SSF@MSU Denver’s Performance Art Week: “Dance Cinema – Small Bites”

Inspired by Greek mythology, Chimera features acrobatic dance performances and highly aesthetic kaleidoscopic movements.

A claymation screendance short film about that terrible every day struggle to get out of bed for that first delicious cup of coffee.

Tide contrasts the pace of industry with human movement, and the soft yielding nature of the body with the hard edges of manmade objects.

To perceive, from the Greek “touch at a distance.” Absent Presence is the surreal journey of a disconnected body in an attempt to find itself in the spaces of an empty house. A game of perceptions, between the ambiguity of reflections and distorted shadows, which leads the viewers to wonder about the relativity of what they are watching: “What is real to us? What can I move and what moves me?”

Slow motion dancers in vivid colors combined with kaleidoscope editing to form a dazzling moving geometry.

Close your eyes. You have a minute. It’s a lot and not enough. Breathe. Ask your roommate, who is an actress, to help you. 50 seconds. Arrange a barter with a friend who will be able to make music in exchange for logos. 45 seconds. There are two ways to do things quickly: short and sweet or quick and dirty and that’s always too dirty, too late, and too quick. But don’t worry, you have time. 30 seconds. Run…a love letter to DIY films. AUDIENCE WARNING: This film contains a strobe effect that may be unpleasant for photosensitive viewers.

A community-based dance film that explores the construction of identity and democracy through navigating everyday poetics and pressures, finding belonging at intersecting social systems, and embodying artifacts of personal and collective histories.