Tell me a dance (2018)

Regina Rähn's documentary reveals three perspectives on telling a story with a dance: the choreographer's, dancers' and audience's point of view. 

Kerstin, The Choreographer, leads her 9-person dance crew in the tiring, but hopeful process of creating a dance performance. A lot of work goes into setting the choreography but also explaining the emotions, facial and body expressions, schemes of movement. All these factors serve the interest of delivering a message. The particular project „Ilmsi Unes” („Awake Asleep”) uses base of The Nutcraker story mixed with modern day semiotics to draw attention to current society issues: virtual world and the blurry line between real and virtual, surveillance society and paranoia, shallowness and mindless consuming. But a performance without the props, costumes, music and lights is just choreography – simple dance language. Male Lead Dancer and Female Lead Dancer use words and their bodies to shed light on what is storytelling with a dance in it's purest form.

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