Connected Collections

Corinne Langmuir, Erin Lum
Duration: 11:50

SOMETHING TO FORGET ME BY is a love letter to friendship, childhood, and bittersweet goodbyes. When two ex-friends reunite after falling out, they dance through the memories of the summer before they decide to forget each other.

Credits:

Directors: Corinne Langmuir and Erin Lum
Choreographers, Performers: Erin Lum and Shona Kiyama
Editor: Corinne Langmuir
Director of Photography: Belen Garcia
Original Music: Fabio Henao Caviedes

Kaya Joy Tsurumi
Duration: 6:01

PEACE PIECE is a short film made by Kaya Tsurumi and Taitania Higuchi. This film is loosely based on Kaya’s experiences folding origami throughout the course of the pandemic, and a collection of her photographs featuring paper cranes in spaces that feel like home. Unravelling, settling, repeating, fitting in - all aspects of the comforting mechanism that Kaya finds in the Japanese craft of origami, specifically the symbolic and iconic “tsuru” (crane). PEACE PIECE hopes to inspire the viewer to consider the great joys of their everyday activities.

Credits:

Director, Performer, Editor: Kaya Tsurumi
Cinematographer, Editor: Taitania Higuchi

This film was made with the support of Dance West Network's 2021/2022 Ancillary Project, which involved a mentorship with Lisa Gelley, collaboration with Taitania Higuchi and writing by Sarah Wong.

Alexander Thornton
Duration: 10:11

SOFT PALATE is a warm switch, a precious shattering, a vivid feel. A dreamscape not far from here. Close your eyes. Submerge yourself. Under the surface, sensitive creatures thrive. Hidden, nestled, burrowing. SOFT PALATE is a choreographic exploration on perspective and texture as experienced through three characters' journey into a dream world of subconscious reflections.

Credits:

Creator, Performer: Emmalena Fredriksson, in collaboration with Hayley Gawthrop and Jessica Keeling
Video: Alex Thornton
Lighting Design: Taylor Janzen, Gabriel Raminhos
Music: Linda Fox
Photography: Luciana D'Anunciacao
Costumes: Alaia Hamer

Candace Kumar
Duration: 7:48

CROSSING WATERS is a cultural reimagination film showcasing first-generation Filipino-Canadian dancers performing contemporized Philippine dance on Scarborough Bluffs Beach. The film depicts Pangalay, the fingernail dance performed by communities in the Sulu Archipelago in the southern Philippines. The movements are slow and meditative, imitating the Sulu Sea combined with modern hip hop music and street dance styles. This film aims to connect Pangalay across the Canadian Filipino diaspora and shed light on Filipino culture in the Canadian dance space.

Credits:
Director, Choreographer: Candace Kumar
Cinematographer: Ian Simon
Assistant Choreographers: Diana Reyes, Faye Roncesvalles
Cast: Candace Kumar, Diana Reyes, Faye Roncesvalles
Music Composition: Lex Junior
Indigenous Culture Bearer: Sitti Obeso
Co-produced by: Guelph Dance

Jeanette Kotowich
Duration: 14:25

The creative process of this work took many iterations in the embodied journey to uncover and reveal NIMÎHTOWIN ASKÎHK. What has taken shape is our dynamic and complicated, yet beautiful relationship to DANCING THE LAND - NIMÎHTOWIN ASKÎHK. As we sensitised ourselves to each landscape, it became clear that even in our heartfelt attempts to inhabit our surroundings without imposition, the Land itself has been imposed upon in irreversible & unavoidable ways. And so… we followed our intuition, senses and Spirit in the extraction and shaping of this work. In collaboration with the Land we attuned our ideas to site, weather, sun, cloud, sky, tide and time of day. This process called for our whole selves to be in observation, integration, reflection, and creative activation. Kinanāskomitinān. 

"We are born into a world that has both beauty and brokenness. How do we learn to dance with those contradictions and find healing for ourselves and the land?” - Chloe Ziner

Credits:

Concept, Direction, Design, Performance: Jeanette Kotowich
Collaborator, Cinematographer, Drone Operator, Editor: Chloe Ziner
Collaborator, Cinematographer, Projection Design: Jessica Gabriel
Original Sound Design: Roxanne Nesbitt (with Viola by John Kastelic)'Song for Today' Written and Sung by Jeanette Kotowich, Produced by Kathleen Nisbet

Ashley (Caiyi) Song
Duration: 3:35

"I'm never good enough..." OUT OF: BREATHE presents anxiety-related bodily movements through collage, animation, and experimental soundscape. This film documents and celebrates the recorded movement of the body as it goes through extreme breathing patterns and out-of-body experiences. Breathing, very much like our day-to-day emotions, is something often overlooked when everything is going fine. Until incidents such as anxiety attacks eliminate the normal breathing pattern, it then places a person in the most vulnerable position gasping for air. This film explores the idea of being "out of breath and unable to breathe" from both physically and emotionally challenged perspectives.

Credits: Director: Ashley Song
Cinematographer: Coco Zhou
Production Assistant: Alen Kim, Gabriella Hu
Editor: Ashley Song
Music: Kenyama