Screendance I: Wild Spaces

Wild spaces come to vibrant life through movement in these five screendance works that showcase the natural beauty of our planet.

Abstract journeys take shape on ice floes, a dry lake bed, towering forests, and lush fields of grass under expansive, ever-shifting skies. Dancers shapeshift through these vast landscapes to explore human-animal relationships, the cycle of the seasons, climate change, and the looming threat of extinction.

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: 63 minutes

Friday, October 18 @ 1:30PM

Venue: Delancey Street Theater

$15 GA / $40 Arts Patron

Program Films

A group of people of various ages stand with one leg in front of the other, twisting their bodies towards the camera. They hold their hands over their hearts, elbows reaching out, and their mouths are open as they sing. They wear a mix of red, purple, green and denim clothing.
Ten dancer-singers journey through changing seasons and landscapes in “Refuge,” a hypnotic expression of togetherness and the idea of home.
Marlene Millar
Sandy Silva
(Canada, 2023) 13:51 minutes

Refuge

In the desert, a group of seven dancers stand upright and arch back, their faces up toward the sun. They wear an array of dull beige, green and blue jumpsuits and all wear fingerless gloves.
Set in the dusty expanse of a dry lake bed, “Where Once There Was Water” reflects on changing climates and landscapes to awaken ecological memory.
Mike Tyus
Mike Tyus, Luca Renzi
(United States, 2023) 11:09 minutes

Where Once There Was Water

Abstract paint pour, a woman's face, yellow blue and purple, serious expression.
In an abstract meditation on movement, time, technology, and collectivity, “Forward Back” engages with the wild landscape and the unusual forms found within Montréal’s Parc Frédérick Back.
Mistaya Hemingway, Kaveh Nabatian
based on "50 Looks" by Merce Cunningham
(Canada, 2023) 13:24 minutes

Forward Back

A person jumps in a wheat field with their arms extended and their head leaning back out of view. They wear a black, stringy, long-sleeved dress-like garment resembling animal hair, and black sneakers.
“Beast” uses a heavy dose of whimsy to ask how the relationship between animals differs from the relationship between humans and animals.
Iwona Pasińska
(Poland, 2022) 10:38 minutes

Beast

Two dancers in long, black dresses with splashes of orange stand on an ice sheet on the edge of a large body of water. Their left arts extend sideways mimicking the neck and head of a bird, while their right hands are held at their lips.
Amid a desolate frozen landscape, “Somber Tides” expresses a cry from a species startled into survival against the elements.
Chantal Caron
Chantal Caron
(Canada, 2024) 13:43 minutes

Somber Tides