Shadow in Motion: Easter Dance Week

We’ll be back once again at Easter Dance Week in Fafe. Organized by Escola de Bailado de Fafe, Easter Dance Week is an annual event that promotes experiencing the world through dance.

On the 30th of March, at 9:30PM, we’ll present a selection of films from previous editions of InShadow, followed by a discussion with the audience. Before the screening, Pedro Sena Nunes will lead a videodance workshop where participants will be invited to deconstruct and reinterpret movement through the camera, reflecting on how the body feels, touches, and interacts with the world. The selection of videodance films and the workshop content are based on the theme of Easter Dance Week 2026: Body, Property, and World.

Screened films:

Playing with Fire, by Maor Alteras (IL) 4'

It reimagines Yankalle Filtser’s choreography Rafsoda through a cinematic lens. Filmed between days of remembrance and celebration, it reflects on the fragile space between grief and renewal. Blending rehearsal and performance, the piece seeks healing through movement, unity, and quiet resilience.

Blue Funk, by Louise Coetzer (ZA) 13' 

It charts the physicality of being afraid. As chain reaction, fear settles over its targets, exposing their innate sentient responses of freeze, fight, fawn, and flight. The resulting cacophony evokes the volatility of this moment in time, a mounting pressure edging towards its breaking point.

Preface, by Madeleine Månsson (SE) 8'

Signs, dance and hands. This film is a love story of a man that lets his hands talk when there is something to be said, something that has been said and something that can't be said. The choreographer Madeleine Månsson uses her own experience as a wheelchair dancer in order to turn the perspectives in this piece about wordlessness as a language and consequence when our own feelings fails us.

One & One Other, by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern (USA) 10'

The film paints the 3am portrait of two shelf stockers at a 24/7 mega-super market, both entrenched in the banal nature of their perpetually ordinary jobs. Featuring Emilie Leriche and Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, their imaginations and companionship allow for an intellectual jailbreak from their lives, as they are transported to the retro 80s dance break of their dreams.

Whirlwind, by Doria Belanger (FR) 12'

In a deserted city thats seems to have escaped time, two solitary beings dance with the wind. From dust to dust, their encounter gives life to the elements. A physical and metaphysical tale on the origins of the wind.

Enge, by Clara Rosa Hilscher (DE) 7'

The shortfilm ENGE is about how five female read persons conduct themselves in the world of subway stations. Where the individual reality is clashing with the unwritten rules of public spaces, the individual drifts off into the inner space - a dreamland. A convergence in the equilibrium of inhaling and exhaling. Searching to let go into the nature of things. An unsophisticatedness and sensitivity of the moment, an experience of shared intimacy.

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