A BREATH WITH PINA BAUSCH
Turkey, 2005 | 40 minutes | Director Hüseyin Karabey

The first showing of an account of the working method of Pina Bausch. The film quietly follows Bausch and her group Tanztheater Wuppertal in the unique and compelling creative process of the 2003 Istanbul project, which resulted in the dance production Nefes. Rehearsal scenes are alternated with poetic images of the final piece in the theatre and of city life in Istanbul.

SATURDAY 1 JULY DOCUMENTARY II
17.30 De Balie, Grote Zaal

ALT I ALT
All in all | Norway, 2004 | 4 minutes | Director Torbjørn Skårild

A diver is on the point of diving off the board into the deep end. Skårild manages to create the scene in such a way that you are swept along to the climax in a rhythm of movement and sound. The defiance of gravity is like a metaphor for freedom, but what lies under the surface of the water once a state of weightlessness is achieved? Anyone can fly, but only a few can land.

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS II
21.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal
SUNDAY 2 JULY SHORTS IN THE PARK

A.P.A.A.I.
Acontecimientos Posibles Aunque Altamente
Improbables, Possible Although Highly Unlikely Events | Spain, 2005 | 10 minutes | Director Guillem Morales | Choreography Erre que erre | Music Martín Sebastián Fuks and Vitor Joaquim

The film A.P.A.A.I. is a visual explosion of a moment that shatters into a thousand pieces. Three scenarios of a single happening in a lobby are an invitation to create detailed images. Feverish deliriums refer to a dream state where the orderline between reality and dreams is ransgressed and the only clear thing is the strange realisation that we are alive. Some of the events are possible – but extremely unlikely.

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS II
21.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

BREAK
New Zealand, 2006 | 14 minutes | Director Shona McGullagh | Music David Long

A long-term relationship between two lovers is nearing its end. In the rough landscape of New Zealand, a depressed mother takes the decision to leave her partner and nine-year-old son.
McGullagh creates an almost poetic image of the malaise of the relationship by interweaving a daring montage with a realistic and human event.

SATURDAY 1 JULY OCEANIA
19.30 De Balie, Kleine Zaal

BEAUTÉS CACHÉES / SALES HISTOIRES
South Africa / France, 2005 | 24 minutes | Director Robyn Orlin | Choreography Robyn Orlin

Last year, Robyn Orlin was a guest at Julidans with her production We must eat our suckers with the wrappers on. This year, Cinedans is showing her film Beautés cachées / sales histoires. This film
shows archive material of dancing mine workers from the period 1930-1980, alternating with her own work. Orlin investigated what still remains of this traditional dance form in the streets of Johannesburg and dived into the studio to choreograph new material inspired by these memories.

MONDAY 3 JULY MONDAY AFTERNOON
16.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

BUTTERFLY MAN
Australia, 2005 | 5 minutes | Director Samantha Rebillet | Music Jessica Wells

The mini documentary Butterfly Man tells the story of butterfly collector Don Herbison-Evans, who undergoes a personal metamorphosis through dance. The collector moves like a butterfly across
the dance floor! This moving portrait was shown already at the 2005 IDFA, but is ideal for the Cinedans programme. Dance and film lovers thus have a second opportunity to see it.

SATURDAY 1 JULY OCEANIA
19.30 De Balie, Kleine Zaal
SUNDAY 2 JULY SHORTS IN THE PARK
14.00 Filmmuseum Vondelpark, zaal 2

CIELO AZUL CIELO NEGRO
Argentina, 2003 | 84 minutes | Directors Paula De Luque, Sabrina Farji | Music Kevin Johansen

Four lonely characters, Violeta, Abel, Gabriel and Ana, tell their stories in four sections. Their stories form a unique plot driven by destiny. They are all coming to an end of part of their life and without realising it beginning a new chapter. Through the eye of Violeta’s camera, the viewer sees only her part of the story, which is a metaphor for how restricted people are through only being able to live for themselves.

TUESDAY 4 JULY ARGENTINA
20.00 De Balie, Kleine Zaal

CONTRAPUNTO
United States - France, 2004 | 2 minutes | Director Jean-Pierre Jacquet | Music Juanjo Mosalini, Pablo Pensavalle

In a cartoon animation, a dance couple lose themselves in the intimacy of the Argentinian tango. The wonderful music stirs the emotions, and the passion created between these two people is expressed by a sound, a movement, a glance and a trembling hand.

Saturday 1 July Shorts II
21.00  De Balie, Grote Zaal

DANCE WITHOUT DRUGS? WHY NOT NOW
Canada, 2005 | 3 minutes | Director Hans Camille
Vancol | Choreography Hans Camille Vancol | Music Giovanni Serpelloni

This short film tells the autobiographical story of a dancer who is reminiscing about his past, sweating in the present and visualising a future without drugs. Fuelled by art and self-discovery, this is a search for true identity with the goal of redemption.

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS I
13.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

DOS AMBIENTES
Argentina, 2004 | 15 minutes | Director Rodrigo Pardo | Choreography Rodrigo Pardo | Music Miguel Rausch

If all places are filled with the events that have taken place there, how many stories would fit into a 30m2 flat?
In his own flat, Pardo filmed the making of his production Cuadrado Negro Sobre Fondo Negro in his living room. Dos Ambientes is a witness to the world of an ar tist, including the Argentinian tango and a fight scene in Batman and Robin style.

FRIDAY 30 JUNE OPENING
22.30 Vondelpark Openluchttheater (free entrance)
SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS II
21.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal
DE FILMS THE MOVIES
Artist in Focus Julidans

DANCE WITH FARM WORKERS
China, 2001 | 50 minutes | Director Wu Wenguang | Choreography Wen Hui

This documentary films the creative process of the production of the same name, with ten professional dancers and actors and thirty former farmers from the poorer region of Sichuan province in China who, in the hope of a better life, have left for the city. This production was created and performed in a former textile factory where, today, an amusement park for the rich inhabitants of Peking has been built. The dance production and the documentary have briefly touched on the lives of these workers and shown their complexity, but they cannot change the workers’ destiny.

TUESDAY 4 JULY CHINA
17.00 De Balie, Kleine Zaal

DOUBLE SKIN / DOUBLE MIND
World premiere | Spain, 2006 | 50 minutes |
Director Maite Bermudez | Choreography Emio Greco|PC

The Spanish director Maite Bermudez followed the dance group Emio Greco | PC during their workshop process in Amsterdam and Vienna, and has visualised their ideas and curiosity about the body and their inner urge to create dance and movement. The aim of the documentary is to record duality and expression in dance on film.

MONDAY 3 JULY DOCUMENTARY IV
17.00 DE BALIE, GROTE ZAAL

FILM
United Kingdom, 2005 | 6 minutes | Director
Shelly Love

In a place far far away there is a factory where people test a common household product in strange and inventive ways. Love uses industrial rhythms and reverse techniques to portray her story in an absurd and sometimes almost humorous way.

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS I
13.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

FOLD
United Kingdom, 2004 | 3 minutes | Director Vena Ramphal | Choreography Vena Ramphal | Music Rama Gheerawo

Fold takes place between the external splendour of a costumed dancer and the emotional depth of her movements. The film deconstructs the visual language of classical South-Asian dance by close-up camera shots and choreography that is totally adapted for the camera. The spectator is given a view of South-Asian dance from an unusual, intimate perspective.

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS I
13.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

Mountain Air ( Höhenluft)
The Netherlands , 2005 | 25 minutes |
Director: Annick Vroom | Dance and choreograhy: Hans Hof Ensemble  

At an altitude of 2200 metres, far removed from daily life, a group of sophisticated people with diseased lungs try to escape the strict regime of the rest cure in any way they can. While the guests lie for hours under camel-hair blankets on the veranda, drinking litres of milk and consuming copious meals, time flies. During jolly sleigh rides and lavish dinner dances, they are eaten up by secret amorous desires and jealousies. mountain Air ( Höhenluft) shows the microcosm of a sanatorium at the beginning of last century.

Saturday 1 July Passion

18.30  De Balie, Grote Zaal

Sunday 2 July, Shorts in the Park

14.00 Filmmuseum Vondelpark, Zaal 2

I DREAM OF AUGUSTINE
Australia - United Kingdom, 2005 | 10 minutes |
Director Cordelia Beresford | Choreography Narelle
Benjamin | Music Huey Benjamin

An insane woman of today thinks she is in the
Salpetrière Hospital in Paris, which was famous in
the nineteenth century for the public display of the
young, hysterical woman Augustine. Observed by an
invisible doctor, the woman fights for her soul, while
she tries to get a grip on her body. Deep inner
turmoil and human insecurity is portrayed in powerful
dance movements and a terrifying calmness. The
woman’s story is told through snippets of thoughts
and fantasies.

SATURDAY 1 JULY OCEANIA
19.30 De Balie, Kleine Zaal

Iris
Germany 2004 | 5 minutes | Director:Lutz Gregor
Choreography: Prue Lang

Under the title Frankfurt Dance Cuts, Lutz Gregor made four films in collaboration with ex-dancers from Ballet Frankfurt, which is no longer in existence due to subsidy cuts. The dancers are taking their first choreographic steps in the form of these films, one of which is Iris, a short film noir about a woman, a man and a hotel room. The contrast between passion and passiveness brings this film to its climax.

Saturday 1 July Passion

18.30  De Balie, Grote Zaal

THE HUNT
Canada, 2005 | 4 minutes | Director Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer | Choreography Sharon Moore | Music Derek Aasland

The Hunt investigates the inner processes of a hunter. It shows the transformation from calmness to tension and extreme tension, the conditions that are summoned up to justify killing, the delirium and the gleefulness that hints at insanity once the prey has been shot and the satisfied feeling afterwards that brings the hunter back to his normal state once more.

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS I
13.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

JEG DIG ELSKER
I You Love | Denmark, 2004 | 24 minutes | Director Ulrik Wivel

In this film, the Danish dancer Nikolaj Hübbe, who is very experienced in dancing the great classics, works with director Ulrik Wivel to explain the meaning of the classic La Sylphide. They give a new look to Bournonville’s only tragedy by their way of rehearsing and filming. What happens to James on his wedding day when he takes a nap? What happens when he lets his passion speak out.. Is it just a dream, or…?

SATURDAY 1 JULY PASSION
18.30 De Balie, Grote Zaal

PHOTO BY JORIS JAN BOS

INSTANT STEPS
The Netherlands, 2005 | 50 minutes | Director Jellie Dekker | Music improvised by Mary Oliver, among others

Instant Steps is a documentary about contemporary dance improvisation, with formula 1 dancer Michael Schumacher as a guide. It is a personal story about ‘instant choreography’, portrayed in a light-hearted way. Jellie Dekker, director of dance films and programmes, became fascinated by the dancer Schumacher and the way in which he moves between different worlds: New York, Japan and Amsterdam. There are images of performances by ballet star Sylvie Guillem, meetings with choreographer Forsythe and improvisations by the collective MAGPIE,
in the alternative dance scene in Amsterdam.

SATURDAY 1 JULY DOCUMENTARY I
15.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

MA MÈRE L’OYE
Belgium, 2005 | 60 minutes | Director Thierry De Mey | Music Maurice Ravel

De Mey chose Ravel’s ballet Ma Mère l’Oye to
express a piece of choreography inspired by the fairytales of Charles Perrault. The material was created by inviting choreographer-dancers to portray a fairytale character in the setting of a forest. The movements are poetic suggestions and transport the spectator to dreamy worlds.
The film language reinforces the musical motifs and atmospheric sketches of Ravel’s composition through the use of split screens, double screens and full screen, thus linking the different dance scenes.

TUESDAY 4 JULY BELGIUM
18.00 De Balie, Kleine Zaal

MONTEVIDEOAKI
Urugay, 2005 | 5 minutes | Director Octavio Iturbe | Music S20

Montevideoaki is the filming of the solo performance While going on a Condition, by Hiroaki Umeda. In a snappy and rhythmic montage, we see Umeda against different, very atmospheric, city backdrops of Montevideo, Uruguay.

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS I
13.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal
SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS II
21.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal
SUNDAY 2 JULY SHORTS IN THE PARK
14.00 Filmmuseum Vondelpark, Zaal 2

NASCENT
Australia / United Kingdom, 2005 | 10 minutes | Director Gina Czarnecki

The film Nascent is difficult to describe. It is a
film and an installation at the same time, and its hybrid form places it somewhere between visual art, experimental media, technology and dance. Raw film material from the Australian Dance Theatre dancers is completely ‘distorted’ and transformed in the post-production of the film, creating alienating, rhythmic and almost indistinguishable forms of the human body.
In collaboration with computer programmers,
bioscientists and sound artists, Czarnecki reflects in Nascent on the ‘modern man’ and the possible corruption of his genetic material.

Nuns’ Night Out
Australia , 2005 | 10 minutes     
Director: Samuel James  |
Choreographer Julie-Anne Long

This absurdist dance fantasy tells the story of a group of nuns who have arrived in a landscape in and around the historic village of Hill End . As evening falls, the nuns get ready for an evening out at the local theatre. Through hallucinatory and surreal images, their veils of propriety are gradually removed and untameable, deeply sensual desires come to the surface.

Saturday 1 July Oceania

19.30  De Balie, Kleine Zaal

PANDORA
New Zealand, 2005 | 8 minutes | Director Alyx Duncan | Choreography Alyx Duncan | Music Brigid Ursula Bisley and Helen Bowater

One day, a young girl is washed up on the beach and is found by a mysterious recluse. In the remote surroundings, a subtle and intimate relationship springs up between the two female characters. How do you deal with a human body that is lifeless? How do you dress it and how do you break the ties that join people without spilling blood?

SATURDAY 1 JULY OCEANIA
19.30 De Balie, Kleine Zaal
SUNDAY 2 JULY SHORTS IN THE PARK
14.00 Filmmuseum Vondelpark, Zaal 2

POD
United Kingdom, 2005 | 3 minutes | Director
Shelly Love

In her film Pod, the British artist Shelly Love
shows a bizarre encounter between her
characters and a couple of white cloths that lead their own rhythmic lives by way of reverse technique. An imaginative and absurdist little work of art in which you become ‘wrapped up’ for a few minutes.

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS I
13.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal
SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS II
21.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal
SUNDAY 2 JULY SHORTS IN THE PARK
14.00 Filmmuseum Vondelpark, Zaal 2

REIMERSWAAL
The Netherlands, 2004 | 7 minutes | Director Clara van Gool | Choreography Suzy Blok | Music Vincent van Warmerdam

The starting point for this film is the poem
Reimerswaal, by Gerrit Achterberg. We are witness to a crime of passion. A young couple experience their last fatal moments in a dance in and under water.

FRIDAY 30 JUNE OPENING
20.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal
SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS II
21.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

SABUROTESHIGAWARA,DANSERL’INVISIBLE
France, 2005 | 57 minutes | Director Elisabeth Coronel

In this film, the Japanese choreographer Saburo
Teshigawara, a leading artist in his own country,
shows his remarkable world for the first time. His
work in different cities is looked at in detail. The film tries to answer the questions of how his world came into being, how he makes his artistic choices and what the source of his unique vocabulary is. It looks at which experiences have made him into the versatile artist he is today: an exceptional dancer, costume and scenery designer for his own pieces and a video artist.

SUNDAY 2 JULY DOCUMENTARY III
16.00 De Balie, Kleine Zaal

SEAWALL
United States, 2004 | 20 minutes | Director Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad | Choreography Olive Bieringa, Otto Ramstad and all the dancers

Seawall is a physical and sensorial nvestigation of the seawall, water and rocky shore of Lake Superior, the world’s largest ice-cold fresh water lake in Grand Marais, northern Minnesota. The dancers perform a playful ode to the ancient lake.

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS I
13.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

SONATA
Spain, 2005 | 2 minutes | Director Juan Bernardo Pineda | Choreography Juan Bernardo Pineda | Music Antonio Vivaldi

Sonata is a dance film in which the choreography of the camera and that of the two dancers are opposed to one another. But, thanks to the work of the editor, a unique short film has been created in which dance and film go hand in glove.

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS II
21.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

TV FU
The Netherlands, 2006 | 3 minutes | Director
Soultrotter | Choreography Raphael Hillebrand and Master Ken

TV FU is an over-the-top, no-budget film showing that everything and everyone is battling one another nowadays. Even two friends watching TV together get into a fight over the remote control. Life is war!

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS II
21.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal
SUNDAY 2 JULY SHORTS IN THE PARK
14.00 Filmmuseum Vondelpark, Zaal 2

TRA LA LA ( winner public PIZE 2006)
United Kingdom, 2004 | 3 minutes | Director Magali Charrier | Choreography Magali Charrier | Music Jules Maxwell

Three young women transport us to an imaginary world from their past. We see a poetic reflection on a brief recollection of childish innocence that takes us back to our own childhood memories. A lighthearted combination of real images and chalk
drawings are reminiscent of Saint - Exupéry’s ‘Little Prince’ who, full of conviction, sees in the drawing of a hat a snake that has just devoured an elephant. Childish imagination is an art form in its own right that sometimes appears to have been forgotten by adults.

TRANSCENDENTAL SUITE
United States, 2005 | 10 minutes | Director Mimi Garrard | Choreography Mimi Garrard | Music Part I Tom McGrath, Part II Daniel Bernard Roumain

Transcendental Suite is the sequel to two previous films in which director and choreographer Garrard wants to look further than our reality. In Transcendental Suite, Garrard explores her inner life in relation to the macrocosm. The split-screen editing makes it seem as if you are watching a moving mandala that takes you into space or into the depths of a soul.

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS I
13.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

TREMOR
United Kingdom, 2005 | 4 minutes | Director Ravi Deepres | Choreography Wayne McGregor

In the industrial setting of a Hush House (soundproofed room), a woman dances to an increasingly insistent rhythm. The mechanical beats and dark bass drive her to a climax in which her body can no longer fight the power of the sound. Shrill and overpowering beats create an apocalyptic experience in which the battle appears to remain undecided.

SATURDAY 1 JULY SHORTS I
13.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

VALSE WALS
The Netherlands, 2005 | 60 minutes | Director Mark de Cloe

Valse Wals is a filming of three theatre pieces of Orkater, blended to an xceptional film, and directed by Mark de Cloe. Ria Marks and Titus Tiel Groenewege interpret the characters in the story with great conviction. They dance wonderfully,
and are very moving in their mutual dependence as they grow old and grey together. This is a film about a man and woman who cannot live with each other, but who also cannot live without each other.

FRIDAY 30 JUNE OPENING
20.00 De Balie, Grote Zaal

WEDDING DAY
Uruguay, 2004 | 5 minutes | Director Florencia Varela | Music Van Morrison and The Chieftains

In her dreams, a charming, long-legged woman manipulates love in front of the camera. She creates a universe in which she endlessly kisses and dances with a man, like a happy bride and groom. This is the world of love till death us do part.

SATURDAY 1 JULY PASSION
18.30 De Balie, Grote Zaal

Artist in focus; Clara van Gool  

Clara van Gool graduated in 1985 from the Dutch Film and Television Academy and since then, has worked on script continuity and as a director’s assistant on various Dutch films. She has been directing her own films since 1988. Many of you will be familiar, in particular, with Enter Achilles, the filming of the piece of the same name by DV8 Physical Theatre, from 1996. The film received no less than six different awards (including the International Emmy Award, Performing Arts, New York in 1997). For the festival, we have chosen a small retrospective covering the period 1988 up to the present.

Reservaat
The Netherlands, 1988
8 minutes

Reservaat was Van Gool’s first film on leaving the film academy. This film was nominated for a ‘Gouden Kalf’ award and was the Dutch entry for the Oscars that year. The film shows a duet by two woman in a deserted park.

Bitings and other effects
The Netherlands , 1995 , 30 minutes  

In this film, adapted from a scenario by Angelika Oei, Van Gool is inspired by the Southern Italian tarantella dance, in which the bite of the tarantella spider produces alternating bouts of drowsiness and frantic dancing. Against the backdrop of an Italian villa in Renaissance style, and with the chaotic sounds of the Palermo streets, the film shows how the bitten dancers are overcome with searing pain and an irrepressible urge to dance. This film receive a ‘Gouden Kalf’ award in 1995.

Courzand
The Netherlands , 1993
7 minutes  

In collaboration with the choreographer Angelika Oei, Van Gool make a film about two men and two women who meet each other in a sultry harbour bar name Courzand. This film is part of the series 4tokenS-I; a series of short dance films

Nussin
The Netherlands , 1998
15 minutes  

A wild party in a bolck of flats in a former Eastern bloc country has a fatal end. It is winter and two couples dance the tango. But they are actually alone, in their own flat. The dance film Nussin is inspired by the dance production Ocho. Nussin has won awards in the Netherlands and abroad, including a ‘Gouden Kalf’ in 1998.

Tussen twee huizen
The Netherlands, 2006
42 minutes  

In a big, anonymous city, Oscar and Stella are looking after their neighbour’s apartment while he’s away. As they each enter the unfamiliar room separately, their imaginations are fired in different ways. When Stella encounters a sleeping man in the apartment, her marriage to Oscar is put to the test. Tussen twee huizen is about the conflict between what you see and what you think you see or want to see. An intense, physical and humorous film about the pendulum between routine and excitement, between the familiar and the unfamiliar.

Artist in Focus: Clara van Gool
Saturday 1 July
16.00  De Balie, Grote Zaal

PROPOS DE BUT I LOVE YOU
Canada, 1992 | 3 minutens and 30 seconds |
Director Patrice Masbourian

In a short interview from 1982, choreographer Daniel Léveillé tells how he created the dance production But I love You in that same year. Léveillé made the production by first making sketches and then going into the studio with the dancers. It became a performance about passion and he describes his working method like this: “Drawing is like making love to the paper and choreographing is like making love to space”.

PHOENIX DANCE
United States, 2006 | 22 minutes | Director Karina Epperlein | Choreography Alonzo King, Edisa Weeks and Homer Avila | Music several composers

It seems impossible – but after losing a leg to cancer, dancer Homer Avila returns to the stage, performing a duet with Andrea Flores,
choreographed by Alonzo King. In ehearsals, King says that the trials of life force you to prove who you really are. The audience is witness to a man with great determination, skill and courage. Every viewer is moved by the beauty of imperfection combined with wonderful choreography.

During the festival Duda di Paiva de Souza will perform with his wicked puppet!!!