Collaborate

Collaborate=Community

Creating a space for the power of procession as a carrier of stories
—
in collaboration with, and being inspired by, each other.

Migration Dance Film Project has a history of building community connections within our films and this approach continues in a new performance community-making model: Procession — Creative. We work with regional arts organizations across the globe who foster arts practice to define and collaborate on a shared project vision. As a collective project, it allows communities to explore a communal processional journey using body & vocal percussion.

a snap is not just a snap.
a clap is not just a clap.

these sounds are not just sounds
—
they’re a pathway opening
to a world of discovery

Step 1
→ workshops

Step 1 → Processional journeys

Percussive arts

Movers

Vocalists

Seekers

Walking    
brings→
→→→us    
back to
→→→ us.   
→→→→→   

→→→Take
→hold.→   

Migration Dance Film Project creators work with communities in structured movement workshops using body and vocal percussion as a conduit to exploring individual or communal processions. These conceptual works include movement artists, vocalists, and dancers of different levels of experience or interest, exploring through personal and collective reflections, thematics, and landscapes of significance — a thoughtful gestural percussive imprint through vast open spaces, and within and between each other. Together, we storyshift and storyshape culturally-integrated body music through the power of processional journeys, motivated by what we have left behind and what we carry forward.

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Step 2
→ co-creation

Step 2 → co-production

Every Step
Sings.

Community connections are foundational to MDFP’s continuum of screendance films. New collaborations can evolve into creatively collaborating to co-create + co-produce a new filmic work. As partners, we work with arts and cultural organizations at local, national and international levels to conceive ideas, discover meaningful and breathtaking landscapes, reveal the poetry of spaces, delve into socially-culturally relevant themes, and together, define a shared project vision. We work with established organizations on key decision-making: mounting the financing model, its artistic trajectory, and all the nuanced steps in-between to co-create a new film to its full potential.

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“…Over the course of four weeks [ Sandy Silva ] worked with young actors on the use of their voices, challenged professional dancers with body percussion and rhythms, shared songs with recent immigrants, and processed through city and county parks with a wide array of community members. Her artistry engages the body, mind, and spirit.”

— Dana Kassel, Program Director,
McKnight Choreography Fellowship

“The creative practice that Millar and Silva have been developing and expanding through their long collaboration shape an embodied ritual of place-making, remembering, and community building that informed their recent PROCESSION — CREATIVE workshops in Italy. Participants were fully engaged in a body & vocal practice that was approached with openness and fueled further curiosity for body percussion and the hybrid art form of dancefilm.”

— Ariadne Mikou, Curator of (DIS)playing Memory, screendance event between Ca’ Foscari University, Venice and Centro per la Scene Contemporanea, Bassano del Grappa (Italy)

“Sandy Silva’s workshop was an enriching and unique experience for ZED’s audience, and it was a real pleasure to work with the whole team behind MDFP; Sandy passed on to us the meaning of a personal and powerful research, opening for us the vision at the core of Marlene and Sandy’s films.”

— Fabrizio Molducci, Co-organizer – ZED Festival of Videodance, per Compagnia della Quarta

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