II. Dancing on the Planet

Dancing on the Planet is a curated dance film screening featuring shorts from Ireland, South Korea, France, Belgium, Germany, the US, and the UK, and it will remind you just how small you are, and how big this world can be. This collection of art shorts repositions the viewer in relationship to the Earth and connects our bodies to the places we call home, near and far. Through a multitude of approaches including site-specific screendance, experimental, and documentary, this screening illustrates that the range of humanity’s expression is as vast as the range of environments on the planet.

This screening runs approximately 92 minutes, including a 10-minute intermission.

Directions to the Other Side of the World

2025 / Ireland / 12 min
Directed by Derrick Belcham
Choreography by Kiley Dolaway
Dancing by Kiley Dolaway
Music Composed by Linda Buckley, Hannah Peel
Narration by Iarla ó lionáird

A woman explores the far reaches of rural Ireland in an attempt to make peace with the darker aspect of her spirit. Shot on location in County Kerry, Ireland in 2025, Directions to the Other Side of the World is a blessing, in the style of noted Irish poet John O’Donahue, for those of us visited by a depressed and desolate spirit, a sincere wish for friendship with the greyer aspects of self, and the darker times of day and season. Narrated and accompanied by the modern master of the Sean-nós tradition of singing, Iarla ó Lionáird, and scored by contemporary Irish composers Linda Buckley and Hannah Peel, the film attempts to bridge generations of place and ritual into poetic and practical film of belonging and peace.

London Vignettes

2025 / United Kingdom / 5 min
Directed by Ana Baer, Heike Salzer
Produced by WECreate Productions
Choreography by Ana Baer, Heike Salzer and dancers
Featuring WECreate Productions

An embodied site exploration, engaging with the dynamic flow and the urban textures of the city. Filmed on locations across London.

Drain

2024 / United States / 5 min
Directed by Shannon Morzov
Produced by Shannon Morzov, Jessie Ryan
Choreography by Jesse Ryan
Dancing by Robyn O’Dell, Jesse Ryan

A meditation in movement on the strained limitations of the California landscape.

Delicate Balance

2024 / Scotland / 4 min
Directed by Jennifer Keller
Choreography by Jennifer Keller with Frances Drewery and Freya Jeffs
Music by Andy Hasenpflug

Two dancers gently perch on a fragile landscape of craggy slate and weathered wildflowers, teetering on the edge of balance within their fragile ecosystem.

This film was created during the Screendance in the Landscape workshop with Katrina McPherson and Colin McPherson, Easdale Island, Scotland.

Never Lost
2025 / United States, South Korea / 12 min

Directed by Li Chiao-Ping
Produced by Li Chiao-Ping
Choreography by Li Chiao-Ping
Dancing by Elisabeth Anne (O’Keefe) Roskopf 이지영
Cinematography by Christal Wagner
Music Composed by Bora Yoon, Kim So Ra, Axletree

Directed and choreographed by Li Chiao-Ping, Never Lost is an 11-minute dance film shot en route to and on location in South Korea, during dancer and adoptee Elisabeth (O’Keefe) Roskopf’s first trip to her birthplace since adoption took her away out of her home country. Featuring personal unscripted narration, choreography, and poetic landscapes, Never Lost witnesses and captures the body in between, in search, and in the moment of facing the challenges of reclaiming self and identity, as well as familial and cultural histories. With cinematography and editing by Christal Wagner, this is Li and Wagner’s third screendance project together and their second with Elisabeth Roskopf.

Seasons of Dance

2025 / Belgium, France, Germany / 44 min
Directed by Tommy Pascal
Produced by Boris Berger, Bénédicte Buffière, Le Grizzly / Martha Productions / Héliox Films
Co-Produced by ARTE FRANCE, Hessisches Staatsballet, Peeping Tom
Choreography by Peeping Tom, Bobbi Jene Smith, Or Schraiber, Imre, Marne van Opstal, Emilie Leriche
With the participation of RTBF (Belgian Television)

A sensitive exchange between choreography, music, nature, and a camera. Seasons of Dance brings together four internationally acclaimed choreographers and four dance duos to depict four phases of love, set to the music of Max Richter’s “The New Four Seasons”. In this groundbreaking composition, Richter combines Vivaldi’s iconic “The Four Seasons” with modern electronic elements, creating a fresh and emotionally layered soundscape that respects the original work while adding a contemporary dimension. Each of the four choreographers brings a unique vision to one phase of love, while the four dance couples bring these emotions to life through powerful and expressive movement.