Annual Premiere at CU Boulder

Online Sept 25 – Oct 2

Tickets: $10 general, $7 CU students. Available here.

Once again we’ll partner with our friends at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Department of Theatre & Dance to present highlights of the season’s official selections. See below for more info on the associated Artist Chats.

Covid-19/ Quarantine Challenge Selections

Online Sept 25 – Oct 2

Free screening on our website.

You may remember that we issued a call specifically for very short films created while under stay-at-home orders, or while practicing physical distancing. We’re planning to release those films in serial fashion on our social media beginning very soon, then host a FREE online screening of the complete collection. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram to catch those releases! See below for more info on the associated Artist Chats.

Artist Chat: Staying Creative in Trying Times

Monday, Sept 28, 6pm MST

Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 987 3142 2266
Passcode: 916236

Artists of so many kinds are living differently as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this chat, an international panel of Sans Souci’s contributing artists will discuss questions of staying creative right now. What does it mean to be creatively hungry? Has your practice shifted? How? What do you see ‘after’ these times?
Join us for the Zoom chat moderated by Keith Haynes, and featuring:
• “Morning Coffee” director Deny Tri Ardianto (Indonesia)
• “Day 27” director Charli Brissey (USA)
• “Isolations” director Talia Shea Levin and choreographer Maritza Navarro (USA)

Artist Chat: Intersectionality and Identity in Screendance

Wednesday, Sept 30, 9am MST

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Meeting ID: 958 2069 2790
Passcode: 916236

An international panel of Sans Souci’s contributing artists will discuss how race, racial justice, and gender and sexual orientation and expression are involved in their work. We’ll ask: How do you think about the bodies you put onscreen in your work? How do you consider an audience’s lenses for viewing your work while making it? What role does screendance in general play in this conversation? How would you change the scene (dance, film, dance film, film festivals, academy, any of the above) in the next 50 years to create a better landscape for all involved?

Join us for the Zoom chat moderated by Cara Hagan, and featuring:
• “Making Men” directors – Antoine Panier & Harold George (Belgium)
• “Jah Intervention” directors Welket Bungué (Portugal) & Daniel Santos (Brazil)
• “TIA: THIS is Africa” director Matthieu Maunier-Rossi (France)

Artist Chat: Bodies in Spaces – where site specificity meets the screen

Thursday, Oct 1, 10am MST

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Meeting ID: 950 2761 2717
Passcode: 916236

Sans Souci has a long history of screening dance films created for and with specific, memorable locations, intersecting and overlapping with ‘site-specific’ choreography. We’ll ask an international panel of Sans Souci contributing artists how they moved into this kind of work, and about the process of putting movement in the site (access, choreography, improvisation, and adaptation, and challenges). What concerns about an environment draw an artist to it?

Join us for the Zoom chat, moderated by Heike Salzer, and featuring:
• “Etch” directors Abby Warrilow & Lewis Gourlay (U.K.)
• “The Last Children” director Fu Le (France)
• “Genna” director Thomas Delord (Belgium)
• “Habitat” directors Sheila Garcia & Inés Valderas (Spain)

SSF Staff Chat: New Possibilities for Screendance

Friday Oct 2 at 12 noon

Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 914 5557 6471
Passcode: 916236

Members of Sans Souci’s curatorial team will discuss criteria for selection and trends in the field of screendance. We’ll tackle topics like changes to the field since the onset of the pandemic, screendance as a tool for pedagogy, and the well-loved topic of where we stand in the evolution of screendance. Conversation features SSF’s co-Artistic Directors Ana Baer and Michelle Bernier, plus long-time SSF collaborators and curators Rosely Conz and Heike Salzer. Hope to see you there!

With Love,
The SSF Team