Cinedans programme 2005

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Cinedans Jury Award:
'Rolling down like Pele' by Laura Seward Margulies

Cinedans Public Award:
'Hyper Alarm Dance' by Michael Cole

Jury members 2005:
Ronald Ockhuysen: filmjournalist
Eddy Terstall: filmmaker
Anouk van Dijk: choreographer and dancer
Bruno Barat: Dancer, gallery owner

Friday the 8th and Saturday the 9th of July 2005
Theater De Balie Leidseplein, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10( tram 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 en 10)

Friday the 8th

EXTRA : On friday there will be a showing of 'The Cost of Living' by Lloyd Newson in the Vondelpark open air theatre. Time will noticed soon.

For descriptions of the films please scroll down.

Saturday the 9th

Fruit of Love (2')
USA/UK 2004
Director: Nadia Roden
Singer: Tiye Giraud
Composer song: Bill Gourd, Nina Mankin
Composer music: David Soldier
Producer: Nadia Roden
"Fruit of Love" follows the life story of the secretive fig. Born in the
Mediterranean with ambiguous sexuality (it is both male and female). Figs
were the first fruit to be mentioned in the bible; their leaves clothing
Adam and Eve well before the Vine. They became Cleopatra`s favorite and
yet, unwittingly hid the asps that killed her. Becoming a symbol of love
and fertility, King Farouk took them with him when he left Egypt for Paris
by boat in the 1950's.

Haunting Douglas (71')
New Zealand 2003
Choreographer: Douglas Wright
Director: Leanne Pooley
Dancers: Various
Composer: David Long
Producer: Leanne Pooley, Shona McCullagh Douglas Wright escaped small town New Zealand by punishing his body with drugs, alcohol and eventually, extraordinary dance; but facing death, the world renowned choreographer struggles to exorcise demons even he can’t dance away.
Unwilling to learn the collective side-step of the rugby-mad small town New Zealand of his birth, Douglas Wright subsumed his gift for dance, first as a gymnast then with drugs and alcohol before finally devoting himself to the punishing regime that would make him a world renowned dancer and choreographer.
Wright’s cruel possession of his body, his life story; is written on his astonishing musculature as, under the force of his imagination, it performs wonderful, self-destructive dances. Off stage he rages too: great loves, wars with the critics and eloquent loathing of the country that provides the raw material for his work.
In 'Haunting Douglas’ Wright’s life and art collide as facing death, he struggles to exorcise demons even he can’t dance away.

Viento Del Arena (3')
USA/Netherlands 2004
Choreographer: Susanne Ohmann & Rodrigo Delano
Director: Ron Bunzl & Susanne Ohmann
Dancers: Susanne Ohmann & Rodrigo Delano
Composer: Gypsy Kings
The thrill, freedom and tenderness the woman experiences in the sensual spinning moves of the Lambada is given a visual equivalent in a dream of free and wild horses running on the beach, and playing and caring for each other in windy fields.

Embracing Time(26' )
Netherlands 2004
Choreographer: Ed Wubbe / Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen
Director: Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen
Dancers: Francis Sinceretti / Bryndis Brynjolfsdottir
Composer: Gustav Mahler
Producer: Frank de Jonge / Piet Erkelens
Choreographer Ed Wubbe and director Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen have \'translated\'the music and text of Mahler\'s masterpiece \'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen\'to the - danced - story of an older man who \'relives\'for once and for all the passionate and overwhelming love he once felt for a woman. At the end - with the mood movements of the music - he accepts the impossibility and loss of this love and finds peace in himself. This dance film is imbedded in a documentary part in which Donald Mitchell explains the musical and biographical backgrounds of this first masterpiece of young Gustav Mahler.
Distributor: Rhombus International Inc., attn.: Sheena MacDonald Distributor address: 99 Spadina Avenue, Suite 600

Soaring Wings (12')
Norway 2004
Choreographer: Lise Eger
Director: Lise Eger
Dancers: Loan HP Hoang, Dimitri Jourde, Erik Rulin, Kari Hoaas
Composer: Bugge Wesseltoft/Mari Boine
Producer: Gaute Lid Larssen
Soaring Wings (orig; \"Veien ut\") tells the story of a woman’s life from birth to death; a picture of a journey of the soul. The starting point for the script is the underlying motivations; earth, air, fire and water. This is the spine of the themes, but not necessarily explicitly expressed. A woman is the leading figure/person, which is moving through life. The Dancers are representing the meetings, the fights, the understanding and the acknowledgement - the phases of life. The environment and the elements are there to underline this development.

Voeten op de aarde/Tuin van Eros (53')
Netherlands 2004
Choreographer: Rudi van Dantzig
Director: Paul Cohen (\"Voeten ...\") / Jellie Dekker (\"Tuin ...\")
Dancers: Nicolas Rapaic/Victor Mateos Arellano/Felix Burleson
Composer: Louis Andriessen
Producer: Frank de Jonge / Piet Erkelens
The famous Dutch choreographer Rudi van Dantzig created specially for film \"Garden of Eros\"(\"Tuin van Eros\") on the string quartet of the same name of Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. A moving ballet about the search for friendship and solidarity, the transitoriness of life and the acceptance of death. Film director Jellie Dekker took care of the dancing part of the film, Paul Cohen for the preceding documentary about the short but intense creation and rehearsal process.

Kwenda Vutuka Kinshasa (30')
France 2004
Director: Luli Barzman
Portrait of Congolese dancer and choreographer Faustin Linyekula. The film retraces his biography and the elaboration Kinshasa of his latest creation (Spectacularly Empty II) with the company he has founded, the Studios Kabako. With the several excerpts from the following pieces: The field of limits, Triptyque no title, it it’s a negro – self-portrait…

Children of Ibdaa (30')
Australia
Director: S. Smith Patrick
To create something out of nothing is about the lives of several adolescents in a Palestinian children’s dance troupe from Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. They use their performance to express the history, struggle, and aspirations of the Palestinian people, specifically the fight to turn to their homeland. Through interviews and documentation of the children, the video offers insight into their families’ displacement from their villages in historical Palestine, the physically and emotionally stressful aspects of life in a refugee camp, and the unique experience of participating in the politically motivated dance troupe. The story culminates in a visit by the children for the first time to demolished villages from which their grandparents were expelled in 1948.

An Archetypical Room ( 1.5')
USA 2004
Director: Phyllis Bulkin lehrer
Composer: Phyllis Bulkin lehrer
Producer: Phyllis Bulkin lehrer
This work is a moving image poem that explores the relationship of identity, reality, space, surface and fashion .It combines spoken and visible text with stop motion animation and flash drawing. It is a meditation on the relationship between the personal and the political.
An Archetypical Room is a digital animated work inspired by personal, political and social realities. It combines techniques and fuses elements of dance, music, poetry and visual art.

Rolling down like Pele (5')
USA/Hawaii 2004
Choreographer: Keali\'i Reichel, Sissy Kaio, Traditional
Director: Laura Seward Margulies
Dancers: Keolamai Eugenio, Hula Halau O Lilinoe
Composer: Keali\'i Reichel, Frank Palani Kahala-Kumu Hula, Traditional, Some chants performed by Michael Kekaimoku Yoshikawa
Producer: Laura Seward Margulies
Using oil paints, watercolor and pencil animation, \"Rolling Down Like Pele\" delves into the world of traditional hula dance and chant by exploring sections of three different dances based on water, wind and fire in a rich and unique way.

Man'dalas (6')
Canada 2004
Choreographer: Mark Johnson
Director: Cosimo Zitani
The mundane transforms into the sublime when a man gets trapped in a glass revolving door. The word mandala, loosely translated from Sanskrit, means ‘circle’ and represents wholeness.
A man finds himself trapped in a revolving door and discovers his only escape is to surrender to the circular flow of motion. Written and directed by Cosimo Zitani, with Music, performance and choreography by Mark Johnson, Digital effects by Tom Hillman. Produced and
cinematography by Martin Julian.
"man'dalas" has been shown at "Moving Pictures" dance festival in Toronto,
"Dance On Camera" in New York, as well as in screenings in Vancouver and
Louisiana. This is its European Premiere.

Drowning Crow (1.5')
USA/UK 2004
Director: Nadia Roden
Composer: Dan Schreier
Producer: Nadia Roden
This was made for the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York, to screen as the opening of a play. It was projected just as Constantine Trip, a young entertainer, shot himself in the head. These are his thoughts. (He came from a family of entertainers and was himself an entertainer)

Figure[s] of Speech (3')
New Zealand 2004
Choreographer: Daniel Belton and the dancers
Director: Daniel Belton
Dancers: Daniel Belton, Val Smith, Alys Longley
Composer: Kano, dBel
Producer: Piaz Olgazzi, Jacdaniel
Dance is [moving] Geometry.
We create ideologies and systems, project into, mark out, and imprint our journeys on each other and the world around us. Our responding to words and language means placing these interpretations inside a kind of ‘living library’ within each of us. Everything is archived in our cells. Our life journeys are recorded and coded into us as we create them. Dance is regarded as the oldest of the arts, requiring only the body as its instrument. Just as the child learns to gesture and to walk before speaking, so is it believed that communication began in the earliest times through movement. The maker hopes to convey a kind of unwrapping in this process. This can also be related to the post modern concept of unpacking: going back into the object or story and seeing it as the product of situations in culture.

Feats of Hercules(10')
Russia
Director: Sergei Ovcharov
All of the art of Sergei Ovcharov is connected with myths, folklore and humor. He desires to create a modern mythology using the unexplored possibilities of television technology.
The Thunderer Zeus gave birth extamartital son Hercules. The wife of Zeus Hera jealously persecuted him. Hercules's life was cruel violence and worthless feats.
The film will take the viewer not only on a journey through the history of the decorative and figurative arts, the crafts and the inventions.

Suite (5')
Spain 2003
Choreographer: Juann Bernardo PINEDA
Director: Rubén DÍAZ DE GREÑU/Juan Bernardo PINEDA
Dancers: Juan Bernardo PINEDA
Composer: Antonio VIVALDI
Producer: Rubén DÍAZ DE GREÑU/Juan Bernardo PINEDA
Suite represents the movement as the language between the dancer and a camera. The makers have worked with no reference on any story at all. The work consists in the pure formality of the choreography of the dancer movements and those of the camera, and the montage through the alipsis and sinecdoques, as they are literary figures that are applicated to the cinema language, in object to give continuity in the space, in movement and in time.

Mazopo (3')
France
Director: Luli Barzman
In his Kinshasa neighborhood, singer Bebson de la Rue (Bebson of the Street) and his group Trionix give us three minutes of exuberant performance in a wild version of their own composition Mazopo. The neighbors get into the act and the whole streets rocks. The joy of ragamuffin in the Congo...

The Invited (14')
Canada 2004
Choreographer: Meg Stuart
Director: Jonathan Inksetter
Dancers: Loup Abramovici, Simone Aughterlony, Joséphine Evrard, Antonija Livingstone, Sam Louwyck, Andreas Müller, Vania Rovisco, Thomas Wodianka.
Composer: Jonathan Inksetter
De Canadese artiest Jonathan Inksetter herinterpreteerde, vanuit zijn persoonlijke invalshoek, een specifieke scène uit ‘Visitors Only’(2004), een creatie van Meg Stuart en Damaged Goods.
De personages van ‘Visitors Only’ hebben geen geheugen meer en hun waarneming is verstoord, verbrokkeld in visioenen en vluchtige boodschappen. Hier verwordt het lichaam tot een zender en ontvanger van fragmenten, handelingen, beeld-, energie- en geluidssignalen; een transitzone waarin droom en werkelijkheid elkaar passeren.

Cost of Living (40')
U.K., 2004
Choreographer/director Lloyd Newson,
This film takes us to a faded seaside town where street performers David and Eddie struggle to find work and romance. This film, from the Lloyd Newson of the celebrated DV8 dance company, hurls provocations and scalding humour at notions of how the fit and unfit are supposed to act. Winner of the Audience Award at the VideoDance 2004 in Athens and Thessaloniki; and the Paula Citron Award at the Moving Pictures Festival in Toronto.
David and Eddie are street performers struggling to get by in a seaside town. The Cost of Living follows them as they work, argue, fail at romance and fall out with old friends.
The Cost of Living is part dance film, part drama. The stories are told through a combination of stylised movement and dialogue. All of the stories are about how we value ourselves and other people… the cost of living…
DV8 have made work for the stage since 1986. The Cost of Living is their fourth film, and is choreographed and directed by Lloyd Newson.

Black Grace (70')
New Zealand 2004
Choreographer: Neil Ierensia
Director: Aileen O’Sullivan
Dancers: Tai, Mal, Sam, Tamihana, Sean, Daniel, Jeremy
Producer: Aileen O’Sullivan
‘Black Grace’ New Zealand’s Pacific all male dance company was invited to Jacob’s Pillow, one of the oldest, most prestigious dance festivals into the world. This is the story of the boys’ journey from Cannon Creek to Jacob’s Pillow and the demands of an international arena.
“I kind of still have to laugh at this idea of a kid from Cannon’s Creek and a bunch of his mates, some other cats from, you know, other places around the country, kind of getting together and arriving in Boston, Massachusetts, for one of the oldest dance festivals around and having all these wealthy, arty types come in and watch us. I mean, it’s, it’s, I don’t know, it’s really surreal.”

Ginga (55')
Brazil 2004
Director: Gustavo Moraes
Producer: Mary Jane Marcasiano, Gustavo Moraes
Ginga: a capoeira documentary, directed by Brazilian filmmaker Gustavo Moraes, is the story of how Jelon Vieira’s capoeira training inspired five young people from Boca do Rio, a poor district in the outskirts of Salvador. One of the basic movements in capoeira, the ‘ginga’ is performed by leaning on your front leg, then quickly swing your back leg across and in front so that your body swings effortlessly while in a crouching position. Ginga means ‘swing’ in Portuguese. It’s an essential element to the natural rhythm of Brazilian music, dance and spirit.

For a Tango (5')
USA 2004
Choreographer: Gabriele Zucchelli/Montserrat Roig de Puig
Director: Gabriele Zucchelli
Composer: Astor Piazzolla
Producer: Gabriele Zucchelli
A tango duel echoes the historical and emotional origin of the dance evolved from the immigrants to Buenos Aires.
Running from the First World War, a massive influx of immigrants arrive to
Buenos Aires. There were seven men to every one woman.
The tango, with bravado and skill, chases a dream and cries the distance of the
journey.
The film illustrates a duel and is inspired by true facts.
The manner in which the turn of the century Argentinean hoodlums challenged each other has been remembered in literature and music.
It has become an iconic image that shows the boldness of the first tango dancers.
This ostentatious rivalry was partly caused by the scarce number of women in the expanding capital and it couldn't have happened anywhere else but in the poorest and roughest corners of the city, lived in mostly by immigrants.
This is where the tango was born.
Visually, the intention of the film was to display the contrast between the elegance, the beauty and the sophistication of this confrontation with the brutal danger of holding their lives on the tip of a knife.
The emigration, which was so fundamental for the birth of this musical form, is a phenomenon we are still witnessing as our cities are getting more cosmopolitan.
Who are these people who leave their roots?
Do they know what they are looking for, or are they just running away?
As it happens they will be foreigners in their new country as they would eventually feel in their homeland. This film is dedicated also to these people, who lived through these conflicts.


Tango octogenario (5')
UK 2003
Choreographer: Nancy Turano
Director: David Licata
Dancers: Alex Turney, Jean Turney, Paul Albe
Composer: Astor Piazzolla
Producer: Tom Razzano
From its use of nonactors to its old-Hollywood lighting, from its opening shot on New York City’s Lower East Side to its old-Hollywood lighting, from its opening shot on New York City’s lower East Side to its primary setting inside a ghostly ballroom. Tango Octogenario tells its story in a manner that threads the line between grim reality and fairly tale. This stylization suits the exploration of the film’s themes: the hidden lives of marginalized people, the elderly as viat contributors to society, the curative powers of art, and the power of art to forge bonds. Its most salient characteristic, the portrayal of seniors as active, vibrant, and independent, is a much-needed antidote to the stereotypical representations of America’s greying population.
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Past Bedtime (14')
Norway 2004
Choreographer: Kirstin Hauksdottir
Director: Kirstin Hauksdottir
Dancers: Eugenia Parilla, Mariano Chicho Frumboli
Composer: Astor Piazzolla, Milonga del Angel, Decarissimo
Producer: Kirstin Hauksdottir
A Whimper, a dance, a life. The quiet tango of a couple struggling to find time to be together.