Dance is Like a Fine Wine
- low-mobility-friendly dance class, dance film screening, and discussion with a local artist
- May 9, 2022 at 12pm
- June 13, 2022 at 12pm
- July 11, 2022 at 12pm
- August 8, 2022 at 12pm
- September 12, 2022 at 12pm
- October 10, 2022 at 12pm
- free to the public age 60 and better (registration required – register with the button below or by calling 303-441-3148)

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema is offering a series of new programs designed to introduce viewers to dance film, connect artists with audiences, and encourage movement and artistic expression in the community. Each in-person event will consist of a dance film screening, a discussion with a local filmmaker, 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) as well as dance documentaries, and the lineups will feature dancers from around the world with a focus on dancers across the age spectrum. Michelle Bernier, Co-Director of the Festival, will facilitate discussions with featured local artists, and dance teachers will rotate monthly. 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.

May 9, 2022 from 12-2pm
low-mobility-friendly dance class, dance film screening, and discussion with a local artist
free to the public age 60 and better
Tentative program below.

Samskara
2020 / United States / 7 min
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
2010 / United States / 10 min
SAND, a short experimental dance-for-camera documentary, tells the story of sand dance as it is passed down from father to son.

Imagenes De Una Realidad / Images Of A Reality
2020 / Mexico / 4 min

re’ver’ence
2013 / United States / 3 min
In light, shadow, and sound, simple steps taken with respect and awe.

Lay Me Low
2020 / Canada / 8 min
This Shaker mourning march cuts to the heart, communicating a universal feeling of loss while evoking a sense of intimacy.

Stopgap in Stop Motion
2016 / United Kingdom / 5 min
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.

June 13, 2022 from 12-2pm
dance film screening, discussion with a local artist, and low-mobility-friendly dance class
free to the public age 60 and better

Coil & Web
2020 / United States / 9 min
Bodies swirl and shift through Coil & Web, navigating natural elements and internal landscapes, contemplating the accelerating disconnect and the unseen entanglement of life forces on our planet. At the core of our being lies a code that defines us, a script that writes our story and interweaves our lives with others, making it evident that, even at our basic genetic level, we are 99.9% alike…more alike than we are different. This internal connection expands from living being to living being, creating an invisible web that is imperceptible to measure, yet omnipresent. Coil & Web journeys to a place where pushing past the noise and tuning in to a deeper connection aligns us on the same frequency, spiraling towards oneness and turning away from division.

SOHAM – The Swan
2019 / India / 6 min
In the West, Swan Song is an idiom often used to denote a final act or performance, in reference to the beautiful song the swan is believed to sing right before death. In contrast, the East perceives the Swan (Hamsa in Sanskrit) as a symbol of supreme consciousness – of life and freedom. The Swan is a homeless free wanderer, that swims on the surface of the water and soars into the air; at ease in both and not bound to either. In this film, the iconic ballet Dying Swan becomes a point of departure – compositionally, choreographically and metaphorically. SOHAM is the Immortal Swan Song of the East, performed in the movement language of Bharatanatyam (Indian Classical Dance) and a soundscape of Carnatic Music (Indian Classical Music).

Unspoken Spoken
2018 / United Kingdom / 18 min
Breaking down the rules that restrict us, those that lie within and those that lie without.

Groggy Grugg
2018 / United States / 4 min
A claymation screendance short film about that terrible every day struggle to get out of bed for that first delicious cup of coffee.

July 11, 2022 from 12-2pm
dance film screening, discussion with a local artist, and low-mobility-friendly dance class
free to the public age 60 and better

Juliet, Juliet & Juliet
2017 / Sweden / 9 min
Dancer Ana Laguna, actress Stina Ekblad, and choreographer/director Giovanni Bucchieri join forces in this expressive story about an unexpected meeting.

le passage du temps
2014 / United States / 8 min
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.

Dance With Your Heart (Tengo Talento Cuba)
2016 / United States / 10 min
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).

Gusts
2022 / United States / 3 min
A dance film about the ebb and flow of wind and the movement inspired by it.

Swarm Raid
2019 / United States / 4 min
The music and dance video Swarm Raid is a surreal trip to the grocery store inspired by an army ant swarm raid.

August 8, 2022 from 12-2pm
dance film screening, discussion with a local artist, and low-mobility-friendly dance class
free to the public age 60 and better

Confidence
2017 / Russian Federation / 2 min
Dance allegory of the state of confidence.

I Modh Rúin
2017 / Ireland / 11 min
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.

Digital Afterlives
2018 / Australia / 5 min
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
2020 / United Kingdom / 8 min
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.

Solitude, Darkness, Light
2016 / United States / 5 min
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.

In Wake of the Crashing Dawn
2020 / United States / 5 min
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.

September 12, 2022 from 12-2pm
dance film screening, discussion with a local artist, and low-mobility-friendly dance class
free to the public age 60 and better (registration link coming soon)
more information coming soon.

October 10, 2022 from 12-2pm
dance film screening, discussion with a local artist, and low-mobility-friendly dance class
free to the public age 60 and better (registration link coming soon)
more information coming soon.
The background image is a still frame from Since The Silence (2016, Canada) directed by Thomas Corriveau.
The foreground image is a still frame from Solitude, Darkness, Light (2016, USA) directed by Thomas Carr, Kayla Briët, and Isabela Dos Santos