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In the face of displacement, exile, conformity, and crisis, these video poems approach existence as resistance. Creating belonging in new places, taking up space through performance art, examining the material reality of tragedy, and communing with nature to explore internal worlds—the works in this showcase offer sure footing and tender steps forward as the global landscape shifts beneath our feet.
(73 min TRT)
Click here for in-person tickets to this program: Apr. 26 at 7:00pm
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Cadence 2025 will be held both virtually and in-person. Festival Passes are HYBRID, granting access to both virtual and in-person viewing, and are available here.
Header photo credit: The Melting, dir. Lananh Chu
Showcase title credit: whereverever, dir. Alysha Seriani, Erika Mitsuhashi & Alexa Solveig Mardon
Recorded on location in Finland and Japan—the respective ancestral homelands of Canadian choreographic duo Mardon + Mitsuhashi—this docu-poem intertwines visits with relatives, folk and contemporary dancing, and playful noticings of rupture with a focus on gesture, movement, and impulse. whereverever is a spell to visit with ancestors past and future through the technologies of dreaming, dancing, and fabulating what isn’t and cannot be known—treating the gaps, tears and absences as valuable knowledges, too.
- Year2023
- Runtime16 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Finnish, Japanese
- CountryCanada
- PremiereUS Premiere
- Subtitle Languagewith English subtitles, hardcoded English text and poetic captions
- DirectorAlysha Seriani, Erika Mitsuhashi, Alexa Solveig Mardon
- ComposerSasha J. Langford
In the face of displacement, exile, conformity, and crisis, these video poems approach existence as resistance. Creating belonging in new places, taking up space through performance art, examining the material reality of tragedy, and communing with nature to explore internal worlds—the works in this showcase offer sure footing and tender steps forward as the global landscape shifts beneath our feet.
(73 min TRT)
Click here for in-person tickets to this program: Apr. 26 at 7:00pm
Virtual tickets are pay-what-you-can, $5–25. Click "Unlock Now" above to select the price you are most comfortable with.
Cadence 2025 will be held both virtually and in-person. Festival Passes are HYBRID, granting access to both virtual and in-person viewing, and are available here.
Header photo credit: The Melting, dir. Lananh Chu
Showcase title credit: whereverever, dir. Alysha Seriani, Erika Mitsuhashi & Alexa Solveig Mardon
Recorded on location in Finland and Japan—the respective ancestral homelands of Canadian choreographic duo Mardon + Mitsuhashi—this docu-poem intertwines visits with relatives, folk and contemporary dancing, and playful noticings of rupture with a focus on gesture, movement, and impulse. whereverever is a spell to visit with ancestors past and future through the technologies of dreaming, dancing, and fabulating what isn’t and cannot be known—treating the gaps, tears and absences as valuable knowledges, too.
- Year2023
- Runtime16 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Finnish, Japanese
- CountryCanada
- PremiereUS Premiere
- Subtitle Languagewith English subtitles, hardcoded English text and poetic captions
- DirectorAlysha Seriani, Erika Mitsuhashi, Alexa Solveig Mardon
- ComposerSasha J. Langford