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The Winter Mini Fest has ended.
Please, see information for current events on our HOME page.
The 2021 SIDF Winter Mini Fest, available instantly on-demand through March 28, presents a series of dance films paired with live-recorded audience-interactive talkbacks, which allow on-demand viewers to experience an intimate showcase of dance, bringing the performers and their movement up-close and personal – more than ever possible in the regular theater performance setting.
There are two programs (originally presented over two weekends), which include opening remarks by KDC dancers and festival director, Cyrus Khambatta, a selection of short dance films by local and international artists, and a post-performance talkback including international artists.
The Winter Mini Fest On-Demand takes audiences places one can’t go in person right now, playfully thwarting visual perception and letting viewers imagine worlds beyond their own. Relishing in international collaborations, shot in majestic and distant locales, and embellishing the mystery of eccentric stories for an experience that goes worlds beyond the theater. Features artists from the Middle East, Asia, and Seattle.
Audience Quotes:
- “I thought it was an excellent evening of performances–all quite different and each mesmerizing”
- “Beautiful choreography and performances that were well sequences to contrast and complement each other. I listened to the talkback after and appreciated hearing the reactions of other attendees and the choreographer/dancer remarks”
- “All the performances were beautiful, creative, and emotional.”
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Festival Program
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OPENING REMARKS – recorded live-stream with SIDF artists.
Shahar Binyamini’s Paradiso – 10-15 min.
Wrapped in a gauze-like material, Shahar Binyamini’s mesmerizingly crisp movement on beautiful dancers is haunting and electrifying. Dancers bodies and movement are captured in stark intimacy within the courtyard of a stately white stone building acting as a majestic backdrop.
Roni Chadash’s Body#1 – 7 min.
The work by Roni Chadash sews two dancers bodies together through physical movement so close it almost seems like one animal – primal, passionate and flowing.
Shahar Binyamini’s Evolve – 9 min.
In Binyamini’s second work for the Mini Fest, Evolve, the dancers powerfully exert their desire for union but seem torn. Using intense physical exertion their muscles ripple with constant struggle as they try to understand each other. Their determination causes their highly trained bodies to writhe in an excruciating show of physical force, depicting an eternal battle of wills.
Khambatta Dance Company’s Morning to Night – 6.5 min.
Morning to Night is a lush visual work created by Cyrus Khambatta and dancers on Seattle street sculptures revealing a tactile and textured cinematic collage of movement and dancer’s bodies against a cementitious urban terrain. The work evokes the contrasting organic beauty of the human body against the rigid, unforgiving manmade surfaces.
AUDIENCE TALKBACK – recorded live-stream with local and international artists joining.
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OPENING REMARKS – recorded live-stream with SIDF artists.
Shaden Abu Elasal’s Trilogy – 9 min.
Trilogy was shot in Nazareth, the Capital of the Palestinians Arab minority in Israel and looks at the idea of “place” as a space that holds memories, hopes, disappointments, aspirations, experiences, and moments of anguish and joy.
Roni Chadash’s No-Body – 6 min.
No-Body is an intensely intimate and emotional portrayal of the choreographer-dancer, going beyond dance to play with perception of the viewer and the notion of a personal comfort zone. Be prepared to be surprised.
Khambatta Dance Company’s The Invitation – 20 min
Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, choreographer Cyrus Khambatta imagines a steampunk-clad allegory casting humans with animal characteristics in a wonderland that exists behind a mask. Shot I locations around Seattle, the work centers around a magic door.
AUDIENCE TALKBACK – recorded live-stream with local and international artists joining.
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2021 Festival Artists
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Shahar Binyamini is a choreographer and performer. He danced with Batsheva Dance Company from 2006-2013. In 2016, Shahar began his international choreographic path when he created FLAT for Frontier Dance Land, Singapore. Since then he has been commissioned by many international dance companies and theaters including: MENSCH for Saarländische Staattheater, Germany; LUNGS for UCLA; EMPTY3 for Ate9 and Gauthier Dance Company, Germany; PARADISO for Frontier DanceLand, Singapore; VULNER for Norrdans, Sweden; BALLROOM for Festspielhaus St. Polten, Austria; UNTITLED Hanover Ballet, Germany; and I AM for Ballet du Rhin, France. In 2013 Shahar established a research group of dancers, scientists and choreographers called TNUDA which is based in Weizmann Institute and explores the connection between science and movement.
Israeli performer and choreographer Shahar Biniamini was born on 1988 in Lod, Israel. Danced in the Batsheva dance Company from 2007-2013 and performed extensively the repertoire of Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal. During those years Shahar began his activity as gaga teacher and Choreographer through the “dancer create” program of the Company, which later acted as the artistic director of the progrem for 2 years. Today, as an independent dancer and artist, he creates choreographies for theaters and companies Such as Frontier Dancland Company in Singapore and D.I.N in Sweden, as well as videos installations and sculptures which he presents in theaters, museums and galleries in Israel and abroad.
As a teacher for Gaga movement language, Shahar continue to direct artistically the Gaga intensive courses in Tel Aviv and previously in Italy, Los Angele and Japan . As an assistant for Ohad Naharin, Shahar works with main dance companies and teaches his works around the world .
Since 2013, Together with professor Atan Gross from the Weizmann institute in Israel, Shahar established a research group of dancers and scientists which are based in Weizmann institute and explore the connection between science and movement.
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Roni Chadash is a choreographer, performer and teacher. Since 2015, Roni has been researching her particular body language and philosophical statement, one which strongly identifies her works and way of moving. In her physical research, Roni deconstructs the body and transforms it into abstract shapes and figures, using the deconstruction of the body and moving beyond its physical limits. Roni regularly performs around the world. She has received numerous awards for her work including Israel’s Ministry of Culture award for young choreographers 2018.
Roni Chadash is an independent choreographer, performer and teacher, based in Tel-Aviv, Israel, her training included work with Vertigo Dance Workshop and Gaaton Dance Workshop. In 2015, Roni began her independent artistic path, through the media of video-dance. Her early video works received great exposure on social media, as well as invitations from international video-dance festivals. The shift from screen to stage was organic, and in 2015 Roni created her first solo ‘Ani-Ma’, which won the prestigious award of ‘Shades in Dance’ – a well known Israeli competition for young choreographers.
Since then, Roni continued to develop her particular body language and the philosophy behind it, deconstructing the form of ‘dance’ as it is perceived. Roni’s ongoing research for a particular and define langauge led her to create several works, some solo (‘Goofy’, ‘NO-BODY’,’Me & all of that body’), and some collaborating with other performers (‘Victims & Images’, ‘BODY #1’, ’Chapters of Joy’). Her works received numerous awards for their originality, and were invited to various international festivals and theaters.
Her body of work is characterized by challenging how we visually-perceive the human body, and the feminine in particular.
AS A PERFORMER, Roni is collaborating with independent choreographers in Israel and abroad, including Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor, Maya Brinner, Odelya Kuperberg and Satoshi Kudo.
AWARDS:
ISRAEL MINISTRY OF CULTURE AWARD FOR YOUNG CHOREOGRAPHERS 2018
BEST SOLO, MASDANZ 2019
BEST PERFORMER, MASDANZA 2016
BEST PERFORMER, SOLODUO 2016
BEST PERFORMER, BCDC 2016
AUDIENCE AWARD, BCDC 2016
AUDIENCE AWARD, FKM 2016
‘PARTS’ AWARD, BCDC 2016
‘ALEXANDER IZRALOVSKI’ AWARD, FKM 2016
JURY 1ST PRIZE, SHASDES IN DANCE 2015
JURY 3RD PRIZE, MASH 2016
JURY 2ND PRICS, FRINGE FESTIVAL BEER SHEVA
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Shaden Abu Elasal is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer, living and working in Nazareth, where she has established educational programs and projects in dance. She is guided by the desire to develop the art of dance with an emphasis on Arab society, creating a free space for her students to grow, for professional development, and specialized accompaniment in the field of performing arts and dance. She has a bachelor’s degree in dance from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (2001). Shaden performed with the Inbal Dance Theater 2001-2005. She is the founder of the Nazareth School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, supported by the Municipality of Nazareth, where she served as director until 2016. In 2012, she established and directed the first international contemporary dance festival in Nazareth. She established and directed the Aida Contemporary Ballet and Dance School, through the Almedina Association which she also initiated. In 2019, she founded the Shaden Dance Company, a professional dance troupe.
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Khambatta Dance Company
Beginning at New York University and transforming into an award-winning international performing and touring company, its work has been presented in festivals and venues in over 20 countries at venues including The Spoleto Festival USA, The National Center for the Performing Arts (Mumbai, India), The National Choreographic Center (Tour, France) and The Vancouver and San Francisco International Dance Festivals among many others. Currently composed of seven dancers, KDC concluded touring activities in Germany, India and Washington State just prior to the pandemic. It is the only Seattle-based dance company that tours internationally every year (except during Covid 19). During the Covid shutdown this winter, KDC developed an art project in tandem with the South Lake Union business community, creating several dance films and iconic dance photography around sculptural works with a microsite and a community map.
Cyrus Khambatta
Cyrus Khambatta, who is biracial, founded Khambatta Dance Company (KDC) while attending New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. An ever-evolving and adapting artist, he has more than 50 choreographic works which have been presented throughout the US and Europe and South Asia, as well as in Russia, Canada, Mexico, and South America. His work has been commissioned by companies such as Ririe Woodbury Dance (Salt Lake City), Pisorrojo (Caracas, Venezuela), Spectrum Dance Theatre (WA), Evergreen City Ballet (WA) as well as KDC and others. He has received California’s Damen New Choreography award, was selected for an Artistic Leadership program by Dance USA, served as Seattle University Artist in Residence (2011) and nominated for the prestigious Herb Alpert award in the Arts. His work with KDC has been supported by numerous funding and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad including the National Endowment for the Arts, Paul Allen Foundation and many others. He founded the Seattle International Dance Festival currently in its 16th year of operation.
The Invitation
Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Khambatta imagines a steampunk-clad allegory casting humans with animal characteristics in a wonderland that exists behind a mask. Is this how Alice imagines everyone to be behind their masks? Or is this the animal everyone becomes sequestered in their own breathing space? Enjoy this fanciful romp with KDC dancers for a moment out of time.
Choreography: Cyrus Khambatta with the dancers
Producer: Constanze Villines
Videography: Cyrus Khambatta
Dancers: Nathan Cook, Ahven Firth, Ivana Lin, Robert Moore, Leah Russell, Mary Sigward, and Shayley Timm.
Costumes: Denise Johnson
Morning to Night
Morning to Night is a lush visual delight created on Seattle street sculptures revealing a tactile and textured cinematic collage of movement and dancer’s bodies against a cementitious urban terrain. Khambatta, who also attended NYU’s film program, has long been inspired by filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, from which he drew inertia to deliver a film using a hyper-intimate and gritty feel with a rich cinematic density and beauty.
Choreography: Cyrus Khambatta with the dancers
Videography: Cyrus Khambatta and Constanze Villines
Producer: Constanze Villines
Dancers: Nathan Cook, Ahven Firth, Ivana Lin, Robert Moore, Leah Russell, Mary Sigward, and Shayley Timm.
Music: Age of Wood and The End of the World; Original music by Savfk (www.youtube.com/savfkmusic www.facebook.com/savfkmusic)
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