Mitchell Rose

Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Mitchell Rose was a choreographer whose company toured for 15 years, including the Spoleto Festivals in the U.S. and Italy, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and numerous New York seasons in venues such as the Joyce Theatre, Dance Theatre Workshop, and Joseph Papp’s New York Dance Festival at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. He then pivoted to filmmaking, entering The American Film Institute in Hollywood as a Directing Fellow. Since A.F.I., his films have won 100+ awards and are screened around the world. He was an Associate Professor of dance-filmmaking at The Ohio State University.

His technique of “hyper-matchcutting” has become its own genre in the screendance field, and in 2018 he was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music to make a dance-film of that type featuring 52 seminal international choreographers including Ohad Naharin, Mark Morris, Elizabeth Streb, Bill T. Jones, Meredith Monk, William Forsythe, and Lucinda Childs.

The New York Times called him: “A rare and wonderful talent.” The Washington Post wrote that his work was “in the tradition of Chaplin, Keaton, and Tati—funny and sad and more than the sum of both.”

His book Reimagining Dance on Screen: A Practical Guide for Dance-Filmmakers which will be published by Routledge later this spring.

www.mitchellrose.com

Attention Span (2020)
An experiment in seeing—in exploded perspective. A dancer is shot from 16 camera angles and edited at a disturbing rate. It is a response to our culture’s hunger for haste. But suddenly there is stillness—only an unchanging portrait of raw humanity, photography’s most sublime imagery.

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