Cultural Offer

CULTURAL ACTIVITES FOR ALL!

Are you looking for cultural activities for your school, senior’s residence, community or cultural center?

This spring, Cinédanse is offering a cultural offer based on the film-poem “According to movement, a story in ten chapters” by director Béatriz Mediavilla. This three-part offer will allow you to watch this inspiring intergenerational film, to virtually participate in a dance workshop and to engage in a stimulating exchange with a guest artist.

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Synopsis : In the summer of 2017, Cinédanse is organizing a series of workshops given by French choreographer Thierry Thieû Niang to volunteer groups of seniors and youth across Québec and in Ottawa. Director Béatriz Mediavilla (Danse avec elles, 2014) is then invited to join the tour from Montréal to Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, from Paspébiac to Rouyn-Noranda. At a time when the pandemic seems to be capsizing our human and intergenerational relationships, Mediavilla’s prose-cinema captures the spirit of the times and gives us hope. Her film, in ten chapters, opens the discussion on subjects that seem more relevant than ever: our relationship to aging, to ourselves, to others, to strangers, to the passage of time. We are moved by a poem, hustled by a manifesto and challenged by a passage from Homer’s Iliad, which resonates as a reminder of the great migrations of yesterday, today.

Because this film-poem is full of testimonies from young people who participated in the workshops, including Charlize Bulhoes-Normand (St-Jean-Port-Joli) and Ilario Del Guercio (Montréal), its distribution in schools is more than relevant. The artists Antoine Charbonneau-Demers, young actor and writer (Robert-Cliche Award for his first novel Coco 2016; Young Author Award from Salon du livre de Paris 2019), Joséphine Bacon, Innu poet, lyricist and director, and Martine Époque, a great pioneer of contemporary dance in Québec, just before leaving us, who philosophized about dance and the true place it should occupy in our lives.

Film Type : Feature documentary – poetic and experimental – dance
Duration : 61 minutes
Direction, Production, Screenplay : Béatriz Mediavilla
Choreographer and Performer : Thierry Thieû Niang
Direction of Photography and Editing : Dominic Leclerc
Film Language : English, French, Spanish and Innu.
Subtitles : French, English and Spanish
Country of Origin : Canada
Country of Filming : Canada

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DISTINCTIONS

Impact doc award, La Jolla, California, United States, Award of merit, documentary
Fine Art Film Festival, Venice Beach, California, United States, Best dance documentary winner

Virtual Workshop with Béatriz Mediavilla

Title : Can we all dance together ?

Description : Using the Zoom platform, all participants are invited to collectively create an experimental choreography. One after the other, every participant will be leading the group, and the other participants will follow the leader. There is a possibility to include family members of a participant, for example the grand-parents or grand-kids, to share a common creation space.

Duration : 60 to 75 minutes per workshop

Number of participants : Ideal for a group of 12 people; can be adapted for a larger group.

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Virtual Exchange with a Guest Artist

Description : The participants are invited to a virtual exchange with a guest artist after the screening. Educational material will be provided to you in order to suggest several possible avenues for this exchange. Afterwards, you will also be able to explore the subjects of your choice with your students using this bank of ideas.

Duration : Approximatively 30 minutes

Number of participants : Maximum 30 participants