Dance Heals

An ongoing series of self-discovery and healing through dance.

In Dance Heals, discover how screendance unleashes new possibilities for fluid self-expression. Moving through sexuality, family relations, and difficult pasts, these eight documentary-focused shorts bravely explore how dance can be a medium for asserting identity and healing the wounds of the past.

Co-Presenter: Amy Seiwert’s Imagery

Program Info

Runtime: 64 minutes

October 15 - October 24

Venue: Streaming on Marquee TV

$8.99 / $45 (shorts pass) / $50 (festival pass)

Program Films

What The Body Holds

What the Body Holds was created by Imagery artistic fellow Ben Needham-Wood in collaboration with filmmaker Matthew McKee

Matthew McKee

Ben Needham-Wood

Contemporary

Made Of Everything

Made of Everything combines dance and documentary to explore the combined experiences of three sisters as they reflect on their individual perspectives on death, grief, and connection, five years after losing their mother to breast cancer

Lucy Doherty

Contemporary

Still, Here I Am

What does time feel like when you face your own mortality? This is the question that spurred the creation of Still, Here I Am

Jessica Law

Matthew 'ET' Gibbs

Hip-Hop/Street

Exufrida

A compeitive gymnast recovers from a catastrophic accident

Cícero Fraga

Beatrice Martins, Raquel Karro

Contemporary

Dancer Amit Patel is Reinventing Bollywo...

Dancer, choreographer and Youtuber Amit Patel reinvents Bollywood dance, while also creating space for queer expression in the South Asian community and beyond

Charlotte Buchen Khadra

Amit Patel

Bolllywood

Fading Back In

Starring celebrated up-and-coming dancer Sam Szabo, Fading Back In is a tone poem about the moment when you chose to move forward in the face of depression.

Lauren Greenhall

Sam Szabo

Contemporary