** Co-presented with Cornish College of the Arts’ Screendance Program **

(Emma Lai, Seattle, WA, 1 min)

A solo at the edge of land and water.

This film was created as part of Cornish College of the Arts’ Dance Department course, Introduction to Screendance, Fall 2018.

(Catriona Urquhart, Seattle, WA, 2 min)

A reverential introspection on the fleeting nature of the feeling of place.

This film was created as part of Cornish College of the Arts’ Dance Department course, Digital Dance Directed Studies.

(Kinsey De Folo, Marysville, WA, 3 min)

Alone in her parked car, a woman is overtaken by visions of a parallel world or perhaps her future self.

This film was created as part of Cornish College of the Arts’ Dance Department course, Digital Dance Directed Studies.

(Kiana Harris, Seattle, WA, 12 min)

The second installment of the AJE IJO Short Dance Film Series centers the humanity, resiliency, vulnerability of black & african diasporic people [of all genders], interrogating the western gender binary and interrupting accompanying notions of masculinity and femininity.

(Sasha Chudacoff, Crested Butte, CO, 8 min)

A dance and music collaboration between sisters exploring a coal mining site from the 1920’s where an iconic structure called the Gronk still stands. Body based dance research and song writing were translated based on the mining history of this place. The sisters collected stories and myths on Peanut and Pershing Mine from elders in Crested Butte, CO. Sasha developed gestures and movement themes from the mining stories and Sophia created lyrics and music. The Gronk overlooks spectacular views of Paradise Divide in the West Elk mountain range. The sights are beautiful and popular for outdoor recreation; however sadly still toxic. The land has only partially recuperated from destruction. Mosses are the first step in ecological restoration of toxic mine sites. Very few mosses are growing here. After land violence, how is spirit of place honored?

(Sharon Zweiback, Seattle, WA, 2 min)

An experimental dance short, exploring the unexplainable events that create power struggles between two people, which often aren’t equitable.

(Marcy Stone-Francois, Seattle, WA, 3 min)

Music video for Jenn Champion’s “Going Nowhere” featuring dancers Laura Aschoff and Markeith Wiley.

(Jeff Schick, Seattle, WA, 2018, 4 min)

HATCH is a short film that features experimental dance as a metaphor to the awakening of the self. The film is a creative partnership with the Alan Watts Organization, featuring the spoken word of the late British-American philosopher.

With its sci-fi undertones, the film features Italian-American movement artist Lavinia Vago as she explores her newly hatched, human body upon emerging from her chrysalis. Set to a symbolic backdrop of a womb, HATCH showcases visuals of a human’s transformation from birth to becoming a fully-functioning, fully-aware organism.

Screendance, or Dance Cinema, is distinguished from other film genres by its emphasis on the craft and composition of movement in the framed image, and through the articulate and intentional use of the camera in relationship to movement and choreography. A collection of contemporary dance films from students participating in the Screendance program at Cornish College of the Arts.

This course provides students with basic, hands-on experience preparing for, shooting, and editing a dance film. Students learn the vocabulary and general concepts involved in camera and video equipment use, video editing and dance composition for film, and gain a perspective on current and historic filmmaking through in-class analysis of contemporary dance films.