Event

Crafting an Echo @ 2019 SLIFF

When the Martha Graham Dance Company commissions famed choreographer Andonis Foniadakis to create a new piece, his fluid, improvisational style collides with Grahams traditional structure, and conflict ensues. An impossibly tight production schedule, injuries, and artistic temperaments only add to the tension. Crafting an Echo directed by Marco Williams (Banished, Tell Them We Are Rising), winner of SLIFFs 2017 Contemporary Cinema Award takes the audience behind the scenes to experience firsthand the challenges of the creative process and the beauty of dance. The film bears witness to the behind-the-scenes drama that unfolds before anyone takes the stage: the dancers struggle with a different movement, the choreographers frustration when an injury requires a new performer, and the pressure that builds during rehearsals as Adonis continues to make changes and relentlessly push his dancers. Will the show actually go on?

With director Williams and Kirven Douthit-Boyd, Co-Artistic Director of Dance at COCA