a short dance film of 6 minutes, premiered december 2007 at Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, supported in part by American Scandinavian Society Cultural Grant
all photos by Brandon Jacobs-Mills
Poem is a duet between two women
between the camera and what is captured
between a physical world and one imagined
like yin and yang
both inseparable and apart
Poem was filmed in august 2007, throughout an old
residential building in brooklyn, new york. editing and post-production was
completed in december. it is a 6 minute duet performed by two women.
our mission was to create an alternate reality/space for the audience to enter, based on familiar private places people pass through every day: a bathtub, a staircase, and a roof top. In these real spaces, a relationship between the dancers, both real and unreal, is formed.
we created the movements and editing to have a subtle rhythm that carries the audience through the experience at a pace that disrupts analytical thinking, guiding the viewer to sense a relationship in the duet.
the sound design is built on actual recordings from the piece's location, to emphasize its existent atmosphere. different spaces' sounds overlap between the cuts to heighten the viewer's sense of the dancers' connection.
the worlds of the dancers are both inseparable and disjointed. color choices in costumes and locations bring their worlds together like Yin and Yang, a contrast that rhymes. one dancer is running, the other is incapable of moving, both stay in place, but their literal relation is not revealed until the end.
our mission was to create an alternate reality/space for the audience to enter, based on familiar private places people pass through every day: a bathtub, a staircase, and a roof top. In these real spaces, a relationship between the dancers, both real and unreal, is formed.
we created the movements and editing to have a subtle rhythm that carries the audience through the experience at a pace that disrupts analytical thinking, guiding the viewer to sense a relationship in the duet.
the sound design is built on actual recordings from the piece's location, to emphasize its existent atmosphere. different spaces' sounds overlap between the cuts to heighten the viewer's sense of the dancers' connection.
the worlds of the dancers are both inseparable and disjointed. color choices in costumes and locations bring their worlds together like Yin and Yang, a contrast that rhymes. one dancer is running, the other is incapable of moving, both stay in place, but their literal relation is not revealed until the end.
performed by: Saskia Hannemann Maia Elisabeth Sørensen/choreographed, directed and produced by: Maia Elisabeth Sørensen/director of photography, editing and effects: Brandon Jacobs-Mills/sound: Taavi Rämmar/lighting: Brandon Jacobs-Mills/costumes: Maia Eilsabeth Sørensen/assistants on set: Levi Steffensen Kristina Skovby Ernesto Arencibia/thank you's: all residents of 240 Broadway, Brooklyn
screenings include: Dance Camera West (Los Angeles), Dance on Camera (New York), Dança Em Foco (Brasilien), VideodanzaBa (Argentina), Strasbourg International Film Festival (Frankrig), LOIKKA Festival (Finland),Triskelion Arts (New York), Dansens Dage, (Cinemateket), Risk:Reclaim:Entertain, Råhuset.
Maia Elisabeth Sørensen - Lipkesgade 8, 4 mf - 2100 København Ø - Denmark - +45 53 15 06 51 - powerpondusprojects@gmail.com
