Discover Samantha Shay s short film ROMANCE at the Moovy Dance Film Festival, screening on March 17, 2024, in Cologne, Germany. Learn how to purchase tickets.
“Rite” enacts the ritual sacrifice of one dancer chosen from the thumping group. Once chosen, her beige dress is traded for a red one, and before her vacant-faced counterparts, she
She was the only black student in her Paris school, constantly criticised for her ‘big butt and flat feet’. But she went on to win awards worldwide, including the Venice Golden Lion. As Germaine Acogny finally hits Britain, the dancer relives her path to the top
What about stating the obvious? When there is significant institutional investment in the performing arts—i.e., France since the 1980s, with their “Centre Chorégraphique Nationaux (CCN)”1—the field radically expands, creators explore, and new dances flourish. The French Dance Reflections Festival in New York this past fall, presented by jewelry company Van Cleef & Arpels, really brought this home to me.