SSF @ Museum of Boulder: Festival Premiere 2026

As daylight falls, La Fée Électricité (The Goddess of Electricity) awakens beneath Paris, charged to bring light to the streets above. As she begins to move, she galvanises her power and emerges onto the streets of Paris, illuminating the city with electricity. By dawn, having danced all night her electric powers are overwhelmed by the daylight. By morning, her powers are extinguished. This is a short dance film filmed on location in Paris, featuring Royal Ballet soloist, Viola Pantuso. The story is built on the concept of “La Fée Électricité” – the personification of electricity in France in the late 1800s, as a woman, or fairy, who brought light and power to the people and streets.

Sheltering Gestures is a videodance that traces the ritual and spiritual movements revived by a group of young dancers who witnessed the gradual disappearance of the traditional Danza de las Tabliteras. Determined to bring it back to life, they learned its rhythms and choreography from the four remaining elders who still carried the dance in their bodies. Once again, these gestures echo the movements that decades ago filled the community of San Antonio, Bolívar, with pride, vitality, and collective spirit.

Martha Graham Company’s principal dancer Xin Ying embodies the spirit of the snake in a fluid metamorphosis. Drawing on themes of rebirth and reinvention, the dichotomy of repulsion and seduction, Ying’s dance improvisations evoke the Snake-woman motif in Chinese folklore and the Sorceress Medea in Graham’s “Cave of the Heart.”

An endless cycle. A dance of stagnation. A relationship’s rhythm, caught in a relentless tide, is about to break.

According to scientists, global warming may bring severe consequences to the future of humankind, and addressing this environmental crisis requires the collective effort of people across all nations. The digital ink–generated video art installation and dance performance Frost and Flame employs the textures of ink painting techniques and a visual language of geometric abstraction, combined with a color transition from cold to warm and a stylistic shift from structured geometry reminiscent of frozen ice to gestural abstraction evocative of water and fire. Together, these elements metaphorically portray the transformation of glacial ice as it melts — from frost to flame — issuing an urgent warning to humanity. In the final sequence, the re freezing of the text credit symbolizes the hope that, through unified human action, restoration remains possible. The integration of ink painting with environmental consciousness not only brings this classical art form into contemporary discourse on global ecological issues, but also allows Chinese cultural aesthetics to manifest renewed vitality in the digital era. Meanwhile, the immersive installation and dance performance reflect the profound wisdom embedded in classical Chinese culture and underscore the responsibility borne by humanity today.

Based on Wang Changling’s frontier poem “From the Army,” the film tells the story of war during the prosperous Tang Dynasty in China. Torches illuminate the depths of the cave, revealing ancient cave paintings that vividly depict the alternation of prosperity and war, recording the lives of early humans. When prosperity collides with war, countless small families are torn apart. At the end of the film, a white image symbolizes civilization, though it is cyclical, the club of life is reborn from destruction. So, what exactly has war brought to the world? It has prompted people to think.

Hammer is a 16mm music video at the crossroads of punk energy and contemporary dance. The camera turns away from the stage and dives into the pit, transforming a raw, chaotic pogo into a visceral and poetic choreographic experience. The film reclaims the mosh pit as a space of liberation, trance, and cinematic beauty.

Synopsis coming soon.

A disillusioned man steps into an elevator, lost in life and ridden of any passion and purpose. As the elevator ascends, each floor becomes a metaphorical stage of risk and bravery. First subtle, but as he ascends to the higher floors, life becomes more thrilling and exciting and eventually even dangerous. With each stop, his appetite for this adventure grows, pushing him to abandon caution and embrace the unknown. But as he nears the top, a force intervenes, warning him of the cost of excess. Refusing to be held back, he breaks free and forces the ascent to the highest floor. Ascent is a short dance film that plays with the concept of high risk, high reward, live a safe and shallow life or live a risky and more exciting, but also more stressful life. Where is the line?

In a decaying grand estate, an imagined affair unfolds between two lovers bound by their own inescapable gravity, as unseen eyes search the house and begin to see them everywhere.

A joyfully subversive punk rock dance film poem about identity and connection (or lack thereof) set in troubled times, that loops endlessly. Madeline (I am Not) is an interpretation of the poem about a woman “Madeline” by Gherasim Luca, translated by Michael Tweed and is (or is not) also a portrait of the artist Allison Beda. A dancer who isn’t, a choreography that wasn’t, a document of a guerilla-stye spectacle which happened live, on the street, but which also didn’t. A poem about one woman, used as a self-portrait of another.

When time stretches and choices torment, our freedom is revealed in all its beauty and chaos.

The future is a delicate dance of possibilities, where every choice and every moment shapes the path ahead. The fragility of what’s next reminds us to handle it with care, to nurture our dreams and aspirations, and to believe in the limitless potential of tomorrow. Time is a valuable currency.

Drenched is a dance film embodied exploration of what it means to be a fully feeling human in a deeply repressed society. May our collective un-numbing tear down the systems that keep us separate.

A surreal short film exploring the inner light we have when we express ourselves.

What if, within the breath of one body, the echo of another was already resonating? In a vital surge where every movement becomes a cry, nine dancers unveil their inner struggle across shifting landscapes: sea, cliff, city, dance studio, ancient theatre. Nine singular territories. Each surrenders to raw improvisation — a moment of questioning rooted in their intimate space — where movement becomes the language of urgency: to be, to resist, to exist. Bodies answer, intertwine, and merge in an organic continuity, weaving bridges between their solitary battles. Living echoes of an invisible geometry, uniting bodies beyond forms and boundaries. What if what seemed isolated was already part of a vaster, elusive movement?

On waiting, the body of time unravels.

Inspired by The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, this film explores through ballet the grotesque transformation of a man into an insect, tracing his struggle with fear and confusion as he confronts and ultimately loses, his sense of self.

Synopsis coming soon.

Agui Luz, survivor of the Tower of Aeries collapse, seeks refuge from his survivor’s guilt at a mysterious clinic — only to find himself caught in a deeper test, one that may reveal a calling he’s spent years trying to escape.