Ballet unleashed

I Feel It Too

Director: Sedrig Verwoert

Choreography: Sedrig Verwoert

Year completed: 2021

Country of production: The Netherlands

Duration: 26:01

Director and choreographer Sedrig Verwoert created I Feel It Too as Young Creative Associate of The Dutch National Ballet. The social and cultural restrictions as a result of the global pandemic inspired Verwoert to create a dance piece exclusively for the screen, shedding a light on the complex emotions that we collectively had to face. The film encapsulates emotions ranging from a state of naiveté to a heavy understanding of the new normal. Rozina Salihuz, whose voice narrates the film and Tim Wes, who made the original music score, appear in the film as a critical note to the consumption of black culture.

Middleground

Choreography: Wisse Scheele

Year completed: 2021

Country of production: The Netherlands

Duration: 2:46

Wisse Scheele, student at the National Ballet Academy of the Amsterdam School of the Arts, filmed his dancers in 3D and built a world around them, in order to tell a story about friendship.

Switchback

Director: Cathy Marston, Lauren Finerman

Choreography: Cathy Marston

Year completed: 2021

Country of production: The Netherlands, Canada, United States

Duration: 12:49

Switchback film, one of the first commissioned projects of Ballet Unleashed, is a creation by internationally renowned choreographer Cathy Marston, co-directed and produced by Lauren Finerman, with young dancers from Boston, San Francisco, Toronto and Amsterdam. A coming of age story about young adults who leave their homes in order to chase their dreams.