Shut up and Listen

Screendance (2021)

Teaser

Concept, Direction, Choreography, Performance, Video Editing

Screenings

Moving Body Festival 2022

29.10.2022 | Festival and Congress Centre | Varna | Bulgaria

Official Selection – Moovy Tanzfilmfestival 2022

24.04.2022 | Filmforum im Museum Ludwig | Cologne | Germany

Beamed Open air film festival 2022

01.07 → 04-11.2022 | Brotfabrik Bonn, Tanzfaktur, Stromwerk, Trafostation, Dansarts |
Bonn, Cologne, Manheim, Münster, Bielefeld | Germany

Positionen 022 | Hybrid Formats

02.04.2022 | ART SPACE stift millstatt | Millstatt | Austria

Description

This video-dance emphasizes a universal need of all human beings: the need to be heard. Two people engage in a dialog in words and dance.
When we are in pain, the mere fact that another person is listening with empathy can make a difference. If we don’t get that kind of listening, we both end up in more pain than before. How can we use our bodies in order to expand our ability to listen to one another? In what ways can physical movement convey what we wish to express? How can movement help to underline the dynamics of a dialog taking place and show our need for connection and mutual support?
This video is a result of a research on how certain themes of verbal communication, based on Non-violent Communication (NVC) principles, can be translated into physical movements of Contact Improvisation.

Credits

Direction & Choreography
Maayan Reiter

Dance
Roni Sagi
Maayan Reiter

Text & Voiceover
Roni Sagi
Maayan Reiter

Editing
Maayan Reiter

Köln International School of Design – KISD Integrated Design
Image and Motion department Supervised by Prof. Nina Juric

2021

Funded by Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW) as an artist grant within the framework of the NRW Corona aid

Behind the Process

Publication: States of Motion – The Motion Experience Lab 2019-2022