- single-channel video with sound, 8 minutes.
No Show, Carriageworks 2021, Photo by Zan Wimberley
Commissioned by Firstdraft
Sparked by a basketball documentary in a climate full of protests, riots and community organising, Strategic Choreographies is a short film exploring the use of choreographies with strategic intentions outside of the context of dance.
It uses basketball as a medium to investigate how the corporeal can be used in relation to changing structuring of power and the role physicality plays for individual agency and sociality.
Director: Leo Tsao
Editor: Leo Tsao
Choreographer: Leo Tsao
Production: Firstdraft
Motel Picture Company
Performers:
Isaac Bradley
Michael Francisco
Taiga Kita-Leong
Feras Shaheen
Maria Wang
Wendy Yu
Costume Designer: Leila El Rayes
Sound Designer: Del Lumanta
-2021 Dance (Lens): Live Screening, Dance house, Melbourne, Australia
-2021 Good Sport Short Film Night, Good Sport Magazine, Melbourne, Australia
-2021 No Show, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
-2021 Close Contact, Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia
Read an interview about the work here.
No Show, Carriageworks 2021, Photo by Zan Wimberley
Strategic Choreographies
Commissioned by Firstdraft
Sparked by a basketball documentary in a climate full of protests, riots and community organising, Strategic Choreographies is a short film exploring the use of choreographies with strategic intentions outside of the context of dance.
It uses basketball as a medium to investigate how the corporeal can be used in relation to changing structuring of power and the role physicality plays for individual agency and sociality.
Director: Leo Tsao
Editor: Leo Tsao
Choreographer: Leo Tsao
Production: Firstdraft
Motel Picture Company
Performers:
Isaac Bradley
Michael Francisco
Taiga Kita-Leong
Feras Shaheen
Maria Wang
Wendy Yu
Costume Designer: Leila El Rayes
Sound Designer: Del Lumanta
-2021 Dance (Lens): Live Screening, Dance house, Melbourne, Australia
-2021 Good Sport Short Film Night, Good Sport Magazine, Melbourne, Australia
-2021 No Show, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
-2021 Close Contact, Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia
Read an interview about the work here.