part of our screening partner program
Sans Souci is teaming up with Peak Academy of Dance for our first ever collaboration! The films selected – listed below – represent our 20th Anniversary Showcase, with some of our favorite films from our twenty year archive. The work of 14 filmmakers from around the world includes numerous dance forms and film styles, from narrative to abstract and even claymation! Open to the public and offered for the Colorado mountain community, this beginner-friendly program is a great first step into the world of dance cinema!
Indigo Bridge Theater
26437 Confier Rd
Conifer, CO 80433
program of films
This screening runs approximately 75 minutes.
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.
Animalz
2007 / United Kingdom / 3 min
Sergio Cruz’s film Animalz takes the urban B-Boy Skills of Brighton and Hove’s B3 Boys into the city’s surrounding natural landscapes. Co-choreographed by BBC Strictly Dance Fever’s JP Omari, the sixteen 8-14 year-old dancers were encouraged to bring out the animal in themsleves. Shot on location in Brighton at Stanmer Park, Devil’s Dyke and Telscombe Beach.
Off Ground
2013 / Netherlands / 12 min
Woman and boy, table and chair, wall and water – a simple, powerful duet. Learn more.
Elon + Emmanuelle
2012 / United States / 7 min
Charmed dancers observe their own duet in a magical street art fantasy.
HOME ALONE
2013 / Israel / 2 min
Combining choreography with improvisation, a company of young dancers creates an atmosphere of “parental absence” in an abandoned building.
Moving Yerevan
2014 / Armenia / 8 min
This short marries the people of Yerevan — the capital of Armenia and one of the world’s oldest continually inhabited cities — with the modern day metropolis. Created in public spaces in 3 days and 3 nights.
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.
Never Standing Still: Hong Kong Ballet’s 40th Anniversary
2019 / United States / 2 min
After successfully redefining Hong Kong Ballet’s brand last year, our goal this year — their 40th anniversary — was to establish Hong Kong Ballet as an institution of national prestige and reach new audiences with the Ballet’s vision. the people of Hong Kong needed to see themselves reflected in the Ballet. Our strategy led us to blend traditional and pop-culture colors, tutus and street clothes, Chinese opera-inspired and contemporary makeup, and a backdrop of iconic Hong Kong landmarks to celebrate the Ballet’s heritage and its spirit of innovation. Hong Kong Ballet, like the city itself, is “Never Standing Still.” The film went viral and earned more than 2 million views.
T.I.A. (THIS is Africa)
2015 / France / 7 min
Aïpeur Foundou is a Congolese dancer and choreographer. Amidst some popular areas of Brazzaville, he shows us one possible way to freedom.
Erêkauã
2021 / Brazil / 1 min
Kauã dances in the hill, like a bird of prey.
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.
Amser / Time
2022 / United Kingdom / 6 min
Moving through time along Bae Ceredigion/Cardigan Bay, we arrive at today’s climate crisis. Sarn Gynfelyn is revealed every low tide and looks like a road into the sea. In fact, it is a glacial moraine laid down 20,000 years ago when ice sheets melted, and it marks the beginning of the global conditions that have enabled human expansion. At Borth, a 6,000 year old forest flourished for a few thousand years. Submerged by the sea, it has since been re-exposed in recent storms. Sarn Gynfelyn and Borth’s forest are both cited as supporting the Cantre’r Gwaelod legend of lost fertile lands in Cardigan Bay, but the geology tells a different story. Moving forwards, we arrive at Fairbourne, a seaside town built on saltmarsh and English industrial wealth. It is now set to become the first UK town to be decommissioned due to sea level rise. It will be demolished and returned to salt marsh and will have existed for less than 200 years. In the intertidal zone, between land and sea, three people move, with arresting visual imagery through these three remarkable sites.
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COLD STORAGE
2016 / Finland / 9 min
COLD STORAGE is a short dance film that pays homage to the virtuosic physical performances and melancholy comedy of the classic silent screen. On a desolate arctic shore, a lonely fisherman discovers his prehistoric counterpart frozen in the ice, and thaws him out as his newfound soul brother.