Cinedans also presents exceptional documentaries that provide insights into the working methods of choreographers and dancers, or highlight a special project or dance movement.
In the New Dutch Shorts, you can watch a wide selection of home-grown dance films.
Festival
Cinedans 2022
165 films from 79 countries!
22 — 26 June 2022
still from Mother Melancholia (Samantha Shay)
Cinedans presents an interdisciplinary program where the two movement arts, dance and film, are pre-eminently linked. Connection, innovation and polyphony are central to this 18th International Edition.
In five full days, Cinedans presents the state of the art of international dance film in partnership with dancescreen - IMZ International Music + Media Center Vienna.
still from Habitat (David Jakob)
still from Anon (Suzana Phialas)
The Programme
The Cinedans program includes a strong, diverse and exciting selection of films, that run in the International Dance Film Competition and the Performance Relay & Camera Rework Competition, hosted in partnership with dancescreen - IMZ International Music + Media Center.
Specials
This year’s program includes five specials programs concerning various topics, including: New influences & young makers in classical ballet in Ballet Unleashed; Reflection on diversity in dance and society in Black Dance Matters; Striking dance films in which Western and Asian influences merge in Focus: Taiwan; Late night program with exciting films on the relation of sex and dance in XXXplicit Dance.
still from Crow (Robin Boissevain)
Besides this all, don’t miss out on the Performances, Installations, VR, Lectures, Workshops, Pitches, Q&A’s and Free Screenings!
Image on poster: Vivaldis (Philippe Decouflé)
Festival programme
Cinedans FEST ’22 will take place from June 22-26 in Eye and A Lab.
You can buy a ticket per film, or buy a passe-partout for the whole festival.
Cinedans FEST '22 is a hybrid festival. You can watch dance films worldwide on www.cinedans.nl.
The online festival program will be available from 24 June – 1 July.
VR Focus
For the third time in a row Cinedans organizes the Cinedans VRLab. In the Playground of A Lab, directly opposite Eye, three international makers experiment with dance, movement and body in a virtual environment. On June 25 and 26 the Lab will hold an open house during Cinedans FEST to test and view the experiments. The doors will be open for the Cinedans audience.
Besides that, Cinedans and ImproVive - VR development studio in Amersfoort - are organising a workshop for dance and film makers, visual artists and designers. In the Kaleidoscope of A Lab, Improvive will set up a technological playground where you can examine and play with VR for an hour.
For more information check the programme.
Planning on having a drink or a bite to eat? Book online for Eye Bar Restaurant.