cleveland dance fest 2022

Virtual Dance Film Gallery

11 Dance Films

The Movement Project

A Collection of dance films

CDF 2022 dance film Artists

Let’s give a warm welcome to our CDF 2022 Dance Film Artists! Creating, producing and performing work in the midst of a pandemic has come with challenges we could not imagine as an industry. But rather than letting it stop us, artists around the world are continuing to innovate and bring work to their audiences. We hope you enjoy our collection of dance films from artists around the country. Enjoy!

Woven

Film Description: Tongue tied, tied together, tougher together. A choreography of intra-action.

Film Credits

Artist: Mary Kate Ford

Choreographers: Mary Kate Ford

Dancers: Carlo Antonio, Villanueva, Brit Falcon, and Tristan Knope

Videographer & Editor: Mary Kate Ford

Sound: Original Composition by Mina Kawahara

Costumes: Mary Kate Ford

Collaborators: In collaboration with the dancers.

Unscripted Puppet: The Staged Resurrection

Film Description: Unscripted Puppet: The Staged Resurrection was created with the intention of exploring identity and dissecting my understanding of self. The piece aims to provide a disorienting immersion that allows viewers to define the consequences of not knowing oneself.

Film Credits

Artist: Angelina DiFranco

Choreographer & Dancer: Angelina DiFranco

Videographer: Julia Webb

Editor: Angelina DiFranco

Costumes: Angelina DiFranco

Sound: Poem and soundscape composed by Angelina DiFranco

Secondary Surfaces Rendered/Vertical

Film Description: A dancer with charcoal transforms three-dimensional space to a two-dimensional archive of kinetic movement. This tactile film invites the viewer to the inside of a visual art installation.

Film Credits

Artist: Nina Martin, Kari Hoglund, Jennifer Keller

Choreographer: Nina Martin

Dancer: Kari Hoglund

Videographer: Jennifer Keller

Sound: Paul Hunt

Editor: Kari Hoglund

Memory Is A Monster

Film Description: Born out of quarantine during the pandemic, it is in isolation that we are given the space and time to reflect. The past, our experiences, and the choices that we made that altered us - those memories, whether of dreams or monsters, are all given the opportunity to dance around our minds.

Film Credits

Company: Cultivate Dance Project

Choreographer: Melissa Hinchman

Dancers: Leah Anthony, Amber Cramer, Courtney Gee, Melissa Hinchman, Alyssa Kreider, Alexandria Patterson, Linzey Rice, Renee Danielle Smith

Videographer & Editor: Kyle Heaton

Sound: Distorted Perception by Hayden Hinchman

Costumes: Amber Cramer, Melissa Hinchman

interior

Film Description: Light boundaries inside the hive mind of my home. A composition of sound, light, secrets, and queer coded gestures.

Film Credits

Artist: Mary Kate Ford

Choreographer, Dancer, Videographer & Editor: Mary Kate Ford

Costumes: Mary Kate Ford

Sound: Saro by the Westerlies

for best viewing, play film in full-screen

Closer

Film Description: Closer, a film by Allie Hankins and Rachael Dichter circles time focusing on the rhythm of two bodies twinning in a hazy golden suspended reality.

Film Credits

Artist: Rachael Dichter and Allie Hankins

Choreographers & Dancers: Rachael Dichter and Allie Hankins

Videographer & Editor: Allie Hankins

Sound: Allie Hankins sampled from Eliane Radigue

Costumes: Rachael Dichter and Allie Hankins

Collaborators: Rachael Dichter and Allie Hankins

*this piece contains nudity

inchoate

Film Description: “inchoate” captures the uncertain, embryonic state of self-discovery and subsequent upheaval. Utilizing textiles, sculpture, and sound, performer and choreographer Elyse Kassa constructs an intimate setting, somehow both familiar and abstract– a landscape conceptualized in a lucid dream inhabited by anxieties that permeate real life.

Film Credits

Artist: Elyse Kassa

Choreographer, Dancer, Videographer & Editor: Elyse Kassa

Costumes: Elyse Kassa

Sound: WAKING UP THROUGHOUT THE DAY by Tawfiq Zein

Collaborators: Tawfiq Zein (a.k.a. Jack Sweeney)

Coping

Film Description: This piece was created to cope with the ending of a relationship. I decided to use dance as my form of therapy to release all of my emotions.

Film Credits

Artist: Megan Bryars

Choreographer: Megan Bryars

Dancers: Megan Bryars and Mary Novak

Videographer: Tessa Smith

Editor: Megan Bryars

Costumes: Megan Bryars

Sound: Strange by Celeste

CLEVELAND DANCE FEST 2022 FUNDERS & SPONSORS

Thank you to our CDF 2022 Funders & Sponsors! CDF would not be possible without the generous support of our community sponsors, partners and foundation support. We can’t thank you enough!