Women’s History Month Virtual Screening 2025

You Are Enough encourages self-acceptance and growth through embracing imperfection! This dance film talks about identity, diversity, singularity. Follow 4 individuals on their journey sharing life’s singular moments and experimenting the beauty and complexity of humanity with poetry, sensibility, and humor. You Are Enough is an ode to self acceptance, it’s a love shoot to accept ourself as we really are and stop being afraid of not being beautiful/legitimate/smart/competent/interesting/… enough, for doing what we really want to do. This film is made through a series of sequence shots of almost 10min, where the dancers appear and disappear in the field of the screen, where the DOP, 5th dance partner, is creating a choreography with them as well.

A video dance that is bound to be beyond words and definitions. The wonder of creation grows inside us. Two parts are connected as one, experiencing a lifelong apart eagerly waiting for the wondrous encounter. A celebration of the body and empowerment of the soul mixed with overwhelming emotions. A video telling my story about the gift I received named Matan.

In Plain Sight is the result of months of exploring urban movements on a boulevard in Tehran, Iran. In a society where many questions and restrictions exist around the concept of “movement”, three performers interact with their surroundings and thus become an integral part of the flow of the city. They accompany each other to find the power of collective movement. The journey is the destination.

Lift Off is a caption of play and joy of five merging female aerial dancers doing what they love: dancing in the air. Despite of their aging bodies they have released themselves from what they are expected to be able to do with their minds and bodies. It is a revolution on movement!

This short screendance work takes its title In Silence is the Offering Presented from a quote attributed to Chinese philosopher Confucius, which is instructive of peace over violence. Looking across the body of water, memories of homeland and feelings of displacement merge as the two main characters, mother and son, find themselves as refugees. Home, hope, dreams, safety, security, and love can be found in the silence. With choreography and direction by Li Chiao-Ping, cinematography, editing, and sound design by Christal Wagner, music by Byron Au Yong, and performance by Li Chiao-Ping and Jacob Li Dai-Loong Rosenberg, the evocative images in “in silence is the offering presented” reflect their experimental and collaborative approach to this expressive work.

She climbs the mountain to forget but finds that her body cannot help but remember. This film is a frank depiction of loss and the desire to heal completely. She resorts to ritual rumination in the form of physical activity and expectant gazing toward the expansive skyline. Time knows better.

Language and body language are the intricate threads that weave our identities. They unravel our stories, revealing the depths of our past and the essence of our being. The Way We… delves into this tapestry, unraveling not only our individual identities but also the legacies we carry forward. Through language, both spoken and unspoken, we inherit cultural nuances, values, and emotions. It’s not just communication; it’s a transmission of heritage and connection. Each word uttered, each gesture made, forms bridges between souls, carrying the weight of our experiences and the warmth of our shared humanity.

As our lives get mutated by different lands and cityscapes, what stays persistent? How do body memories get recycled / shared and where does the body-as-archive is practised to become a refuge to root ourselves during a migratory experience? The last film of the MDFP series draws from the corporeal memories of 10 dancers-singers who are engaged in a “movement through journeying process” of converging individual practices in a nomadic and rhythmic chorus of togetherness and home seeking/finding.