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Dance Film Shorts

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Dance Majors in Covid Times

Dance Majors in Covid Times

Choreographer/Editor: Giselle Ruzany
Assistant Stage Manager: Rachel Kaufman
Location Production Associate: Nicole Reyes
Music: Excerpts from Libertango
Dancers in 2014 Maida Withers Dance Construction Company:
Shannon Elizabeth O’Brien, Giselle Ruzany
Dancers: Carmen Emilia Cintron, Arie Ozary, Paige Valego

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Me, Myself, and I

Me, Myself, and I

Choreographer/Editor: Katherine Auerswald
Sound Designer: Alicia Januzzi
Assistant Stage Manager: Hannah Jacobson
Music: Drenas by PEDRO
Dancers: Olivia Ferguson, Hannah Krantz, Aaron Mancus, Anna Stolt

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Journeys of Self

Journeys of Self

Director/Choreographer/Editor: Alison Janega
Assistant Stage Manager: Kenny Silver
Costume Designer: Adalia Vera Tonneyck
Sound Designer: Alison Janega & Kenny Silver
Music: Maddy’s Story, Slideshow, The Lake, and We All Knew by Labrinth
Dancers: Cate Alvaro, Kate Carpenter, Nateé Himmons, Elle McNeill, Isabella Meurer
Special thanks to Judith Hengevald and Mylisa Himmons for their filming assistance.

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Glitch

Glitch

Choreographer/Editor: Emma Wasserman
Sound Designer: Emma Wasserman
Dancer: Emma Wasserman

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Our Place in Nature

Our Place in Nature

Choreographer: Hannah Jacobson
Sound Designer: Chloe Olwell
Assistant Stage Manager: Kinaya McEady
Music: Persistent by Loscil; Guaranteed (Instrumental) by Eddie Vedder
Dancers: Lena Salino, Violet Radmacher-Willis, Anna Stolt

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intrspxtn

intrspxtn

Choreographer/Dancer/Editor: Shannan Richard
Music: Space Song by Beach House, slowed & reverbed by Star Child tm.
Audio, Camera Assistants: Cyrus Imbernino and Matthew Richard
Falling movement inspired by @swimminginmouthwash

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Appraisal

APPRAISAL

Choreographer/Editor: Aleny Serna
Sound Designer: Harrison Kidd
Assistant Stage Manager: Zoe Warren
Music: Jean Sound Design Studio
Dancers: Marney O’Connor, Zoe Warren, Emma Wasserman

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but it can be

But It Can Be

Choreographer: Julia Chodyla
Sound Designer: Anna Phillips
Assistant Stage Manager: Jade Tortorice
Music: 47.48 by Childish Gambino
Dancers: Trevor Frantz, Jade Tortorice, Paige Valegio, Christina Zengin-Karaian

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The Light

The Light

Choreographer/Editor: Jill Canning
Costume Designer: Adalia  Vera Tonneyck
Sound Designer: Melanie Malson
Assistant Stage Manager: Robin Fern
Music: Dream State, Change is Everything and Enough of Our Machines
by Son Lux
Dancers: Olivia Ferguson, Robin Fern, Taylor Silverstein

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cornered

cornered

Choreographer/Editor: Trevor Frantz
Sound Designer: Trevor Frantz
Dancer: Trevor Frantz
Music: Count to Nine by The Japanese House

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chatter in the skull

chatter in the skull

Choreographer: Chloe Davis
Sound Designer: Gabriella Dubois
Assistant Stage Manager: Grace Eberts
Music: Overthinking Will Kill Your Reality by Alan Watts, La Luna y el Lobo (Carrot Green Expedition) by Mantanza, Oceanvs Orientalis
Dancers: Gracie Fletcher, Mimi Jurion, Marney O’Connor, Lisa Roberts

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Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors

Choreographer: Maddie Sell
Sound Designer: Rebecca Wei
Music: Dance Yrself Clean by LCD Soundsystem
Dancers: Elyse Butts, Kate Carpenter

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truth and deceit

truth and deceit

Choreographer: Kinaya McEady
Sound Designer: Caroline Kriegstein
Assistant Stage Manager: Valerie Pena
Location Production Associates: Victor Gandy
Music: Dancing Circle by Hanyo van Oosterom & Michel Banabila;
A Palé by Rosalia
Dancers: Arianne Gandy, Amanda Msallem, Shannan Richards, Sophia Young

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Ritual in Silhouette

Ritual in Silhouette

Choreographer: Dana Tai Soon Burgess
Editor: Felipe Oyarzun Moltedo
Videographers: Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Felipe Oyarzun Moltedo
Costumes: Judy Hansen
Music: I am Coming for My Things by Missy Mazzoli, Opaque by
Hildur Gudnadottir, Vespers for a New Dark Age: New Dark Age, Interlude 2, and excerpts from Machine by Missy Mazzoli, A Deal with Caos by Johan Johannsson
Location: The Kreeger Museum - Sculpture Garden
Sculptures:
- Richard Deutsch, Against the Day, 2006, granite, Gift of the Chevy Chase Land Company of Montgomery County, Maryland,
The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
- Kendall Buster, Garden Snare, 1998, steel, shade cloth, Courtesy of the artist
- Sandra Muss, Portals, 2016, mirrored steel aluminum, rusted wire mesh, plants, Gift of the artist, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
Assistant Stage Manager: Aleny Serna
Dancers: Katherine Auerswald, Robin Fern, Trevor Frantz, Aaron Mancus, Arielle Ostry, Aleny Serna, Valerie Peña, Christina Zengin-Karaian

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