Dance for the Camera Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Billy Boys

  Contemporary dance performance featuring both Protestants and Catholics from Northern Ireland

• Birds

  Contemporary dance created using a montage of film clips and music, choreographed by Yolande Snaith. Part of bird week

• Bloody Mess

  Contemporary dance performance based on mythical scenes from the film world, intended to provoke questions about the violent imagery seen in modern cinema

• Dance on Film
• Dansblik
• Enclosed

  Enclosed, choreographed by Ed Wubbe and filmed on location in Rotterdam. Featuring an engineer playing a lifting bridge like a giant percussion instrument. Part of Dance Week

• Exit

  Choreographer Jamie Watton and film-maker Clara van Gool join forces to present Exit, a piece exploring the atmosphere of the Greenwich foot tunnel, a pedestrian passageway beneath the Thames which provided shelter to Londoners during the Blitz

• Fountain

  Performers Miriam King, Rene Sakula, China Delius and Nick Herrett join forces with composer Graeme Miller to present Fountain, a dance piece which explores the many attractions of an ornamental water feature

• Greenman

  Choreographer Rosemary Lee and film-maker Peter Anderson join forces once more to present Greenman, a compelling solo piece exploring the relationship between a recluse and his environment. Danced by Simon Whitehead

• Horizone

  Contemporary dance piece following the emergence of an enigmatic creature from the harsh wastes of a desert landscape as it attempts to adapt to its surroundings. Performed by Deborah Bull, Wayne McGregor and Edward Watson

• I Want You, Not the Money
• The Lift
• The Linesman

  Contemporary dance piece. On the sidelines of a football match, a linesman becomes entranced by the movements of the players, mimicking them as they tackle and weave

• The Lost Dances of Egon Schiele

  Contemporary dance group The Featherstonehaughs perform routines inspired by intense images and characters portrayed in Egon Schiele's drawings and paintings

• Men of Good Fortune

  Two young men hit the town on a quest to find excitement before returning to prison the next day

• Motion Control

  Surreal short set in a bedroom at 4am about a camera and a performer : which one is really in control?

• Pull

  Contemporary dance based on the changing ideals of health and fitness

• Resistor

  A meditation on the balance of power within relationships

• Rest in Peace

  Rest in Peace, a contemporary dance about four grown-up children burying their mother and father. After the funeral a flurry of anarchic behaviour begins

• The Reunion

  Film-maker Jayne Parker and choreographer Ian Spink join forces to present The Reunion, an exploration of the emotional turmoil experienced as a former couple attempt to get reacquainted. Danced by Lynne Seymour and Donald MacLeary

• A Shepherd's Calendar

  A re-working of the fertility, birth and death ritual of traditional Morris dance, filmed in Shropshire

• The Snowball Effect

  Dance exploring the dynamic possibilities of the human figure in motion, performed by Christine Devaney, James Hewison, TC Howard, Lea Parkinson and Marcia Pook

• Tattoo

  The band and soldiers of the Light Division perform a piece based on marching rituals and military drill, set to music composed by Graeme Miller and staged in the desolate landscape of Salisbury Plain

• To a Women's Heart

  Film looking at the relationships between men and women. A three-course seduction comes to a sticky end in To a Woman's Heart

• The World Turned Upside Down

  John White's depiction of a strange world where the unexpected happens : trains run on time and everyone suffers from a sense of mild anxiety. Performed by Anthony Howell and Lorna Stewart

• Your Dark Eyes

  Themed contemporary dance, choreographed by Wolke Klupell, about a woman approaching the end of her life who hears a forgotten song that brings back memories of lost love. Part of Dance Week