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The Carriageworks: Film Forum 1
9th November • 7pm

Leeds has an international reputation for dance. It is home for the talents of the Phoenix Dance Theatre and Northern Ballet Theatre companies. In 2007 a new event in the city will showcase the best of world dance through moving image media. As a preview, the Jump programme features a dynamic selection of shorts charged by the fusion of the dance and film art forms.

Mendiolazza
Dir. Marilen Iglesias –Breuken, Argentina, 2005, 5 mins
Set in a car garage where people keep falling over.

O en cualqier otro lugar,
Dir. Miguel Grompone, Chor. Anrea Lamana, Uraguay, 2004, 10 mins
A dance that contrasts the city and the countryside.

You Cuba
Dir. Margaret Williams, Chor. Cathy Marston, Cuba/UK, 2005, 13 mins
Filmed in Havana 'You Cuba' is a celebration of dance in Cuba, inspired by colourful culture, vibrant people and outstanding landscape.

In Stone
Dir. Margaret Williams & Mal Pelo, Barcelona/UK, 2006, 6 mins
In Stone is new work by the internationally acclaimed artists Margaret Williams and Mal Pelo. Filmed on location in Barcelona.

The Smallest Things
Dir. Jamie Paul Quantrill, Chor. Sara Crow, UK, 2005, 9 mins
Inspired by American short story writer Raymond Carver's Why Don't You
Dance?, The piece brings together the talents of three striking artists.

Aqua Gym
Dir. Simon Green, Country, UK, 2004, 4 mins
An underwater ballet that inverts pictorial space turning a public swimming pool into a zero gravity environment.

Pedestrians
Dir. Sergio Cruz, Country, UK, Year, 2006, 5 mins
Pedestrians is a documental process about a subtle observation of an unintentional
'dance', drawing comparisons between dancer (performer) and pedestrian.

Text Field
Dir. Chirstinn Whyte & Jake Messenger, UK, 2002, 1 min
A continuous sequence of improvised movement is translated into an asci-based animation, with the soundtrack provided by a computer reading of the sequence's final frame.

Double Edge
Dir. Sue Smith, Country, UK, Year, 2005 3 mins
A rhythmic tangle of movement tumbles through contrasting outdoor landscapes with playful intimacy and draws on the tension between two men trying to find a balance.
Expanse

Expanse
Dir. Chirstinn Whyte & Jake Messenger, UK, 2006, 1 min
A single performers movement is transformed through the distortiong effect of exteme close up.

Hard Told
Dir. Jane Mason, UK, 2006, 8 mins
'Hard Told' is a journey of suffocating intimacy and isolation. Through the eyes of an elderly deaf man, a dance emerges. Bare feet...a muddy field...a distant tree...a woman. Taking pedestrian movement through barren landscapes, Jane Mason's film searches for boundaries of time and space, guided by her protagonist's deviating narrative

Excellent Beauty
Dir. The Honey Brothers, Chor. Tom Sapsford, UK, 2005, 4 mins
A solo female dancer moves through an architectural space. Her body is filmed from multiple viewpoints, to create a mesmerising pattern of shapes and intense colour.

Tremor
Dir. Ravi Deepres, Chor. Wayne McGregor, UK, 2005 4 mins
A lone dancer in an industrial world becomes physically charged by powerful raw frequency sound. The striking combination of choreography, sound and fast cutting style creates a visceral and apocalyptic impact.

Film
Dir. Shelly Love, UK, 2005, 6 mins
In a futuristic city, the camera enters a factory to find bizarre characters whose strange and playful activities celebrate the creative properties of polythene. In this magical, often humorous black and white world, director Shelly Love uses an everyday product to create surprising and beautiful imagery.

We would like to thank all the artists involved without their generosity we would not be able to put on the event.

www.videodanzaba.com.ar
www.shiftwork.org.uk
www.southeastdance.org.uk
www.mjwproductions.com

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