Narrative Shorts: Stories in Motion

In a collection of five narrative screendance shorts, artists tell universal stories through the intimately personal language of movement.

From moving odes to loneliness to a darkly comic romance, a touching story of family bonds, and an action-packed game of survival, these films span an dizzying range of expressive tones. What they hold in common is the undeniable power of dance to forge connections between individuals that go on to shape our worlds.

Venue accessibility: The entrance to the screening room is at 600 The Embarcadero. Once you enter the gates, there is an office to your left with a front desk. The person at the front desk will escort you to the elevator to get to the screening room.

Program Info

Runtime: 73 minutes

Wednesday, October 16 @ 6:30PM

Venue: Delancey Street Theater

$15 GA / $40 Arts Patron

This program contains mature content and is not suitable for children.

Program Films

A woman's face pokes out from behind a man's face as she stands with her back against his bare chest. She looks directly at the camera, while he looks down, eyebrows furrowed. Image is slightly out of focus.

From the creative minds and bodies of Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, “Life Hacks for Lovers” is a darkly comic fantasy about love and creation.

Marc Grey

Bobbi Jene Smith, Or Schraiber

(Israel, 2023) 14:39 minutes

Life Hacks for Lovers

A girl with slicked back hair held by a clip looks down to her side, a bright stage light on her face. She wears a pink collar with rhinestones and pearls, and has white flowers cascading down the side of her face.

In “Dancer,” a Deaf teenage girl decides to follow her dreams and audition for a dance company, despite her father’s protest.

Nomin Gantulga

Ganchimeg Lkhamjav

(Mongolia, 2023) 12:35 minutes

Dancer

Two young men sit at outside a chess table, reaching across the board towards one another, as if for each other's pieces. They are holding deep, inquisitive eye contact.

Through a series of imagined encounters, “Incomplete” tells the story of a man longing for someone he has never met.

Sasha Korbut

Adam Barruch

(United States, 2023) 15:55 minutes

Incomplete

A woman with short brown hair is in a tango hold with a gray haired man with a beard. He wears a forest green suit jacket as they dance beneath a crystal chandelier.

Stakes run high in “TWO TO TANGO,” as twelve world leaders assemble to play a power game from which only one will come out alive.

Dimitri Sterkens

Anibal Lautaro

(Belgium, 2022) 18:26 minutes

TWO TO TANGO

A man stands in a city street with his hands to his sides in front of a car that has one door open. He looks at something off-camera, and his face shows a look of dismay.

“Strays” tells the story of a Pakistani immigrant living alone in Coney Island and the many small encounters that shape his life.

Or Schraiber

(United States, 2024) 12:47 minutes

Strays

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