SSF @ Texas State 2023

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.

Charmed dancers observe their own duet in a magical street art fantasy.

Aïpeur Foundou is a Congolese dancer and choreographer. Amidst some popular areas of Brazzaville, he shows us one possible way to freedom.

Woman and boy, table and chair, wall and water – a simple, powerful duet.

Combining choreography with improvisation, a company of young dancers creates an atmosphere of “parental absence” in an abandoned building.

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.

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

Kauã dances in the hill, like a bird of prey.

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.

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.

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.