scene r-eco-ver is a multimedia love letter to California.
A new choreographic film interpreting the climate catastrophes of Northern California resulting from linear, human processes that override cyclical, natural processes.
Premiering at World Stage Design
August 15, 2022 • Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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A devised, feature-length film for 4 dancers in an evolving landscape of paper and projection.
How do we juggle the eco-scenographic paradox of existing in an age of deforestation, combustion, and erosion that longs for renewal and relief?
• choreographic anthropo-scene •
Meet the Collaborators
MAXINE FLASHER-DÜZGÜNEŞ
CHOREOGRAPHER
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş is a hybrid artist & poet from Northern California currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was recently awarded the Alternate position for the US-UK Fulbright Award in Dance. She is a writer for Dance Art Journal (UK), a teaching artist for Big Sky Workshop (NY), as well as a future Djerassi Resident Artist and producer of Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival (CA). Her dance films have been screened worldwide at kNOwBOX Dance Film Festival (USA/South Korea), SzólóDuó International Dance Festival (Hungary), West Wave Dance Festival (USA), and Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (USA). She graduated Magna Cum Laude from NYU Tisch with a B.F.A. in Dance, and earned an M.A. in Dance Philosophy & History at the University of Roehampton London. Awards: First Place in Choreography | Dance Prix de New York (2019), and Rubin Prize for Poetry (2020).
HAMILTON GUILLÉN
ART DIRECTOR
Hamilton Guillén is a multidisciplinary designer and creative director from California working in film and live performance. His process integrates a holistic approach — synthesizing visual research, dramaturgy, politics, and pop culture. Recent credits include: Projection Designer for Mud & Springtime (Colm Summers, Lenfest Center for the Arts, NYC); Lighting Designer for Call Me By Any Other Name (Nigel Semaj, Muhlenberg College, PA); Production Designer for narrative short films Married to the Bag (Zane Bhansali, NY) and Parent Trip (Leah Chen Baker, VT). Upcoming: Art Director for Rose: You Are Who You Eat by John Jarboe — a Guggenheim Museum ‘Works & Process’ commissioned artist residency co-sponsored by the Bethany Arts Community (NY). He studied performance design at the University of Leeds (UK) and UC Berkeley before earning his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
SUNHI WILLA KELLER
DANCER
Sunhi Willa Keller was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai'i, surrounded by two wonderful parents, a brilliant big sister, and many, many feisty dogs. After graduating from Punahou School with a love of humanities, art, and dance, she traveled to New York City to further her dance education. In spring of 2021, she graduated from New York University with a BFA in Dance and a BA in Art History. She is currently earning her MA at London Contemporary Dance School. As an emerging choreographer and maker, she uses humor, curiosity, and her perspective as a part-Korean American woman to broaden the contemporary dance canon. She focuses on inclusive work through collaboration.
LAURYN PINARD
DANCER
Lauryn Pinard is a theatre and dance artist currently working as an access support worker to Rosie Heafford at Second Hand Dance, a disabled-led dance company creating bold, accessible and sensory dance experiences for children and adults, and independent choreographer Sivan Rubinstein. She also assists Producer Lia Pentraki in her work. She is a Rambert Grades teacher, as well as a performer involved in works such as the Becoming-Animaldance film series by Emilia Robinson and Sidonie Carey-Green, Womanewer R&D by Laura Kenyon and Living in Black Skins by Renee Landell. She studied Dance and Drama at Royal Holloway University where she graduated with a First-Class in 2020 and was nominated for the 2020 Black Impact Academic Excellence award.
GIADA PALMISANO
DANCER
Giada Palmisano has attended professional dance formations with several companies, including: Hofesh, Batsheva, Rambert, Tavaziva. While in Berlin she met the choreographer Alessio Trevisani who invited her to join his company in Leipzig, Germany. She attended the dance journey program with Kibbutz Dance Company in Israel where she worked with Olga Stetsyu before moving to China to study kung fu shaolin with Shifu Shi Yan Jun. She won a scholarship to Vivo Ballet in Rome with Enzo Celli; and that same year she danced with his company, bringing “Fragile” at Quinzena de dança de Almada in Portugal. She is currently studying a Dance Practice and Performance Postgraduate at University of Roehampton, London.
AIMEE GWYNNE
VIDEOGRAPHER
Aimee Gwynne is a videographer and embodiment practitioner with a focus on dance videography. She is originally from the USA where she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BFA in Dance Choreography and Performance. She then moved to South Carolina where she performed with Annex Dance Company. During her time with Annex, she performed, taught, and choreographed dance with communities all along the East Coast. Aimee was also the manager of the largest studio in her city, Dance Moves of Charleston. She now lives in London where she is pursuing her MFA in Dance and Embodied Practice from the University of Roehampton.
CAMILLA DELY
COSTUME DESIGNER
Camilla Dely is a costume designer and visual artist born and raised in South Africa, currently working in New York City. She is equally fueled by poetic texts and devised processes, and is drawn to stories that concern the limits of our humanity, questions of violence and justice, and the stunning messiness of human beings. She received her B.A. in Theater from Bryn Mawr College, her M.F.A. in Design for Stage and Film from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and was a 2015-16 Watson Fellowship Recipient. She was a core company member at the Orchard Project in Hunter, NY, and is an alum of Headlong Performance Institute in Philadelphia, PA.
JADE LIEN
ANIMATION DESIGNER
Originally from Taiwan, Jade Lien is a cross-disciplinary artist experimenting with different mediums including film, photography, writing, and digital art with the goal of finding new visuals and ideas in an era when even "originality is dead" has long been an olden phrase. Poetry is the basis of her work, and technology is the tool she uses to create. Through them, she seeks to discover original perspectives hidden and thriving in the "blind-spots" of our world.
MICHAEL WALL
COMPOSER
Michael Wall is an internationally recognized composer, performer, and educator who collaborates with dancers, choreographers, and filmmakers around the world. He composes original music, accompanies dance classes, and teaches sound design for dance and performance with Ableton Live. Michael has worked at Rutgers University, Princeton University, NYU, The Ohio State University, The Bates Dance Festival, The American Dance Festival, and The University of Utah, School of Dance. He continues to support independent artists in digital music distribution and offers a comprehensive online library of music for dance students, teachers, and choreographers.
FABIANO DO NASCIMENTO
MUSICIAN
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Fabiano do Nascimento studied classical piano and music theory as a young boy. From the time he played his first notes on the guitar at age ten, he devoted himself to that instrument. Fabiano was born into a musical family, a lineage that goes back to his great-grand-father “Ladario Teixeira” who was a Blind virtuoso saxophone player, and who contributed to the evolution of the instrument itself, adding more keys to the older “Aldolph Sax” version. Fabiano is known for his stunning Solo guitar performances on multi-string guitars and unique compositions, under Now again Records.
SUZANNE SZTURC
COLORIST
Suzanne is a filmmaker and Photographer based in London. Bringing years of experience in the performing arts to filmmaking and photography. Fascinated by human body, physicality and emotionality. Combining love for experimental filmmaking with a passion for storytelling. Co-writer and DOP on 'Change of Hearts' (2021), Director and producer of experimental trilogy Container (2020), Vessel (2021) and Form (2022). Director and founder of ExPosed Images
Workshop Performance
Michaelis Building
University of Roehampton London
England, United Kingdom
Sunday, May 29
Live Performance
Run Time: 60 minutes (no intermission)
World Premiere
this week!
University Theatre
University of Calgary
Alberta, Canada
Saturday, August 6 — Tuesday, August 16
Screendance Feature Film
Run Time: 60 minutes
Event Partners
Fiscal Sponsor
Marin Poetry Center has graciously partnered with our dance collective. We sincerely thank them for their support and guidance.