In a collection of narrative screendance shorts, artists tell universal stories through the intimately personal language of movement.
Narrative Shorts: Stories in Motion
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Women’s voices take center stage to showcase the diversity of their life experiences and perspectives. Dancers traverse space and time through moving portraits, intimate relationships, and collective dances of solidarity and celebration, revealing women’s stories in the fullness of their complexity. Social issues come to the fore to highlight the impacts of domestic abuse, political repression, and oppressive beauty standards while celebrating the resilience of women who find the strength to overcome adversity.
Women’s voices take center stage to showcase the diversity of their life experiences and perspectives. Dancers traverse space and time through moving portraits, intimate relationships, and collective dances of solidarity and celebration, revealing women’s stories in the fullness of their complexity. Social issues come to the fore to highlight the impacts of domestic abuse, political repression, and oppressive beauty standards while celebrating the resilience of women who find the strength to overcome adversity.
In “Vivaldi Spring I” a group of young dancers spring to joyous life, surrounded by dramatic mountain landscapes.
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“Contresens” captures one Parisian woman’s irrepressible rebellion against conformity.
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“If I Were You” traces the frustrations and comforts of an embattled relationship through an extended, emotionally evocative duet.
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In a short movement ode to city life, “Slowly” evokes the contemplative loneliness of a rainy Paris street through one woman’s perspective.
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In “Healing Wounds & Painting the Skies,” a Native American dancer voices her experiences navigating the world of ballet and finding solace in community.
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“Prisoner” reckons with domestic abuse and the subjugation of women through mechanisms of power and control.
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The many sides of every woman inhabit “Gemini Ascendant Gemini,” an expressive ode to the multiplicities within.
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Fate takes hold in “Druid,” a moonlit wintry night’s encounter between a forlorn woman and a mysterious creature.
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Traditional and modern Chinese aesthetics converse and converge in “My Role, My Life.”
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“Fraudulations” humorously explores one working woman’s descent into madness as reaches her breaking point and attempts to dance her way out.
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