dance

DESH 3 min excerpt by Akram Khan Company

"DESH is a new full-length contemporary solo and the most personal work to date from celebrated choreographer and performer, Akram Khan. DESH meaning 'homeland' in Bengali, draws multiple tales of land, nation, resistance and convergence into the body and voice of one man trying to find his balance in an unstable world.

Moving between Britain and Bangladesh, Khan weaves threads of memory, experience and myth into a surreal world of surprising connection. At once intimate and epic, DESH explores fragility in the face of natural forces, and celebrates the resilience of the human spirit in the rhythms of labour, in dream and story, and in transformation and survival."

349 by Kristen Lauth Shaeffer

"Created with hundreds of pencils and hundreds of hands, "349" is a collaborative animated dance film that explores the idea that we're all imperceptibly connected.

To create "349," a dance performance was videotaped and converted into a series of still frames. Over the span of two years, 349 different people each redrew one of these frames after being asked to "draw yourself and someone with whom you have a significant connection." The resulting drawings were scanned, sequenced, and synced to music to create the short animated dance film."

Hype Cycle : Machine Learning - Trailer
by Universal Everything

"A trailer for Machine Learning, the second set of films in the Hype Cycle series. It builds on the studio’s past experiments with motion studies, and asks: when will machines achieve human agility?

universaleverything.com/projects/hype-cycle-machine-learning"

SPACES ALIVE #mecanica

by KOTKI visuals

Just Dance: Able - NOWNESS

Ill-Abilities Crew:
Luca "Lazyleg" Patuelli
Jacob "Kujo" Lyons
Redouan "Redo" Ait Chitt
Sergio David "Checho" Miranda Carvajal
Samuel Henrique "Samuka" Da Silveira Lima

Director: Jacob Jonas
Producer: Jill Wilson
Photographer: Jed Alan, Jacob Jonas
Music: Chad Lawson

“Aria” with lil Buck

Directed by Benjamin Millepied
Produced by Dimitri Chamblas
Music Laurent Millepied
2012/Los Angeles

at least for a while anyway
by Daniel Crooks

"A collaboration between Nat Cursio and Daniel Crooks, at least for a while anyway locates Don Asker, a treasure of Australian dance practice, amongst his ‘other’ life as a farmer. In this imaginatively rendered portrait, Asker’s body is prised open to celebrate the depth of corporeal knowledge encapsulated within one extraordinary human being. Figure and ground coalesce in a work which meditates upon continuity, place and the solubility of identity."

Don Asker - performer
Pete Brundle - sound designer
Genevieve Lacey - recorder player