January 23, PAMM, 2:00pm

• Pas, 2013, 3:01, Champaign, IL
Directors & Choreographers, Charli Brissey & Courtney Harris
Pas, a satirical parody extends upon ballet's tendency to embody animal qualities. Subverting Western ideology of grace and beauty, Brissey and Harris incorporate untraditional and comedic imagery while destabilizing ballet's heteronormative structure through queer suggestion.

• Klasse, 2015, 9:04, Tallahassee, FL
VOTED #1 ScreenDance Miami 2016 People's Choice Award
Director Malia Bruker, Choreographer Hannah Schwadron
Klasse tracks back to Jewish Hamburg at the height of WWII as children escape one by one on the Kindertransport. The preserved classroom from 1938 emphasizes the haunting fixity of place, while a cast of German students reimagines the courageous spirit of children with uncertain futures, both then and now.

• Snags in Palladio, 2015, 6:03, Verona, Italy
Director Michele Manzini, Choreographer Barbara Canal
In the modern era, the concept of beauty reappears as an idea that makes differences visible without destroying them. It is at this point that the enigma of beauty is unveiled, revealing its complex, paradoxical and contradictory nature.

• Black Carriage/White Heart, 2015, 13:22, Miami, FL
Directors Christina Pettersson, Christin Paige Minnotte, Marissa Alma Nick, Choreographer Marissa Alma Nick
Black Carriage/White Heart is a screendance about death, ceremony and resolution. It is a meditation on the inscrutable weight that accompanies loss.

• Vindinòs, 2015, 10:42, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Director Maria Joana Alves Laranjeira, Choreographer Maria Joana Alves Laranjeira
Telling a tale by lending it a new meaning through the experience of the three bodies, their souls and spirits who dance A Vindima (The Harvest). Touch. Taste. Smell. Observe. Listen… Feel. Journey… Memories turned on. Memories rebuilt. Harvested wine.

• Ella, 2015, 15:02, Miami, FL
Directors Carla Forte & Alexey Taran, Choreographer Heather Maloney
Ella is a forty-one week, two-day study of the body – the making of a heartbeat.

January 23, Mindy Solomon Gallery, 7:00 & 9:00pm (identical programs)

• TWITCH, 2015, 5 minutes, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Director Jules de Niverville, Choreographer Michael Watts
TWITCH is a five-minute experimental performance video incorporating contemporary dance, contortion and acrobatics. It chronicles the life-pulse of a creature in conflict, its stirrings, twitching, and convulsions, its agonizing missteps and battle with demons. It's an ode to overcoming dark energies that lie within the embodiment of conflicting energy.

• Helena, 2015, 3:50, Los Angeles, CA
Director and Choreographer Nadav Heyman
Solo performance in the wake of a stream of consciousness. "Sleep is not democracy and it is not a mantra. It is neither plastic nor glass. It cannot break. It cannot burn. It cannot pollute. Sleep is salty and at times sweet."

• When the Time Is Right, 2015, 5:58, Tallahassee, FL
Director Jennifer Petuch, Choreographers Jennifer Petuch and Ircamar Garcia
Reflecting nature we witness profound life-change through personal metamorphosis. When the Time Is Right captures the transformational moment of an individual breaking free from her past into something beautiful and passionate.

• Plow Plant Reap, 2015, 13:02, New York, NY
Director and Choreographer Marta Renzi
An all-female community comes together, joins in a baptism and a roundelay against a majestic landscape of rolling farmland. Shot at the historic Miller Farm and danced by eleven members of the Slippery Rock University dance department.

• Whitespace Bodyspace, 2014, 4:23, Miami, FL
Director and Choreographer Ariel Baron-Robbins
This is a site-specific piece developed for an art space called Whitespace in West Palm Beach. The filmmaker visited the site and made a series of body-interventions in the landscape.

• Migration, 2015, 5:50, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Director Marlene Millar, Choreographer Sandy Silva
On an island in the Saint Lawrence Seaway, preparation for a migratory journey is expressed through percussive movement and vocals set within an unusual natural landscape.

• A dia de hoy…, 2015, 6:45, Miami, FL
Director and Choreographer Niurca Marquez
This is a journey of the unfleshed mover and the moved, a picture of the echoes that remain in spaces long after we depart; evidence of lives lived in earnest.

• All Waters, 2015, 7:03, Miami, FL
Director and Choreographer Julien Valme
"I feel you… your abundant presence and never ending grace. It is only in the stillness that you are with me. It is only in the darkness that I see you in the deepest part of my heart. There I find you. Yet with eyes wide open I lose you."

• On the Other Side of the Lake, 2015, 6:10, Hollywood, FL
Director and Choreographer Jenny Larsson
On the Other Side of the Lake is an experimental short film where the main character is the lake – a body of water that connects memories, emotions and experiences. The lake becomes a catalyst for communal storytelling as well as a physical journey into the water.

• Klasse, 2015, 9:04, Tallahassee, FL
VOTED #1 ScreenDance Miami 2016 People's Choice Award
Director Malia Bruker, Choreographer Hannah Schwadron
Klasse tracks back to Jewish Hamburg at the height of WWII as children escape one by one on the Kindertransport. The preserved classroom from 1938 emphasizes the haunting fixity of place, while a cast of German students reimagines the courageous spirit of children with uncertain futures, both then and now.

WORKSHOPS, January 23, PAMM, 3rd floor James L. Knight Education Center, 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami

• 10:30am - 1:30pm
Creative Process: From Brain to Body to Screen
Writer/director /producer/choreographer – Gabri Christa

Read the preview of this workshop in the Miami New Times

In this workshop you will discover your way of screenwriting, story boarding and visualizing for your next dance film. Where do you start - write, sketch, film, storyboard, create a look?. We will tackle several methods. Come with an idea in mind and a small camera (photo or film), glue, big sketchbook, pencils, color and paper. Be ready to dance, film and express in anyway that fits your current need.
All levels welcome.

• 3:15pm - 4:15pm
NOTE that Martine Dekker's Cinedans Amsterdam: A Case Scenario workshop has been cancelled. Dekker, Director of Cinedans, Amsterdam's dance on screen festival, has had to cancel due to illness.
Instead, a group discussion about dance for camera will be held by Tigertail ScreenDance Miami 2016 director Marissa Alma Nick.

• 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Legalities with Marlon Hill: Legal advice for Choreographers and Directors
Hamilton, Miller & Birthisel – Marlon A. Hill
This popular essential workshop returns again this year. Marlon Hill will help put your legal questions to rest. As a partner at Hamilton Miller Law, Marlon Hill has an extensive background on how to prevent infringement, plagiarism, copywriting and everything else you need to know to protect you and your work. Bring your questions.