Film Social: Dance Cinema

Cut Me Summa Dat Noise celebrates the rhythms of everyday life through the eyes of a neighborhood matriarch who sets the tone for a new day with the beat of her own heart. As the neighborhood comes to life, people of all ages unite in a joyous cacophony of sound that illuminates the connections between them as members of a vibrant and diverse community in rhythm.

A pianist’s fantasy. Rachmaninoff’s masterpiece interpreted as a b-boy round.

A portrait of star ballerina, Lauren Cuthbertson, returning to dance after having a baby.

As light fades as a metaphor for the passage of time, dancers reflect on their experiences thus far as their younger selves transform into their present day selves, each moment more precious than the last.

Join us above the Los Angeles skyline as one life-loving woman makes a surprise entrance. Commanding the attention of the entire party, she ignites the day and sparks connections between the Angelenos. You never know what might happen at a party in L.A., but “That’s Life” in Los Angeles!

A poignant and timely reflection through the eyes of a child on our human impact on the natural world. The legacy of our time is the challenge for generations to come. Understanding our human impact on the natural world and environment the film negotiates time, scale and innocence while reflecting on ways of seeing, belonging and connecting to our natural world.

Offering creates a meaningful convergence between the Migration Dance Film Project’s body percussion artists and emerging artists from dance (gigue, contemporary, street) and circus arts. The choreography uses the power of procession in Montreal’s urban borough of Little Burgundy to amplify its storyline of (re)imagined homescape in the era of mid-pandemic. The procession formed by movement artists from across communities weaves its way through urban corridors, neighbourhoods, green spaces — an uncoiled assemblage of nomadic storytellers anchored in the intimate knowledge of individual and shared experiences in unison. Offering imbues movement in stillness within our city and takes refuge in its powerful migratory patterns traced across our urbanscape.

At Tutu Academy, where tutus are the uniform, students of all characters (geeks to goths) express themselves through ballet—and bizarro hair. One odd day, a UFO lands and an alien enters the classroom. Eager to connect with the visitor who doesn’t speak earthly language, the teacher starts a dance conversation—followed by the entire class. At first, the alien struggles to learn the artful language, until he’s gifted a magical tutu. With fresh confidence, the green-hued stranger joyfully joins the dancing crew.

I heard once that hope is just a memory of the future. What a beautiful perspective on something that offers so much light throughout life. To challenge the normal flow of time and acknowledge that we somehow have already experienced the future shows us that the present moment will soon give way to what we hoped for. Our choice to follow a path that leads us to our biggest dreams is just retracing our steps. Memories of the future. How magnificent.

One night in Buenos Aires, a group of friends gather at a milonga (Tango Social Club) to enjoy a challenging dance piece in the form of a “fugue,” where emotions seep through their bodies and they immerse themselves in every note of each melody offered by this exciting and mysterious contrapuntal composition by the great Argentine musician Astor Piazzolla.

Boy meets girl at a coffee shop, and the two are thrown into a mud wrestling ring to find a common path forward, while their best friends act as coaches.