At the Exeter Dance International FIlm Festival, Polish Dance Theater's choreographic film project directed by Iwona Pasinska triumphed in 3 categories - "Festival Film," "Best Idea" and "Choreography." It received honorable mentions in the "Best Costume" and "General Category" categories, bringing the production's total to an unprecedented number of as many as 5 awards in a single festival.
This is another significant achievement for "Greensboro" in the UK. On October 12 of this year, the project was presented as part of the London International Screen Dance Festival, in the theater hall of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, one of the most prestigious and recognizable music and dance conservatoires in the world. In the UK, it was screened for audiences at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York, UK, November 1-6, 2022) and the Leeds International Film Festival (November 3-17, 2022). It has also been published - along with 5 other PTT film productions - on the UK streaming platform SVOD The Arts Channel, which features performances and documentaries selected by the curators with UK audiences in mind.
This is just a small slice of the already long success story of "The Herbarium," which premiered in 2022. The awards given in Exeter are the 17th, 18th and 19th on the project's list of accolades worldwide. "The Herbarium" was recognized in Jakarta (Indonesia), San Cristóbal (Venezuela), Queensland (Australia), Beirut (Lebanon), Salt Lake City (USA), Quebec and Toronto (Canada), among others. It also received as many as 4 Audience Awards - mna International Choreographic Festival in Blois (2022, France), Portland Dance Film Fest (2022, USA), Classical Arts Film Festival in Napa (2022, USA) and Moving Body Festival in Varna (2022, Bulgaria).
.Recall that Polish Dance Theater's fifth choreographic film project, "Herbarium," directed by Iwona Pasinska, leads the audience into the world of flora. The fairy-tale episode, sprinkled with Bergson's élan vital, allows us to explore a day in the life of plants from awakening through bloom to a warmly nostalgic end. It is a remarkable example of a "moving image" inseparably integrated with music. The dancers give the impression as if they were floating above a painterly canvas, with their sliding movements drawing micro-stories of love on the plane. Emanating warmth, the film image, masterfully handling changes of mood, invites one to immerse oneself in the beautiful world of flowers and leaves, suggesting a non-obvious analogy between the life cycle of plants and humans.
"I watched the choreography in its entirety, three times in a row, and throughout this time the thought never left me that this is what beauty is all about.(...) "Herbarium" has something of the power of the divine Flora in it. It's a beautiful, optimistic, positively oriented, nostalgically colorful, joyful, at times witty, operating mood changes, brilliantly choreographed film. And a perfect example of Floor Work. Please don't delay and watch this film as soon as possible." - wrote editor Joanna Brych on dance.blog.politics.pl.
.List of winners of Exeter Dance International Film Festival
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