
New Dutch 4
Cinedans Festival 2022
The Dutch Dance film is growing in popularity with creators from various disciplines. Cinedans FEST presents a selection of the best new Dutch dance films. Each screening will be concluded with a short Q&A with the makers and audience.

The research project: The Leftovers
Director: Antonin Rioche
Choreography: Antonin Rioche
Year completed: 2021
Country of production: The Netherlands
Duration: 13:00
The Leftovers is a poetic post-apocalyptic work about two performers that are captured in separate rooms. They can observe each other, but cannot hear nor speak with each other. An invisible character seems to control them, read their minds, and experiment with them. With this film Antonin Rioche wants to investigate the subject of artificial intelligence in relation to human feeling.
RY X - Your Love
Director: RY X
Choreography: Marne van Opstal & Imre van Opstal
Year completed: 2021
Country of production: The Netherlands
Duration: 4:57
Shot on a starkly beautiful Icelandic landscape, this music video by RY X pictures dancers and choreographers Imre and Marne van Opstal as two lovers intently exploring the grace and tumult of their relationship.
Alma
Director: Marinus Groothof
Choreography: Andrés Marin, Kalin Morrow
Initiative, Production and Design of mask and soul: Siba Sahabi.
Year completed: 2022
Country of production: The Netherlands
Duration: 13:46
A man is facing the end of his life. With the awareness that his days are numbered, he desperately tries to prevent his body and soul from separating. He discovers a human-like creature who experiences an opposite dynamic of existence.
Presentation in collaboration with Julidans Festival.
Bboys X Ballet Variation
Director: Joseph Simon
Choreography: Joseph Simon
Year completed: 2021
Country of production: The Netherlands
Duration: 13:30
Three respected Bboys dive into the choreographic universe of Joseph Simon and work out their own interpretation of Act III Variation Basil from the Don Quixote Ballet, while engaging in a process of comparing classical ballet and breaking.
KATANA
Director: Maarten Groen
Choreography: Cheroney Pelupessy
Year completed: 2022
Country of production: The Netherlands
Duration: 4:28
Katana honors the strength of womanhood through a blend of explosive movements, martial arts, and sensuality. Inspired by Asian culture and shot on 16mm.
La Nostra Terra
Director: Thomas Born
Choreography: Dalton Jansen
Year completed: 2022
Country of production: Italy, The Netherlands
Duration: 17:12
A dance tragedy on Sicilian soil about a search for common ground. Inspired by Studio Wild’s installation 'The Forbidden Garden of Europe', that hosts a garden of 'invasive alien species' that pose a threat to native European plants and are illegal to grow, trade and transport throughout the EU.
SOULSCAPE
Director: Yuri Bongers, Jeanette Groenendaal
Choreography: Jeanette Groenendaal, Yuri Bongers
Year completed: 2022
Country of production: The Netherlands
Duration: 6:47
Dancer/ choreographer Yuri Bongers (1974-2021) received a research grant for the development of a choreography with camera, dancers and the landscape as protagonist, when he discovered this would be his last project. With filmmaker Jeanette Groenendaal, he decided to escape a few days every season in 2021.
Details
Production year
2022
Length
93 min.
Country
NL
Part of
Cinedans 2022
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.



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