Chinese Canadian dance artist Tony Chong dives into his family’s history to find his place in the world. A heartwarming and sometimes absurd film that blissfully and cautiously surrenders to the great adventure of life. A playful interpretative recounting of an immigrant’s story and legacy that launches a world of possibilities and repercussions for a diaspora future generation that seeks to find and re-identify themselves.

Revealing the Invisible, weaves and dances through the telling of a Chinese family’s story - an imaginative jigsaw puzzle crossing between reality, fiction and fantasy with larger-than-life heroic characters. Creating a fractal kaleidoscope with dance as a portal that leads us to other dimensions of time, jumping in and out of a non-linear journey into the past and back to the present.

Director Biography - Marlene Millar, Tony Ming Chong

MARLENE MILLAR

For over 30 years filmmaker Marlene Millar has created screen dance, documentaries and experimental media productions. With a background in design, contemporary dance and filmmaking (BFA Concordia University, Montreal), Marlene pursued graduate filmmaking at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, before she received a Pew Dance Media Fellowship at the University of California (Los Angeles). Millar’s expansive career was honoured at her first solo exhibition, a retrospective of her 30-year practice at Threshold Artspace, UK (2019).

Since 2000, Millar has co-created a critically acclaimed collection of dance media work with Philip Szporer through their production company, MOUVEMENT PERPÉTUEL. Their award-winning films have been broadcast nationally and widely circulated at international festivals and influential exhibition spaces: the 2010 Cultural Olympics, World Exhibition in Shanghai, and a UNESCO tour of Latin America.

Founded in 2014, the MIGRATION DANCE FILM PROJECT series (LAY ME LOW, PILGRIMAGE, MOVE, TRAVERSE, NAVIGATION), produced/directed by Millar and produced/choreographed by Sandy Silva, has garnered over 25 awards internationally. This process-driven continuum comes to life as Millar transposes the choreography to the screen, creating a poignant visual language that reveals the intricacies of these issue-driven, performative stories centred on migration.

www.marlenemillar.com

www.migrationdance.com

www.mouvementperpetuel.net

TONY CHONG

Tony Chong is a multifaceted artist, born and raised in Vancouver, who has been living in Montreal since 1993. He is a versatile choreographer, dancer, performer, and creative director, with a keen interest in various forms of art such as dance, circus, theatre, new media technology, film, cooking, and photography. Tony has been recognized for his creative pursuits and works, receiving the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseils des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.

Tony's experience as the Artistic Assistant Director on Cirque du Soleil's show Totem in 2018-2019 paved the way for him to launch his Collective RNTF (Remember Not To Forget) with Carol Prieur, where he continues to pursue various creative projects, including their latest 50-minute solo Invisible无形.

After completing his Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Dance at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tony furthered his studies in New York at NYU's The Tisch School for the Arts and in San José, California, with The Limon West and The Limon Company. He began his career working with Kokoro Dance Theatre and other Vancouver-based choreographers such as the late Grant Strate before moving to Montreal. He also danced in the works of Tom Stroud and the late Tedd Robinson with The Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers in Winnipeg.

www.tonythecompany.com

www.bluemouthinc.live

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