Canada
2019
35'
Summary
A physical experience of vertigo and transcendence, produced by the circular motion of falling bodies subject to gravity. Production : Microclimat Films
Galerie
Dana Gingras
Director
Dana Gingras is a choreographer,filmmaker, performer and teacher. She co-founded The
Holy Body Tattoo (1993),and then with Animals of Distinction (2007), earning numerous
awards and honours for its stage and film work. Her short film Chainreaction (2014), a
Microclimat Films production, world premiered at TIFF. In 2016, monumental (2005), this
expanded version of the piece with Godspeed You! Black Emperor playing live, has been
performed at the Adelaide Festival, Montreal’s Place des Arts, Grand Théâtre de Quebec, as
part of Luminato Festival at The Hearn Generating Station in Toronto, the Edinburgh
International Festival, BAM’s NEXT WAVE Festival, the ROMAEUROPA Festival in Italy,
MONA FOMA in Tasmania, Australia and most recently at The Barbican Centre in London.
In 2017 Dana Gingras/Animals of Distinction was granted the long term residency at the
CCOV (Centre de Création O Vertigo) at Montreal’s Place des Arts and through this will
produce new large scale work entitled Frontera which will premiere November 2019.