SSF @ UNC 2025

Inspired by Kintsugi, the traditional Japanese craft of repairing broken ceramics using lacquer mixed with gold and the belief that something can be more beautiful through the stresses endured. Seiwert asked herself: coming out of an era that broke many of us, can we be re-formed? Can we create something both stronger and more beautiful?

It is a search and recognition of the identity of fraternal twin dancers. We share similar genes, but we are also searching for our own unique identity. We have both harmony and conflict, similarities and differences between us. We Feeling the complexity of identity and the importance of finding one’s unique position. This is our dialogue with the environment, as well as our dialogue with our own souls.

Videogram produced from the music of Alban Richard’s choreographic show, Fix Me, composed by Arnaud Rebotini. 10 performers call out to the audience one at a time in a frontal and direct manner. The camera gaze is penetrating and almost permanent. but the 10 performers remain silent. Instead of words, techno music settles in crescendo as the performers try to convince us using their bodies as an extensive language of persuasion.

Sonia works for a cubicle rental company. Her passionless job chains her to a soulless screen where she mechanically executes tasks under the trance of neon lights, lost in the shadows of corporate servitude. When a fraudulent call triggers the void of her work station, Sonia’s pent-up frustration erupts, unleashing a storm of chaos, It’s the breaking point she’s been waiting for. Fraudulations humorously explores her descent into madness, through the endless, winding corridors of her workplace propelled by an uplifting soundtrack.

Eeny meeny miny humpy not your son nor your daughter eeny meeny rumpy-pumpy cling cling lamb for slaughter. Which species is the biggest predator? Behind seven lakes, seven hills, seven forests, there is a seemingly idyllic land. And in it, as if by magic, an unexpected meeting happens not only once but three times. The first time, as if from a flying carpet, we see an animalistic figure in the thicket. The second time, we observe a frisky animal herd colliding with otherness. For the third and final meeting, the moment when a man enters the ordered world of nature. How does the relationship between animals differ from the relationship between humans and animals? This is asked by the creators of the sixth choreographic film project by the Polish Dance Theatre.

Using movement, sound and architecture, this film explores the cycle of life – birth, death and rebirth. The female figure is the symbol of unification, she represents the unity and wholeness of life on Earth.

Thousands of hours of exhausting work for three minutes of fame. One day in the life of Elisa Carrillo Cabrera, principal dancer of the Staatsballett Berlin. From early morning, strenuous training and rehearsals fill her day. She has to be even better than yesterday, despite pain and fatigue, to go on the stage in the evening and be a Prima. Learn more about the film.

This is a one minute dance film interpretation of a woman experiencing the confusing and schizophrenic nature of loss. Confronting many versions of herself and the beginning of the healing process.

At daybreak on a country road, a young couple returns from a restless night visibly exhausted. Angry with each other the couple will in a magnetic dance try to reconcile.