In 1928, Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando, the first novel in which the main character changes sex in the middle of the story. A century later, trans writer and activist Paul B. Preciado decides to send a film letter to Virginia Woolf: her Orlando has come out of her fiction and is living a life she could have never imagined. Preciado organises a casting and gathers 26 contemporary trans and non-binary people, from 8 to 70…
In a dance studio in Lyon, a curious group meets every Monday. Some of them have already crossed paths in the corridors of the Vinatier hospital. All amateurs, they discover movement and the pleasure of dancing They discover movement and the pleasure of dancing together and find themselves in the same creative momentum around Ariane, a choreographer. In partnership with the Maison de la Danse de Lyon and the Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier. With the…
After the huge success of Via Kanana, their collaboration with the South African artist Gregory Maqoma, the Via Katlehong wished to entrust their next creation to two European dance talents: Amala Dianor and Marco da Silva Ferreira… Two singular universes at the crossroads of mixed cultures for a shared evening turned towards the joy of dancing and the desire of sharing. EMAPHAKATHINI de Amala Dianor In Emaphakathini, Amala Dianor celebrates youth and the fury of life.…
There remains only silence in the “Green Jail” in Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan. Before World War II, “Green Jail” was a large-scale mining village under Greater East Asia Imperialism which imprisoned thousands of miners, who were from Kyushu, Japanese colonies Taiwan and Korea and other places of Japan. Most of them died from malaria or were forced to work there. As for “Taiwanese miners”, the morphine injection was prevalent so that they could work nonstop…
“Being nude in the flesh doesn’t mean we strip down to our naked hearts,” says an odoriko dancer. But to this film camera, women strippers young and old, open up and reveal more than their skin : an immersion in the intimate world of the theaters’ backstage where they perform, an observation of a melancholic and sensual universe, before it disappears.
