This event is covered by the Short Film Pass and the Flatpass. You cannot buy an individual ticket for this event.
Following the success of our first Screendance competition last year, we're coming back strong and teaming up with Birmingham International Dance Festival to present two installments. This first programme, curated by Sima Gonsai, looks at the Screendance genre as a unique language, and brings you showstopping works that couldn't be seen on a stage. Full of colours, energy and ideas, these dance films will get you moving in your living room!
These films are eligible for the Screendance Award, given out by our jury. The winner will we revealed at the Flatpack Awards on 30 May (free event, booking essential).
Total running time: 50 mins
The second Screendance competition programme will be available online for 48 hours from Monday 7 June, 12pm, as part of Birmingham International Dance Festival.
It features the following films:
- In Plain Sight, by Tanin Torabi
- Green Dawn, by Fu Le
- Navigation, by Marlene Millar
- Material Bodies, by Dorothy Allen-Pickard
- Time Perspective, by Line Klungseth Johansen
- L'Appât, by Tang Chenglong
Delivered in partnership with Birmingham International Dance Festival (BIDF 2021), produced by DanceXchange.
Set in the spectacular Burren region of the west coast of Ireland, Navigation explores the current humanitarian crisis of displacement and dislocation that is experienced both individually and collectively. Using the land itself to explore how we navigate through unknown terrain, themes of survival and perseverance, departure and renewal emerge in a nuanced and layered interpretation of the migration experience. The rhythms, movement, vocals and landscape define and embody this exploration, featuring the performances of 10 dancers, singers and a choir of 40 participants
- Year2020
- Runtime13 minutes
- LanguageNo dialogue
- CountryCanada
- Rating12
- DirectorMarlene Millar
This event is covered by the Short Film Pass and the Flatpass. You cannot buy an individual ticket for this event.
Following the success of our first Screendance competition last year, we're coming back strong and teaming up with Birmingham International Dance Festival to present two installments. This first programme, curated by Sima Gonsai, looks at the Screendance genre as a unique language, and brings you showstopping works that couldn't be seen on a stage. Full of colours, energy and ideas, these dance films will get you moving in your living room!
These films are eligible for the Screendance Award, given out by our jury. The winner will we revealed at the Flatpack Awards on 30 May (free event, booking essential).
Total running time: 50 mins
The second Screendance competition programme will be available online for 48 hours from Monday 7 June, 12pm, as part of Birmingham International Dance Festival.
It features the following films:
- In Plain Sight, by Tanin Torabi
- Green Dawn, by Fu Le
- Navigation, by Marlene Millar
- Material Bodies, by Dorothy Allen-Pickard
- Time Perspective, by Line Klungseth Johansen
- L'Appât, by Tang Chenglong
Delivered in partnership with Birmingham International Dance Festival (BIDF 2021), produced by DanceXchange.
Set in the spectacular Burren region of the west coast of Ireland, Navigation explores the current humanitarian crisis of displacement and dislocation that is experienced both individually and collectively. Using the land itself to explore how we navigate through unknown terrain, themes of survival and perseverance, departure and renewal emerge in a nuanced and layered interpretation of the migration experience. The rhythms, movement, vocals and landscape define and embody this exploration, featuring the performances of 10 dancers, singers and a choir of 40 participants
- Year2020
- Runtime13 minutes
- LanguageNo dialogue
- CountryCanada
- Rating12
- DirectorMarlene Millar