Dafeena
Filmed on location in a crystal mine and an abandoned copper quarry, two dancers clad in gem-coloured silk are captured through prisms of light and through layers of spun glass. The movement of this duet displays recognizable postures and steps from...
Eko & Sen Hea – a journey beyond
A intimate and engaging documentary of two cross-cultural dance-artists, Eko Supriyanto and Sen Hea Ha, from Indonesia and Korea, who confront their traditional roots and face the contemporary realities of urban Los Angeles.
Standing at the Edge, We Dance
A personal documentary on the challenging life and career of Joan Myers Brown, whose fierce vision has forged a path for Philadanco, the Philadelphia-based dance company she founded and has directed for the past forty years.
Raising the Bar: The Fresh Voices Project
A documentary tracing the experiences of five Canadian contemporary-dance choreographers. Anne Troake (St. John’s, NFLD), Sarah Williams (Montreal, QC), Nova Bhattacharya (Toronto, ON), Tania Alvarado (Edmonton, AB), and Susan Elliott (Vancouver, ...
Moments in Motion/Au fil du mouvement
Seven short profiles of Canadian choreographers, each powerful voices from the new generation: Natasha Bakht from Ottawa, Byron Chief-Moon from Lethbridge, Day Helesic from Vancouver, Hinda Essadiqi and Audrey Lehouillier, both from Montreal, Malgor...
Falling
Falling is a short dance film commissioned by containR and created in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Jeff Hall.
Based on the true events of Jeff’s journey after taking a life changing fall that left him unable to walk, and his subseq...
The Greater The Weight
In The Greater The Weight, dancer and choreographer Dana Michel assembles extremely physical movement - a remnant from her previous training in track and touch football — with mathematical precision and poetic improvisation. The result is an explo...
Butte
Poetic and sensual, Butte unfolds over the course of a day, marking the progression of time at four key points – sunrise, mid-day, late afternoon, and sundown. Filmed on the Blood Reserve in the plains and ancestral grounds of Southern Alberta, th...
World Tea Party
During the World Festival of Sacred Music, at an event honouring the Dalai Lama, held at the Hollywood Bowl, Winnipeg’s Plug-In Gallery throws a tea party for the assembled masses.
A Soft Place to Fall
A Soft Place to Fall is a dance film that investigates a couple’s shifting relationship. This dance tells the passionate story of a man and a woman and the humour and peril of becoming vulnerable to each other as the two move through states of obs...