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ONE DAY DANCE

Our main project each season is our dance film series. One Day Dance creates a platform for choreographers to experiment and create new work on film. The only restriction is that each choreographer only gets 24 Hours to create their work. This includes rehearsing, filming, and editing. It is certainly a challenge but these choreographers were up to the task. Enjoy these films and discover what is possible to build in a day!

THORN

Season 

4

Episode 

1

I’m going to protect you without anything in return. What are other structures whose only role is to protect something, existing to care?

Choreographed by
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Catherine Messina
Pink Oyster Mushrooms

Hato po ppo

Season 

4

Episode 

2

Hato po ppo" means "pigeon" in Japanese, and the song used in this piece is a Japanese song with a pigeon theme. The idea for this piece came to me one day when I saw a pigeon sitting on a subway seat then getting off at the next station. Did that pigeon go to home? work? Or a party? If you look closely, the movement of a pigeon is comical, the sight of it spreading it's wings taking flight is beautiful.
Do you see what I see?

Choreographed by
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Misaki Hayama
Pink Oyster Mushrooms

The Art of Elegance, Vol. 1

Season 

4

Episode 

3

Elegance can be viewed in many forms. The lens in which we view elegance varies from person to person. Volume 1 of The Art of Elegance is a visual depiction of how I view said subject through one of my many lenses.

Choreographed by
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Imani Gaudin
Pink Oyster Mushrooms

Verve

Season 

4

Episode 

4

Verve is loosely based on the movie Tron and the different types of animation they used in the film - computer animation, live action & backlit animation.

Choreographed by
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Rebecca Allen
Pink Oyster Mushrooms

DOUBLE BIND

Season 

4

Episode 

5

Double Bind: when does supporting each other allow us to rise and when does it drag us down? Are we our authentic selves or are we how society told us to be? A dance film that navigates those questions translating women's voices into movements delivering a shared message of sisterhood, human connections and social conflict.

Choreographed by
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sarAika Movement Collective
Pink Oyster Mushrooms

Run

Season 

4

Episode 

6

Who will reach the finish line first?

Choreographed by
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Robert Mark Burke
Pink Oyster Mushrooms

The Society

Season 

4

Episode 

7

An individual is an individual.
Others are others.
However, when an individual shares the same space with others, their individuality becomes more colorful, something changes, and generates a stronger energy.

Choreographed by
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Mayu Nakaya
Pink Oyster Mushrooms

transient

Season 

4

Episode 

8

The fleeting energy exchanges shared between people everyday without notice.

Choreographed by
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Gable Couch
Pink Oyster Mushrooms

The Horsemen

Season 

4

Episode 

9

All that begins must end. We will see to it.

Choreographed by
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Joseph Heitman
Pink Oyster Mushrooms
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