Dance Shorts I(CCDC)

Four shorts that stretch your imagination by transcending the boundary beyond age, location, and time and space.

Movie Name: The Golds
Langauge: English(Chinese Subtitle)
Duration: 34 Mins
Director: Sue Healey
Story: The Golds are a group of retired Canberrans, between 60 and 90 years of age. After a diversity of careers, they now live to dance. Their bodies may be ageing but they are abound with energy. And what’s most important in their golden years is dancing together and the desire to keep learning. They insist on contemporary dance training and regularly perform in Canberra’s cultural institutions. They have also taken their work abroad to the UK and Europe. The film smashes the stereotype that dance is only for the young and fit, showcasing the intelligence and insight that age can bring to the artform. The Golds dance up a storm with passion, humour and grace.

Movie Name: Songs Of The Underworld
Langauge: -
Duration: 6 Mins
Director: Nicola Hepp
Story: A bittersweet and tangible remembrance. An old man takes a walk in the nature, recollecting his good old days.

Movie Name: The Smiling Tiger
Langauge: -
Duration: 7 Mins
Director: Aaron Khek Ah Hock / Gavin Yap
Story: The neighbourhood stranger, the eccentric local hairdresser, the hard-nosed career woman… Different walks of life converge at the crossroad. When the old guard from a forgotten world meets the polite nods and politically correct smiles of a newly constructed, sanitised world.
Welcome to the grand dance of “The Smiling Tiger” – an ancient tribe of shape-shifting and time-bending guardians, tasked with maintaining the natural order of our world in these strange and uncertain times.

World Premiere

Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2016

Movie Name: This Is A Chicken Coop
Langauge: -
Duration: 21 Mins
Director: Er Gao
Story: Imagine: human beings return to their original state and conventional rules no longer applies. Imagine: human beings being objectified and the next dominating species have a completely different social system. What would the world be like? Avant-garde independent Chinese dance artist and choreographer Er Gao leads a cast of international dancers, performing in the nude in the ancient village of Huadu, to present an absurd scene born out of the irony of force-fed education and twisted social awareness.

World Premiere

Jumping Frames Commissioned Work 2016
* With Post-screening Discussion