10 Years of Portland Dance Film Festival – Still Moving
- Sun, Oct 4
Run Time: 70 min.
TICKETS $15
Doors 3:30 p.m.; Event 4 p.m.
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THE EXPERIENCE
As we reflect on a decade of PDFF, it felt especially meaningful to share their documentary, Still Moving: Dancing Across A Lifetime. The film invites us to think about what it means to keep moving, creating, and dancing as our bodies and lives change.
When Suzanne Chi turned 40 during the pandemic, she was forced to confront the question all professional dancers eventually face: should I be done dancing? This feature documentary follows Suzanne and her castmates—five dancers aged 42-65— s they rehearse and perform a new evening-length choreography. In navigating the challenges of aging in an industry that valorizes youth, these dancers offer their own perspectives on how and why they are still moving.
Following the film there will be a panel discussion.
ON SCREEN: Still Moving
Still Moving | Directed by Suzanne Chi, Carla Mann, & Robert Uelin | 39:27 | – This documentary follows Suzanne and her castmates—five dancers aged 42-65 — as they rehearse and perform a new evening-length choreography. In navigating the challenges of aging in an industry that valorizes youth, these dancers offer their own perspectives on how and why they are still moving.
ON STAGE: Suzanne Chi, Professor Carla Mann, Rober Uehlin
Suzanne Chi is a dancer, producer and curator living in Portland, OR. Performing has taken her around the United States, and to Bulgaria and Germany. She has had the pleasure of working with many Portland based artists and choreographers, and co-directs Muddy Feet Dance with Rachel Slater. Together, Muddy Feet’s award winning dance films have been screened all across the world.
Professor Carla Mann has been a member of the dance faculty since 1995, teaching beginning through advanced levels of contemporary technique, choreography, improvisation, dance cultural studies and special projects. Her choreographic work includes dance for stage, alternative sites, installation and video. Mann has performed with Oslund+Co/Dance, tEEth, Bonnie Merrill and Minh Tran & Company among others. Mann was awarded a 2015 Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship and was recently profiled in Stance on Dance. During her 2015-16 sabbatical, Mann will serve as Associate Artistic Director of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre/Northwest and undertake a new choreographic commission for the Northwest Dance Project.
Robert Uehlin is a filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon specializing in the translation of contemporary choreography into the language of film. His work has been screened at the American Dance Festival, The Utah International Screendance Festival, The Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, and across the United States. In 2018, he was selected to receive the inaugural Oregon Dance Film Commission and, the following year, he was named the Hinge Alumni Artist in Residence in West-Central, Minnesota. He has adjudicated for the Portland Dance Film Festival and he is the resident curator of the annual DanceBARN Screendance Festival.
Note: We do not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, and films exhibited don’t necessarily reflect the views of PAM CUT, the Tomorrow Theater, or the Portland Art Museum. In addition to the synopses, trailers and other links on our website, further information about content and age-appropriateness for specific films can be found on sites like Common Sense Media, IMDb and DoesTheDogDie.com.