SSF @ Age Well Center: Dance is Like a Fine Wine

An abstracted film to contribute to the fight against racism. As an immigrant, I have experienced it first hand. This film showcases the beauty and richness of humanity. Nine cultures unite to make art. The dancers will tell you what brings humanity together. We must come together. This project was funded by the Utah Film Commission, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, and BYU Arts Partnership.

SAND, a short experimental dance-for-camera documentary, tells the story of sand dance as it is passed down from father to son.

In light, shadow, and sound, simple steps taken with respect and awe.

This Shaker mourning march cuts to the heart, communicating a universal feeling of loss while evoking a sense of intimacy.

Performers in disabled and non-disabled dance company “Stopgap” move in and out of photos and across tabletops until the whole company meet and perform in unison.

Dancer Ana Laguna, actress Stina Ekblad, and choreographer/director Giovanni Bucchieri join forces in this expressive story about an unexpected meeting.

Danced by three couples of different ages, boy and girl meet on a beach and their love binds them as they dance together through life.

Jennyselt Galata, internationally renown dancer and teacher of Afro Cuban Folklore in Cuba, seeks her successor in preserving the legacy of Afro-Cuban dance among the youth dancers of Juanelo (Havana).

A dance film about the ebb and flow of wind and the movement inspired by it.

The music and dance video Swarm Raid is a surreal trip to the grocery store inspired by an army ant swarm raid.

Dance allegory of the state of confidence.

What would compel you to go against the status quo and bring up your family as Irish speakers in English-speaking Ireland of the 1950s to 1980s? In I Modh Rúin (in secret), Ríonach Ní Néill blends film, dance, interviews and music to tell the story of five women who did just that.

A witty and whimsical meditation on free will, identity and the afterlife. A narrative made through the collision of unlikely elements: dance, digital code, Franz Liszt, and playful echoes across the history of onscreen physical storytelling, paying homage to films like Modern Times and The Red Shoes. A man in white-winged angel shoes is awakened, then multiplied and manipulated through all the dimensions of infinite black, finally to be returned to his original form and spat out onto the junk heap of history.

Wake is a short dance film which explores and responds to modern attitudes around loss and grief, taking inspiration from different rituals and funeral traditions from around the world. Filmed on the stark and shifting terrain of Dartmoor, Wake steers us through one woman’s journey of grief.

In a blend of abstraction and realism, Solitude, Darkness, Light explores the confluence of place, time, people and emotions. Contrasting worlds of the future and the past and the still and the moving take the viewer across time in search of a new perspective on the present, as experienced through the lenses of sounds, animation and imagery.

A young Japanese-American man seeks guidance from the past in order to overcome his modern identity crisis. Meanwhile in 1942, his great grandfather escapes an incarceration camp.