Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema’s “Dance is Like a Fine Wine” program returns to the Age Well Center in Boulder in 2025 for a program designed to introduce viewers to dance film, connect artists with audiences, and encourage movement and artistic expression in the community. This in-person event will consist of a dance film screening, a discussion, and a dance class designed for movers of all mobility levels and types. Films shown will be screendances (an artistic medium that fuses choreography and cinematography) featuring dancers from around the world with a focus on dancers across the age spectrum. No dance experience necessary; come as you are, leave when you want!
West Age Well Center
909 Arapahoe Ave
Boulder, CO 80302
Accessibility: ADA accessible building, screening on the first floor, wheelchair seating available upon request.
August 1, 2025 from 1:30pm – 3:30pm
dance film screening, discussion, and low-mobility-friendly dance class
free to the public age 60 and up
Ode to Age
2024 / Finland / 8 min
Ode to Age portrays how wild, free and beautiful the aging body is, how pointless the fear of wrinkles and skin folds is. Ode to Age is a dance film about elderly women who have had enough of the colorlessness of life. Together, they take off their everyday clothes and by joyful and undisciplined throw themselves into the Finnish summer.
Lake Song
2024 / Australia / 13 min
Lake Song grew out of site-specific meditations and movement improvisations at Mirramu Creative Arts Centre and on the lakebed of Weereewa/Lake George, NSW, Australia. After twenty years of dry, we dance to celebrate the return of the water to Weereewa/Lake George. Canberra Dance Theatre’s GOLD dancers are 55 years and over. With an enviable national and international reputation, they challenge community stereotypes of who older people are and what they offer to society. Lake Song is the culmination of extensive work they have done with national dance treasure Elizabeth Cameron Dalman and the second project they have done with award winning filmmaker Sue Healey.
hOURS
2025 / Germany / 10 min
hOURS is an international encounter project between France and Germany, marking the 60th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty, bringing together humans, countries, generations and art. Created by Lisa Magnan & Daniel Bucurescu between March and June 2024, hOURS offered dance and music workshops for people aged 60+ in Lyon, as well as for young people in Hamburg, in order to accomplish artistic creations together. Opening hOURS artistically, the dance film is the culmination of a community-journey: it empowers non-professionals from both groups as performers (“Les Sixties”) and sound artists (“die Youngsters”).