This winter Dumfries and Galloway Dance will be running monthly online watch parties, showcasing short pieces of contemporary dance while bringing together and developing audiences for dance across the region.
Selected by a panel of independent dance experts, Dumfries and Galloway Dance will host a diverse mix of films over the next 12 months.
Loose Leaf Tea by Natasha Gilmore, Barrowland Ballet
Founded in 2007, Barrowland Ballet is now one of Scotland’s most exciting and successful contemporary dance companies built around the artistic work of choreographer Natasha Gilmore. The company produces high quality, accessible dance theatre performances which tour nationally and internationally to small and mid-scale venues. The work’s themes are delivered with wit and humour, and the insightful observations of human behaviour are rooted in her personal stories.
About the film:
Natasha Gilmore is the founder and Artistic Director of Barrowland Ballet, one of Scotland’s most exciting and internationally successful contemporary dance companies. Their comic dance film, Loose Leaf Tea, plays tea drinking rituals across three generations of women; from imaginary tea parties, a quick take away cuppa, to teaching the etiquette of tea drinking. Exploring connections between generations and reflecting the cycle of life, this film challenges concepts of ageing by showing older dancers in unexpected ways. Barrowland Ballet would like to dedicate this screening to the featured dancer Diana Payne-Myers who died in November at the age of 92. www.barrowlandballet.co.uk
EGO by Dan Löwenstein & Northern Ballet
Dan Löwenstein is a Film Maker and Director based in London, he loves learning from people and letting their personality filter through into what he shoots, he is a huge fan of collaboration, and absolutely loves working with different people and combining their experiences.
About the film:
Most of us have an alter ego hiding under the surface. We try our best to keep it in, but sometimes it escapes out of our minds into reality.
Take a front row seat into the psyche of a relationship. Using world class ballet, krump, popping & bboying we witness different moments played out in pure contrast by four incredible dancers.
This is EGO, a Northern Ballet original dance film, directed and developed by Dan Lowenstein with choreography by Kenneth Tindall.