DANCE + CITY

EE/LT/LV/FR/UA | 2024 | 9 x 3' / 30’11’’ | HD | non spoken except Estonian in the episode YES! | By Lina Lužytė, Greta Grinevičiūtė, Valerijs Olehno, Rūta Ronja Pakalne, Vadym Ilkov, Kateryna Gornostai, Madli Lääne, Marta Pulk, Laure Delamotte-Legrand (One director per episode) | Just a moment (LT), Air Productions (LV), Stellar Film (EE), Tag Film (FR), Moon Man (UA)  | Broadcasters: ARTE, LRT

 

Nine short films blend contemporary dance with architecture across five countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, France, and Ukraine. Each film offers a unique exploration of how the physical structures around us—often overlooked in our daily lives—interact with the fluidity of the human body, inviting viewers to rediscover the architecture of different eras and regions.

 

Choreographers: Kaisa Kattai, Artūrs Nīgalis, Loreta Juodkaitė, Dovydas Strimaitis, Raido Mägi, Mariia Yakobchuk, Darius Algis Stankevičius, Ruta Ronja Pakalne, Anastasia Kharchenko, Yaroslav Kaynar.

 

EPISODE x DURATION:

EP1 3’39’’ Circus of Love and Lament

EP2 3’29’’ YES!

EP3 3’33’’ Drama King

EP4 3’08’’ In Between

EP5 3’28’’ H61

EP6 3’53’’ SOLO

EP7 3’33’’ Sea Fragment

EP8 3’33’’ Gravitas

EP9 3’39’’ We Will Be After Us

LE CORPS DE LA VILLE EN MARTINIQUE

FR | 2021 | 52' | HD non spoken (French credits) | By Nicolas Habas | JPL Productions & WIPS | Broadcaster: France Télévisions.

 

The ten greatest dancers from Martinique tell the story of their identity and the history that binds them intimately to their island of Martinique through their dances in the most iconic natural landscapes and architectural heritage of this Caribbean island, deeply marked by the history of French colonialism. This dance film shows the great creative vitality of the Creole people.

 

Choreographer: Jean-Hughes Miredin

Dancers: Josiane Antourel, Renaud Bonard, Fabrice "Flexx" Vaillant, Marlène Myrtil, Jean-félix Zaïre, Pascal Seraline, Jean-Hugues Miredin, Laurent Troudart, Annabel Gueredrat, Émilie Alves De Puga, Lindy Callegeri, les Zion BBoys.

Composer: Yohann Landry

LE CORPS DE LA VILLE A NOUMEA

FR | 2019 | 52' | HD non spoken (French credits) | By Nicolas Habas | JPL Productions - AvCom | Ministère de la Culture, France | Broadcaster: France Télévisions NC la 1ère

 

Ten New Caledonian choreographers and dancers dance in ten emblematic locations of the island of New Caledonia, both natural landscapes and architectural heritage, and put them in dialogue with their bodies. A true cross-pollination of dance and cinema, Le corps de la ville à Nouméa proposes to discover the vitality of dance in New Caledonia, in its original context of emergence. It allows us to appreciate its capacity to tell the story of a territory in its diversity, thanks to the camera.

 

Choreographers-dancers:

Clancy Tenene – chorégraphe

Elsa Gilquin

Julien Leboulanger

Linda Kurtovitch

Richard Digoué

Simane Wenethem

Soufiane Karim

Troupe Le Wetr

Yoan Ouchot

Les jeunes du Rex

Music composed and played by: Yohann Landry

WATER... ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN

FR | 2016 | 68’ | HD | French | By Philippe Lainé & Robyn Orlin | Axe Sud Coproducers: France Télévisions, NC 1 ère, Culturebox, SRTV(Vanuatu) | Broadcaster: France Télévisions

 

In the heavenly archipelago of Vanuatu, the South African dancer-choreographer Robyn Orlin captures the Gaua women's unique art of making water sing and let them perform a fascinating hymn to nature, making us aware of the climate change endangering the existence of the archipelago. A singular film-ballet, in which the landscapes, accessories and characters compose a colorful choreographed film.

This programme is presented by Greg Germain in theMultiscénik show.

TACTUM

PL | 2015 | 28’ | HD | Polish, English (sub.) | By Krzysztof Stasiak | BMC Films

 

Meaning “tango” in Latin, Tactum mixes contemporary dance, tango and classical ballet. Highlighting the “sensation of a body”, the idea of touch is exploited through the perspectives of masculinity and femininity in a celebration of the four elements: earth, water, air and fire. The Polish choreographers, Ester Duarte, Chiche Nunez and Witold Jurewicz open new doors to dance programming.

IN THREE ACTS

PR | 2015 | 76’ | HD | Portuguese, English (sub.), Spanish (sub.), French (sub.) | By Lucia Murat | Taiga Films | Broadcaster: Telecine

 

This hybrid dance film with acting and contemporary dance let us revive the mother's death of a woman. After a first act recalling the intensive relationship between the mother and the daughter, the second act sees the death arriving, while they both have to face the mother's death in the last act. The daughter's monologues on her questioning towards death, vibrantly quoting Simone de Beauvoir, let us experience this film as a true fiction.