Dance Dance Dance – 2026
Tuesday, April 14, 3:15 PM
SABW – Elephant
Directors: Balázs Sánta, Dávid Maruscsák, Dorina Szatory, Music Video, Hungary, 6 min
To live is to burn all that is burnable in us. The desire to mold, shape, and leave a mark is encoded in us — self-expression as destruction. An exploration of the tension between creation, decay, and rebirth. This unbridled, raw force manifests in this work, leaving its imprint and ultimately transforming its surroundings entirely.
Repertoire of Death
Director: Guadalupe Arellanes, Experimental, USA, 6 min
A lucid dream leads to a dance with Death.
Path
Director: Ian Eastwood, Music Video, USA, 3 min
An ambiguously emotional performance and a visual interpretation with movement.
Day in the Life
Director: Atara C Fink, Experimental, USA, 12 min
A day in the life of an influencer type who has lost touch with reality. Her mind, a fractured mirror, reflects a disturbing blend of paranoia, narcissism, addiction, anxiety, and exhaustion.
Purgatorio
Director: Stephanie Miracle, Auden Lincoln-Vogel, Experimental, USA, 6 min
You can’t win a game you don’t know how to play, but you also can’t lose.
The Gift
Director: Mikki Sindhunata, Narrative, Netherlands, 11 min
On her 34th birthday, Alesya retreats to the solitude of her remote home, following her private ritual of spending the day alone. But when a mysterious box appears at her doorstep, her carefully controlled world begins to shift.
Fine Black Frame
Director: Leah Doz, Experimental, Canada, 7 min
One man explores and defies the definitions of Blackness, queerness, and masculinity in a kinetic self-portrait.
Shaping Change
Director: Anna Fabricius, Documentary, Sweden, Norway, 11 min
Three women in an old bath house reflect on their bodies while using movement as a tool for understanding and expressing emotions arising from bodily change.
Just to Say I’m Fine
Directors: Danièle Wilmouth, Peter Carpenter, Experimental, USA, 15 min
Hindsight is 20/20. Four middle-aged performers take a candid look back on transformative moments from their pasts. A journey from regret to acceptance and isolation to connection – exploring guilt, compassion and empathy.
Slet 1988
Director: Marta Popivoda, Experimental, Serbia, 20 min
Bodies, architecture, and ideas age differently while passing together through time. Sonja Vukićević (73), a dancer and choreographer from Belgrade, is known for her anti-Milošević activism and her monumental solo at the final Youth Day celebration in Yugoslavia in 1988—just before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of Yugoslav wars. In a gymnastic hall in New Belgrade, a district emblematic of the utopian architecture of socialist modernism, Sonja trains her resilient, aging body—a body as an archive.