In collaboration with Vancouver Street Dance Association&nbsp;Presented in Partnership with The Dance Centre Join us in celebrating local and national street dance artists and their endeavours into movement-on-screen. This is a retrospective screening of street dance-centred films that have screened at FORM over the past 10 years. Each film creatively explores the unique ways that street dances such as hip hop, locking, w*acking, and breaking can interact with the camera. These films act as a living archive of street dance in Canada, commemorating the culture and people who shape the community.&nbsp;

RELINQ inverses the relationship between dance and music. Sounds created by dancers have been warped and molded to produce a piece of music led by dancers, rather than a dance piece led by music. Through this mixture of movement and sound, Relinq captures the unfiltered energy of the Session and offers it to the viewer without external interference.
Through the viewfinder of a camera, the audience is invited to experience the session as a dancer, a spectator, and a fly on the wall.

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RELINQ

RELINQ inverts the relationship between dance and music.

Your fashion is THE fashion! In this dance film, dancers from punking, w*acking and voguing culture come together to showcase their unique movements as well as their favourite outfits. As all of these dance genres originate from LGBTQ+ culture, we convey through our movements that everyone is the star of their own stage by being their authentic selves!

Fashion Blogger

A celebration of Punking, W*acking and Voguing culture. United we conquer.

This film follows one subject shedding, molting and transforming their layers to comedically perform the dance before the dance, getting ready over and over again. All the while the dancer remains blissfully unaware of their surroundings being consumed by the perpetually compiling aftermath of trying to look AND smell fresh.

For on the Floor (An Ode to the Cyclical)

The entropic unfolding of a dancer's closet on screen. It's all fun and games until the laundry bubble pops and the boulder rolls back down the steep hill; rinse, spin, repeat.

Back in May, the Montreal Steppers visited South Africa for a cultural and artistic exchange to learn from elders and youth. Connecting to the roots of Gumboots, Pantsula and Stepping changed their lives and the work that they do. It fueled a deeper commitment to sharing the history and honoring the art forms that paved the way for resistance, power and legacy. With this knowledge, they enter into spaces with a heightened appreciation and understanding that this dance form is indeed their “ancestral inheritance.”

The Steppers visit South Africa

The Montreal Steppers visited South Africa for an artistic exchange, fueling a deeper commitment to honouring the “ancestral inheritance” that paved the way for resistance, power, and legacy.

Three friends hang out to watch dance videos, snack, and vibe. When there's only one candy left, one heads to the bathroom while the other two break into a playful dance battle for the final treat. Just as things heat up, the third friend returns, totally unaware, and casually grabs the candy for himself. Told entirely through movement, this lighthearted short is a funky tribute to street dance, especially Campbellocking, inspired by the iconic style, humour, and spirit of The Lockers.

Candy

When there's only one candy left, but 2 campbellockers remain....

AION refers to a concept developed by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze which denotes "the indefinite time of the event, the floating line that knows only speeds and continually divides that which transpires into an already-there that is at the same time not-yet-here, a simultaneous too-late and too-early". It refers to a time-sense that is outside of Chronos or the chronological, linear, everyday measure of time which both organizes and is organized by "normality". These twin concepts demonstrate that time is anything but neutral, and that it organizes our perception of reality and our visions of the future.
The film AION plays with the conceptual disruption of Chronos by molding together both forward and reversed movement while creating an ulterior continuity between night and day. It is a dance that refuses the constructed time-sense of the everyday, one that is instilled in us by capital and has remained mostly imperceptible for many until COVID-19. As we edge closer to normality, AION serves to remind the viewer of the possibility of constructing time and ultimately our lives outside of "the normal" that drove us here in the first place.

AION

AION is a dance that refuses the constructed time-sense of the everyday.

Showcasing one of Toronto's best up and coming Hiphop dancers, All It Gives follows the story of Kosi Eze, a Nigerian immigrant who moved to Canada when she was fourteen. Her transition to the country brought culture shock, loneliness and loss of identity. She was immediately hooked by the vibrant Hiphop scene in Toronto and Mississauga. After meeting key members of the dance community, Marcelino "FrostFlow" DaCosta, Mariano "Glizzi" Abarca and Caroline "Lady C" Fraser, she was able to meet even more new people, share perspectives, and excel as a dancer in the Toronto community and beyond. From dancing in the hallways at her high school, to winning battles across the globe, Kosi's story of growth is a glowing example of how the power of hiphop can inspire, uplift and support anyone who needs it and wants to discover it.

All It Gives

Kosi Eze, an up and coming Toronto dancer, tells her story of finding a place in the global Hiphop community after immigrating to Canada in her early teens.

Created by an all woman cast & crew, BOSSY is an energetic short film that celebrates the women in Toronto’s street dance community. The film highlights different generations with styles ranging from Hip Hop, Popping, Locking, Waacking, Breaking, and Krump. Glo Romy, the director of the film, is a Hip Hop dancer from Toronto who has battled across the city as well as having proudly repp’d abroad. The film is 4 minutes long and premiered in March 2024, in honour of Women’s History Month.

BOSSY: An Ode To Women in Street Dance

The term “bossy” is often used to shame women in charge, however this is a film that commands RESPECT. BOSSY celebrates women in street dance who have kept the culture alive - featuring an all women cast & crew.

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