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May 25, 2024 | emily | General

Films from around the world presented by Ciné-Corps

Ciné-Corps delves into the intricacies and possibilities of the body through dance.

Thursday, June 6th @ 7pm – Frédéric Nauczyciel
A Baroque Ball (Shade)
A Baroque Ball (Shade) features 15 performers dancing to a Bach concerto in a baroque interpretation with clavichords.

Thursday, June 6th @ 8:30pm – Nina Laisné and François Chaignaud
Mourn, O Nature!
“Why awaken me, O breath of spring,” from the opera Werther by Jules Massenet, was one of the airs that Michael Jackson sang in the intimacy of his own studio. This little known and intriguing piece of information is the starting point for Nina Laisné and François Chaignaud’s project, Mourn, O Nature!. In this film, the artists reinvent a Werther who has been absorbed by Jackson and shares a fascination for nature, the desire to revisit ancestral legends, and the expression of a distressing love. The performer sings, dances, and metamorphoses; he slips into different vocal and physical registers and seems to continue Michael Jackson’s dream of total expression.

Friday, June 7th @ 7pm – Smaïl Kanouté
Never Twenty One
Echoing the hashtag #Never21, coined by the Black Lives Matter movement, the dance film Never Twenty One, wishes to pay tribute to the victims of gun violence in New York, Rio, or Johannesburg… who will never turn 21 years old. Through their graffitied bodies, three dancers embody both the words of the victims and their families, and the evils they have suffered. Like wandering spirits, they tell us about these stolen and broken lives. Moving from krump to electro, popping to contemporary dance, different energies slowly come through to bring out the victims’ invisible presence and name their unspeakable pain.

Friday, June 7th @ 8:30pm – Clément Cogitore
Les Indes Galantes
Les Indes Galantesis an opera-ballet created by Jean-Philippe Rameau in 1753. Clément Cogitore adapts, in collaboration with three choreographers Bintou Dembélé, Brahim Rachiki, and Igor Carouge, a short part of the ballet by mobilizing a group of krump dancers, a dance form born in South Central Los Angeles in the early 1990s as an expression of protest against police brutality. The colonial overtones of this 18th-century opera, which presented toxic stereotypes of non-Europeans are removed in the film’s re-envisioning, opening up a space for collective movements that offer justice, inclusion, and freedom to everyone.

Sunday, June 9th @ 12:00pm – Carole Arcega
Hymen
Hymen is about looking for an organic cinema, an intimate relationship is created, a body moves and mutes to become the film’s skin.

Sunday, June 9th @ 1:30pm – Lo Fi Dance Theory
Move Freely
Move Freely is a documentary exploring dance as a life force within the marginalized Roma community in Belgrade, Serbia. This project brings together choreographer/director Wynn Holmes, cinematographer Andrew Amorim, and journalist Julia Kidder with a focus on Roma youth as they transcend imposed boundaries through dance and performance.

Sunday, June 9th @ 3:00pm – Mohamad Moe Sabbah and Khansa
Khayef
Khayef is a public invitation to the personal living room of a young Middle Eastern boy belly dancing in front of his family, unveiling Arab society’s perception of effeminacy and androgyny. A celebration of fluidity and nonconformity that spans various different spectra such as transformation and creativity.