LADF 2022

"The Decameron Project" is Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron,  a collection of stories told by a group of 10 strangers sheltering in  an abandoned villa to escape the bubonic plague.  RGWW proposes creating  a series of 10 short video projects made to amuse, astonish, and  entertain, with each made by a different artists

"Gamut"

by Choreographer: Bret Easterling

"Northern Latitude 22 Degree"

by Choreographer: Jinglin Liao

Company website : www.rgww.org

Instagram: rgww_dance

" Proclamation "

 Choreographer: Sam McReynolds in collaboration with Shauna Davis

“Proclamation”  is a celebration of change, perseverance, and unity. However, it calls  to question if what we are doing is ever enough. We cannot become  complacent. The fight for justice continues.

Instagram: @sammypmc

"ides of march "

Choreographer Deborah Brockus with Dancers Raymond Ejifor and Julienne Mackey.

This is the first of a full evening work looking at the emotions and events of 2020-2021. 

This section is the shock of March 2020 and the anguish of being separated- you could see but not touch your loved ones.  

The  realization of a pandemic hitting your life and the hurt of separation from  touch just when we need it most, the helpless feeling of loosing  someone.

Company website : www.BrockusRED.org

Facebook : Brockus-RED

Instagram: brockusreddanceco

"BALANCE ON THAT"

Choreographer: Matt Reiner, Nannette Brodi

This film is light-hearted and meant to illustrate how we  struggle to be in balance during these tumultuous times.  It mixes  contemporary, hip hop and parcour movement together.

Company website:    https://www.nannettebrodiedance.org

Facebook : (20+) Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre | Facebook 

Instagram:  Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre (@nannettebrodiedancetheatre)

"Bir Varmış / Bir Yokmuş"

Choreographer:  Seda Aybay

“Once Upon a Time” , a universal saying in many cultures, takes on a  nuanced variation in Turkey as “once there was, once there was not.”  Aybay reflects upon the moment dividing existence from oblivion. She  explores what it means to be one of the ones left behind who must  acutely process a reality of ‘once there was not’. This dance film takes  us on a journey through feelings of the lost, lonely, confused, angry,  sad, comforted and loved where memories live “once upon a time.”

Company website :       kybeledance.com 

Facebook :      @kybele.dance Instagram:      @kybeledance 

"Fulcrum"

 Choreographer: Charlotte Katherine Smith

Company website:

 www.charlottekatherinedances.com

Facebook : @charlottekatherineandco

Instagram: @lalalotty

"ADAMA"

Director and Choreographer
Mario Bermudez Gil
ADAMA (which in Hebrew means Earth) is a telluric dance that emerges from the depths of earth and convoluted roots. A piece that references wild nature. Of trees separated on the surface that confuse their roots underground, that embrace below in an embedded network that connects them. Choreographer Mario Bermúdez Gil found inspiration for ADAMA from the natural landscape of his home town in Vilches, Jaen, Spain.  Pablo Polo's music, created exclusively for Adama, uses the sound of a language without origin. An evocative dance of nature and its free will is built to the rhythm of these voices and sets these three bodies free; nevertheless, trapped on an insignificant planet in the face of the greatness of its solar system. The choreography seems to always follow the rules of nature - it is circular, it begins where it ends and begins again. It is at a time cycle, continuity and eternity, that comes through sensual, earthly, evocative movement and music.


Company website: www.marcatdance.com
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/marcatdancecompany
Instagram: @marcat_dance 

Choreographer: Rafael  Quintas 

"The Traveler "

Every human has a moment in their life where they have to make a hard choice. Staying or going, stopping  or continuing...  

Exploring the space, architecture, movements and stories of a metro station a character moves through the crowd searching  for a sign of what decision to make. 

"Casa da Vovó (Grandma’s House) "

This  house has been in my life since before I was born. It’s where my mother  lived as a young adult,  where I later had my very first birthday party, where I went on  weekends for family lunch. So many beautiful memories. A house my  grandparents built with hard work and love. These were some of my  Grandma's favorite songs. Through this video I honor her and  my Grandfather. The house has been bought out and completely remodeled,  but the memories, the love will live forever in my heart.

Company website : youtube.com/rafaelq88 

Instagram: rafaelquintas88 

"RE-SIDE"    

   Choreographer : 

Demet AKSULAR / Ferhat GÜNEŞ    

theme of Borders / Immigration    

   '' All this blue has always been ours , so have our songs and poems.''    

   ''In order to see the blue , a family is forced to leave their home. Along    

   their path, the borders and limits that humanity have created will keep on    

   trapping them'

    Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ferhat.gunes.5011 

   Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/reel/CVAVl2PgVaG/?utm_medium=copy_link 

   company instagram link :    

https://www.instagram.com/p/CF9vtMjA_m3/?utm_medium=copy_link 

"Transient II"

Name of Choreographer:

Johnny Jan-Pong Tu

Its an exploration of being transitory and off balanced,; physically, metally, and

figuratively. The title alludes to the word transient as a noun to mean a vagrant, a

homeless person..

Facebook : 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/WJVwk4o1aGe7Nrky7

"the  piece i'm presenting is a solo, and is about our human/artistic Shadow  side as a powerful resource of survival and creativity. whereas  in artistic action (stage) or in life (backstage), you find yourself in  a struggle of Self and Other, Self and Shadow, searching for truth and  beauty. where  is the silence in music, where is the stillness in movement, apathy in  the action, ugliness in beauty and beauty in ugliness, a choice to non  perform when you are expected to manifest, a strive to perform when you  are cut off, fear and courage, an authenticity behind the facade? is  truthful? is it beautiful? what is the Beautiful?
the  movement style i use is a language i have developed over years of my  dance practice and research, that is based on numerous non-commercial,  vernacular, underground and club styles, with a technique that is a mix  of body isolations, footwork, and contemporary dance movement research  approaches. my pieces are created to contemporary improvisation music  (that could sometimes be named as "jazz"), and are "improvographies",  which is a combination of choreography and improvisation spots, left to  be danced in the moment of spontaneous creation."
Company website : https://alinasokulska.com
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/alinasoku
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alina_sokulska/

"Odyssey "
Choreography: Tomasz Ciesielski in collaboration with dancers
The presentation of works by Tomasz Ciesielski is supported by Adam Mickiewicz Institute
"FAR"
"Far"  movie is a picture of a several people facing loneliness, being cut off  from the world by someone's decisions, their own mistakes or the  compulsion of a pandemic. The experience is different for everyone, but  all are united by a painful lack of closeness to another human being.  The original inspiration for the film was the historical contexts  linking Łódź and Los Angeles, including the life of Arthur Rubinstein.  The pianist who escaped from his beloved homeland, entering the world of  the Polish diaspora in the USA. Ultimately, the creative process itself  became the theme of the film by showing the working conditions at a  distance in which we are forced to operate during the pandemic. The  film is a testimony to a longing for normality.  Students  and graduates of the dance faculties of the Academy of Music and the  Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź created a dance film  together with students and graduates of the The Sharon Disney Lund  School of Dance at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. They  met online at virtual workshops and creative residences.
"ODYSSEY"
Newer Theatre, Tomasz Ciesielski performance&research
The world seems to be wide open. Yet less and less often we set out on a journey, which is not only an adventure, but also a path of inner transformation. We can fly to the end of the world or even get a tour on Mount Everest, but that doesn't mean we are crossing any personal boundaries. We only experience the illusion of a rite of passage, which we gladly reinforce with epic coverage on social media. The COVID-19 pandemic only showed that the essence of the journey is not the road traveled. Thus, we invite audience to the place where the journey begins or ends. At the railway or metro station between train arrivals and departures – we experience the journey together at its various moments: just before the journey, in the moment of doubt and in the process of maturing to the first step – ritual death to a new life. The Odyssey project is not only a reference to the theme of Odysseus' journey from Homer. It is also an artistic path from mythological chaos to Kubrick's poetry of the cosmos. A look into a world that has "gone out of shape", arousing in Hamlet the need to repair it.
Supported byMusic and Dance & University of Łódź.
FULL VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/QvfzObzfBZw
This presentation by Teatr Nowszy of Daleko/Far and Odyssey is powered by Culture.pl
Dalaeko/Far was made in collaboration with Cal Arts. "

Hervé KOUBI

"Odyssey"

Hervé Koubi creates here a “white ballet”. Koubi’s ODYSSEY moves away from Homer’s story but keeps the sea as its basis, and the woman as a heroic figure. This new danced epic features Natacha Atlas, diva of Arabic music, who gives her bewitching voice to this tribute to femininity. On the stage, Koubi brings  together 14 dancers, male and female, with rich and varied  Mediterranean backgrounds. They give life to a great choreographic wave,  intense and sensual, which downplays the heroic battles described by  Homer to explore the cultural links, migrations, and turmoil of a sea  that connects and carries lives. The stage is an Aladdin’s carpet,  between ocean and sky, in the pristine vapors of a disappearing world.  The energy of hip-hop is in dialogue with elements of contemporary  dance, shaping a powerfully modern narrative. The time to love, the  space for a rare and precious journey!

herve.koubi@orange.fr

"By special permission from Hervé Koubi, Natacha Atlas, the dancers and the musicians" .

"人 in 人2 - Querencia"

Choreographer: Jaehyuk Choi

The  cow, exhausted from fighting with the matador, goes to the place he has  chosen to catch his breath and gather his strength. It is to regain his  energy and continue fighting. In there, the cow is no longer afraid. A  place known only by cattle is called Querencia in Spanish. It means  refuge, shelter.

There  will be times when we too will face ourselves wounded and exhausted  like a bull fighting a matador in this life that is not-so-smooth.

Then where is my Querencia?

Where can I be the most myself and completely myself?

"Weight of Tears"

Choreographer: Junghoon Kim

In modern society, humans seek unbearable greed and endless perfection.

In it we exist and live.

What is the weight of each individual's life left behind?

It looks the same, but the difference in tears with a different meaning?

Or the difference between emotion and temperature?

On the way we live and the way we think about the world, the breath of weight is also different.

The meaning of the tears flowing in that life will be different for each person, and life is made up of small things.

The weight of tears..

"Try Angle"

Choreographer: Jungmi Han

 In this era in which our daily life has changed in general, we  are living in isolation in each of our own corners. Changes in the  physical environment make you look at the world from a variety of angles  that you have never experienced before, and struggle within the  boundaries to readjust the sense of distance in your relationship. The  work ‘Try Angle’ attempts to convey the emotions of an object that are  inevitably driven into corners to the audience in a fluid spectrum  according to various perspectives. It will be a time of experimental  consideration on the angle between us, which has become slightly wider  or narrower.

"NATRUAL"

Choreographer: Eunkyung Seong

The gaze of  others are washed away by the falling raindrops and blurred, and I see  myself swaying with the wind blowing in it. It looks so natural that I  didn't force myself to decorate it. It's not easy to show myself openly  in front of other people. We live by hiding ourselves in line with  people's gaze. Like the misspelled NATRUAL, our figure is somewhat  unnatural. But as we understand what that means, they will just see me  as I am.

"Feibai'

Choreographer: PENG Juefei

'Feibai(飛白)' is 'a coincidence in inevitability(必然中的偶然)'  taken from a kind of special writing style phenomenon in calligraphy.  It is rich in natural conviviality, has no pretense, and shows vitality  between 'true(實)' and 'false(虛)'.  It embodies 'the nature in Dao principle' and the beauty of 'harmony'  of 'opposition and symbiosis' of Eastern ancient philosophy. As  mentioned before, this work develops around philosophy and aesthetics,  taking the form of the spirit of the Tao(道), the life of qi(氣), and Mu(Dance(舞), nothingness(無), and tries to explore a middle ground between black and white, false and truth.

"White Sound"

Choreographer: Yeonsoo Seo

Oriental blank, invisible history 'White'.

And the people’s shouting in there ‘Sound’.

White  Sound is a series of ‘Black’ series, and is a work to express the  invisible history and the shouts of the people through Korean sounds and  objects