: Koral Peleg
Sound Editing: Eyal Dadon
Costumes: Eyal Dadon, Yoram Karmi
Lighting Design: Yoav Barel
International Communications & Development: Katherina Vasiliadis
Supported by: Ministry of Sport and Culture in Israel, Tel Aviv Municipality, Pais – The Israeli Lottery Foundation
WOMANEWER| Laura Kenyon | 15 minutes
A documentary film of a creative project that combines multiple art forms including dance, speech and visual arts, to connect women and address issues related to gender inequalities, sexual abuse and domestic violence. WomanEwer has now created a live performance, led workshops for community groups and created a short film. It raises awareness about these issues and has created a safe space for female artists and non movers to express themselves and tell their stories in their own way.
Ewer is an old word for a jug, its shape is reminiscent of the female form and extends to the idea of the container-keeper-receiver, giver and guardian of life, nourishment and stories. New and Newer relates to the notion of revival, revitalization, growth, recognition of experience, rooting and flourishing.
Artistic Director: Laura Kenyon
Producer: Maren Ellermann
Dancers: Sara Maurizi, Vivian Luk, Lauryn Pinard, Caterina Grosoli, Aeron Preston, Anliya Abdouissa, Alice Shepperton, Steff d’Arcy, Sriradha Paul and Ruby Edmond
Videographer: Celine Forten
Composer: Felix Lemarchal
Supported by Centre 151, Arts Council England, The Barbican, Disrupt 2021 and The Guild Hall School of Music and Drama.
