Cathy Marston: Drift
Amidst the locking uproar last summer, acclaimed broadcaster Cathy Marston had no dance companies to make a move, so she created some for herself instead and played for the first time. in 15 years. Drift was filmed by the Aare River, near Marston’s home in Switzerland. Balancing on fallen trees or deep calving in the water, meditatively moving to a score made especially by regular collaborator Philip Feeney, she offers world-class welcome accommodation which is.
Black Point
Powerful tale of black-ballet dancer Marie-Astrid Mence’s training while training in her Paris city, directed by filmmaker dancer Rebecca Murray and his appearance on Nowness. Mence’s calm voice believes how disgusting her experiences are: bullying about her body, she was asked to change to a street dance, to perform to dance the men’s roles. Dancer with Ballet Black from 2014, Mence proved her wrong, but it was not an isolated experience and is as crucial a subject as ever.
Turbine
Just two minutes long but a clever setting: director Daniel McKee uses a large rotating mirror to change our scene between two dancers, Theo Canham-Spence and Florence Pearl, as they move into a graceful dance but somehow by Grace Nicol. First they change at a slow pace, the two dancers flipping like a dog, then accelerates to a flicker in cinefilm style, the dancers coming together with the saxophone sound of Ben Vince.
National Dance Company of Wales: Plethu / Weave
One from last year you could be missing, a series of collaborations between Welsh poets and dancers, each with a unique flavor. Faye Tan is in close detail of eyes, hands and feet, her body listening to the rhythms of Ifor ap Glyn’s words; a highly accused letter written by Marvin Thompson in response to a record erected to honor a slave trader; and Hanan Issa trying to remember the Arabic for cardamom as Aisha Naamani looks out strongly over Cardiff Bay.
Un[box]ed
Tested to shed light on the experiences and talents of dyslexic artists, dancers Elizabeth Arifien and Charlotte Edmonds founded Move Beyond Words. Their first film, Un[box]ed, taking a literal approach to the idea of being labeled with labels and expectations, with the dancer Kirubel Belay – all hard scenes and flailing dreadlocks – trapped inside a cage-like frame , trying to dance his way out.
Our Animal Kingdom
When you start digging into the plethora of dance videos that have appeared online since March, you may think that you are the only one who has not filmed himself throwing shapes in front of their iPhone. There has been a huge enthusiasm for major video dance projects, from TikTok memes to the 172 people who submitted a film to the Akram Khan Company for Our Animal Kingdom. Dancers of any age, nationality and experience have been invited to enter a movement inspired by the natural world, which has been expertly aroused by filmmaker Maxime Dos to true accuracy bring the globe together.