BEYOND
The dance film BEYOND is the aesthetic response to one of humankind’s strategies to handle a global pandemic; Removing oneself from civilization and detaching from whatever does not serve us anymore. Exploring new truths and roads to inner peace seem to be the only way to rise above collective anxiety.
BEYOND presents a number of absurd and surreal tableaus - a human beings’ awkward attempts on connecting with nature to only find herself more alienated than before. The lack of movement, the abstract non-moving dance, creates an interaction between inner and external motions. Like someone said: When you cannot go outside – go inside.
BEYOND is commissioned by CPH Stage as a part of a larger international collaboration between: Nowy Teatr (Poland), Taipei Performing Arts Centre (Taiwan), West Kowloon Cultural District (Hongkong), Bangkok International Performing Arts Market (Thailand) and CPH Stage (Denmark).
AWARDS:
Best Experimental Film, FROSTBITE International Film Festival in March 2021
Best Sound Design, FROSTBITE International Film Festival in March 2021
TOURING:
Teatro San Materno, Danc'in Cinematic Spaces (16.17.03.2024, Switzerland)
ULTRA Screendance Festival, Centro Espressioni Cinematografiche/Cinema Visionario (16.-17.03.2023, Italy)
INTERNATIONALES SOLO TANZ THEATER FESTIVAL STUTTGART (16.-19.03.2023, Germany)
Jumping Frames (13.09.2023, Hong Kong)
B12 Festival, DOCH11, EDEN***** (10.07.2022 + 26.07.2022, Germany)
Taiwan Bottle Post (18.01.2022, Taiwan)
Filmfest by Rogue Dancer (18.01.2022, USA)
Théâtre Alexandrinski (23.-24.10.2021, Russia)
International Meeting on Video-dance and Video-performance
in collaboration with Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne (23.-27.10.2021, online)
FIFTH WALL FEST (08.-17.10.2021, Phillipines)
Fiver Dance Film Festival (16.10.2021, Spain)
Thessaloniki Cinedance International (24.-26.09.2021, Greece)
POOL21 (08.-11.09.2021, Germany)
TANZAHOi International Dance Film Festival (03.-11.09.2021, Germany)
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival (01.-05.09.2021, Romania)
Cinematica Festival (06.08.2021, Italy)
Bogotá Experimental Film Festival (01.-31.08.2021, Columbia)
Dance on Screen 5th Edition, Spielboden Dornbirn (18.07.2021, Austria)
SHINE Online International Film Festival (05.05.2021-05.06.2021, Canada)
Dance On Screen Festival Graz (18.-20.06.2021, Austria)
FROSTBITE International Indie Fest (01.-31.03.2021, USA)
Nowy Teatr, Email Art (22.09.2020, Poland)
credits:
Choreography and Art Direction: Simone Wierød / Cinematography: Tim Panduro / Dancer: Christina Dyekjær / Music: M€RCY