A Soft Place to Fall

Everything

Rules of the Road

Wreck Beach Butoh

The Things We Do

Blue

L’education Physique

Gleaning

(Montreal 5 minutes 2006)
Directed by Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer
Choreographed by Thea Patterson
Performed by Peter Trostzmer and Catherine Lipscombe

A film that investigates a couple’s shifting relationship. This dance tells the passionate story of a man and a woman and the humour and peril of becoming vulnerable to each other as the two move through states of obsessiveness and determination. Millar and Szporer previously made The Hunt, shown at Moving Pictures in 2005.

(Toronto 8 minutes 2006)
Directed by Michael Caines. Choreographed and performed by Janette Platana
A woman engaged in peculiar household chores rants about god, fame, murder and hair stylists.

Michael Caines is a Toronto based artist working in drawing, painting, film, video and sculptural installation. His paintings have been exhibited in public and private galleries in Canada and the USA. His films and videos have been screened worldwide. Caines is represented in Toronto by Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects.

(Montreal 8 minutes 2005)
Directed by Deborah Van Slet.
Choreographed and performed by Jenn Goodwin and Sarah Doucet
A dance video on hitchhiking: a metaphor for the calculated risk. The video expresses both the exhilaration and the anxiety associated with taking a chance and breaking out for parts unknown.

Deborah VanSlet is a Montreal video artist/documentarian whose work is rooted in the tradition of storytelling. She is primarily interested in the social relevance of art and has been strongly influenced by her years of travel and her role as a mother.

(Vancouver 24 minutes 2006)
Directed by Pascal Provost.
Between the impenetrable blackness of the endowment lands rainforest and the primordial Pacific Ocean lies Wreck Beach Butoh, Pascal Provost's transcendent art film of an annual community collaboration of Butoh by Vancouver's Kokoro Dance.

Pascal Provost’s artistic mandate is to create art movies that alter perceptions of dance. Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget founded KOKORO Dance in 1986. They met in 1979 when both were dancing with the Paula Ross Dance Company. In 1982, Barbara and Jay joined with Peter Bingham, Ahmed Hassan, Lola MacLaughlin, Jennifer Mascall, and Peter Ryan to form EDAM (Experimental Dance and Music), a volatile collective of strong personalities that began with some very altruistic intentions, produced some highly original work, and eventually disintegrated into a number of separate companies EDAM, Kokoro Dance, Lola Dance, and Mascall Dance.

(Toronto 6 minutes 2006)
Directed by Beau Dickson and Tina Fushell. Choreographed by Tina Fushell.
Performed by Andrya Duff and Sarah Johnson

A study into the rituals and daily routines of two women. Our focus is upon their actions, mannerisms, and the execution of movement embracing precision, clarity and restraint. Their exteriors are seemingly perfect to a level on par with mechanization. However, they too yearn to express their raw, uncensored emotions. It is through their excess or lack of movement that speaks to us. At times chaotic and frenetic, we sense a passion attacking their inner surface, representing their desire to escape the confines placed on them. Contrasting their passion, we are hypnotized by their calm languid movements, and rigid blank facades, expressing a confidence and unwavering sense of awareness. In the end the women step down revealing their true height, grounding them to those engaged in watching, and showing that no one should be put on a pedestal.

(Toronto 3 minutes 2006)
Directed, choreographed and performed by Elif Isikozlu

There is a moment when you have neither left the place you’re in nor entered the one you’re going to. It is the moment just before you play your first note, just before you walk out on stage, just before you tell someone you don’t love them anymore. Balanced on the brink, “betwixt and between”, BLUE takes place within this moment, within the threshold between silence and sound.

(Montreal 17 minutes 2006) Directed by Frederic Moffat and Manon Oligny

What does the expression to fulfill oneself or to surpass oneself truly mean today? We are blinded by an exaggerated preoccupation with ourselves and an overdevelopment of the "I" and we are centered on an obsessional theme: to achieve success. Never give up, never lose, these are the leitmotiv of a society that teaches us to be in shape, to be on top.

Manon Oligny introduces a choreographic and photographic conference embodied by Anne Le Beau, Mathilde Monnard, David Pressault and Fabrice Boutique, who are dancers aspiring to the ultimate liberation of their body. She approaches this theme using her unique and critical vision of dancing and its associated codes. With sensitivity and sensuality, L'Éducation physique offers a poetical reflection on frenetic training, where the body is shown as an elusive territory that must be mastered.

Frédéric Moffet was born in Montreal in 1971. He graduated from Concordia University (Montreal) with a BFA in filmmaking. He left Montreal in May 2000 for Chicago where he teaches video (The School of The Art Institute of Chicago). Neither fiction nor documentary, Frédéric Moffet's video work explores the body's loss of control as it is torn between desire and ethics. His work has been shown in film festivals and galleries in London, New York, Hong Kong, Berlin, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Montréal.

A Soft Place to Fall

(Montreal 5 minutes 2006)
Directed by Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer
Choreographed by Thea Patterson
Performed by Peter Trostzmer and Catherine Lipscombe

A film that investigates a couple’s shifting relationship. This dance tells the passionate story of a man and a woman and the humour and peril of becoming vulnerable to each other as the two move through states of obsessiveness and determination. Millar and Szporer previously made The Hunt, shown at Moving Pictures in 2005.

Everything

(Toronto 8 minutes 2006)
Directed by Michael Caines. Choreographed and performed by Janette Platana
A woman engaged in peculiar household chores rants about god, fame, murder and hair stylists.

Michael Caines is a Toronto based artist working in drawing, painting, film, video and sculptural installation. His paintings have been exhibited in public and private galleries in Canada and the USA. His films and videos have been screened worldwide. Caines is represented in Toronto by Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects.

Rules of the Road

(Montreal 8 minutes 2005)
Directed by Deborah Van Slet.
Choreographed and performed by Jenn Goodwin and Sarah Doucet
A dance video on hitchhiking: a metaphor for the calculated risk. The video expresses both the exhilaration and the anxiety associated with taking a chance and breaking out for parts unknown.

Deborah VanSlet is a Montreal video artist/documentarian whose work is rooted in the tradition of storytelling. She is primarily interested in the social relevance of art and has been strongly influenced by her years of travel and her role as a mother.

Wreck Beach Butoh

(Vancouver 24 minutes 2006)
Directed by Pascal Provost.
Between the impenetrable blackness of the endowment lands rainforest and the primordial Pacific Ocean lies Wreck Beach Butoh, Pascal Provost's transcendent art film of an annual community collaboration of Butoh by Vancouver's Kokoro Dance.

Pascal Provost’s artistic mandate is to create art movies that alter perceptions of dance. Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget founded KOKORO Dance in 1986. They met in 1979 when both were dancing with the Paula Ross Dance Company. In 1982, Barbara and Jay joined with Peter Bingham, Ahmed Hassan, Lola MacLaughlin, Jennifer Mascall, and Peter Ryan to form EDAM (Experimental Dance and Music), a volatile collective of strong personalities that began with some very altruistic intentions, produced some highly original work, and eventually disintegrated into a number of separate companies EDAM, Kokoro Dance, Lola Dance, and Mascall Dance.

The Things We Do

(Toronto 6 minutes 2006)
Directed by Beau Dickson and Tina Fushell. Choreographed by Tina Fushell.
Performed by Andrya Duff and Sarah Johnson

A study into the rituals and daily routines of two women. Our focus is upon their actions, mannerisms, and the execution of movement embracing precision, clarity and restraint. Their exteriors are seemingly perfect to a level on par with mechanization. However, they too yearn to express their raw, uncensored emotions. It is through their excess or lack of movement that speaks to us. At times chaotic and frenetic, we sense a passion attacking their inner surface, representing their desire to escape the confines placed on them. Contrasting their passion, we are hypnotized by their calm languid movements, and rigid blank facades, expressing a confidence and unwavering sense of awareness. In the end the women step down revealing their true height, grounding them to those engaged in watching, and showing that no one should be put on a pedestal.

Blue

(Toronto 3 minutes 2006)
Directed, choreographed and performed by Elif Isikozlu

There is a moment when you have neither left the place you’re in nor entered the one you’re going to. It is the moment just before you play your first note, just before you walk out on stage, just before you tell someone you don’t love them anymore. Balanced on the brink, “betwixt and between”, BLUE takes place within this moment, within the threshold between silence and sound.

L’education Physique

(Montreal 17 minutes 2006) Directed by Frederic Moffat and Manon Oligny

What does the expression to fulfill oneself or to surpass oneself truly mean today? We are blinded by an exaggerated preoccupation with ourselves and an overdevelopment of the "I" and we are centered on an obsessional theme: to achieve success. Never give up, never lose, these are the leitmotiv of a society that teaches us to be in shape, to be on top.

Manon Oligny introduces a choreographic and photographic conference embodied by Anne Le Beau, Mathilde Monnard, David Pressault and Fabrice Boutique, who are dancers aspiring to the ultimate liberation of their body. She approaches this theme using her unique and critical vision of dancing and its associated codes. With sensitivity and sensuality, L'Éducation physique offers a poetical reflection on frenetic training, where the body is shown as an elusive territory that must be mastered.

Frédéric Moffet was born in Montreal in 1971. He graduated from Concordia University (Montreal) with a BFA in filmmaking. He left Montreal in May 2000 for Chicago where he teaches video (The School of The Art Institute of Chicago). Neither fiction nor documentary, Frédéric Moffet's video work explores the body's loss of control as it is torn between desire and ethics. His work has been shown in film festivals and galleries in London, New York, Hong Kong, Berlin, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Montréal.

Gleaning

(Toronto 5 minutes 2006)
Directed by John Lauener. Choreographed and performed by Barbara Pallomina
Music by Apostle of Hustle

Shot on b&w super 8, Gleaning is a lyrical study of rhythm and motion. Choreographically it is inspired by the flight of crows at dusk.

Vancouver born, Toronto based, John Lauener has been photographing dance for over twenty years. Recently he has begun creating work in film and video. John’s first dance film Paint premiered at the 2005 Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and was screened across Canada as part of Reel Dance on the Road. John’s photography for fashion, theatre and dance has appeared extensively in publications throughout Canada as well the U.S., Europe and Japan. A selection of John’s images can be viewed on line at www.jlphoto.ca

Born and raised in Toronto, Barbara Pallomina began her dance training at George Brown College and continued at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, graduating in 1995. As an interpreter she has worked many independent choreographers and companies. Barbara has also appeared in a dance films by Magali Charrier, Michael Downing, John Lauener and John Oswald.

Still from Blue by Elif Isikozlu.

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(Toronto 5 minutes 2006)
Directed by John Lauener. Choreographed and performed by Barbara Pallomina
Music by Apostle of Hustle

Shot on b&w super 8, Gleaning is a lyrical study of rhythm and motion. Choreographically it is inspired by the flight of crows at dusk.

Vancouver born, Toronto based, John Lauener has been photographing dance for over twenty years. Recently he has begun creating work in film and video. John’s first dance film Paint premiered at the 2005 Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and was screened across Canada as part of Reel Dance on the Road. John’s photography for fashion, theatre and dance has appeared extensively in publications throughout Canada as well the U.S., Europe and Japan. A selection of John’s images can be viewed on line at www.jlphoto.ca

Born and raised in Toronto, Barbara Pallomina began her dance training at George Brown College and continued at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, graduating in 1995. As an interpreter she has worked many independent choreographers and companies. Barbara has also appeared in a dance films by Magali Charrier, Michael Downing, John Lauener and John Oswald.