DANCE FILM OPEN CALL

UNTIL FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Here Is a Space

James Cousins Company

Saturday 4. Nov 2023

18:30 GMT+1

Metropolis Kino

Dance Film

United Kingdom

| Synopsis

HERE IS A SPACE
Safe space. This doesn’t always mean closed doors, soft chairs, sympathetic faces. For some of us, it will always mean big beats, meeting a stranger’s eye seconds before a drop and feeling familial like my god we could have shared a womb during the same year. It will mean walls sweating ceilings dripping fingers gun shaped and pointing, a reload making its way to the heart of the matter to our matter to what matters and what doesn’t to the pain inside which is the pain we don’t want to find ourselves faced with in a small space with a closed door, we might want magnitude, a huge cavernous roof which used to cover stored goods from an Empire that stored us up to be released, here in this city, in this space. Our safe space.

| Credits

CREATIVE DIRECTOR James Cousins
DANCERS Alethia Antonia, Jemima Brown, Tom Dunn, Georges Hann, Meshach Henry, Amy Hollinshead, Chihiro Kawasaki, Salomé Pressac, Matt Sandiford
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Luke Dryden
CO-DIRECTORS Hannes Langolf and Gareth Mole
MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN Torben Lars Sylvest and Pär Carlson
COSTUE AND SET DESIGNER Jasmin Swan
WRITER Sarina Mahfouz. VOICED BY Racheal Ofori
FEATURING Third Year BA students from London Contemporary Dance School

STEADICAM OPERATOR Lee Brown
FOCUS PULLER Nacho Guzmán
GAFFER Glen Mountford
TECHNICAL SUPPORT from Battersea Arts Centre

Concept film based on the Production : We Are As Gods premiered at Battersea Arts Centre, 6 October 2021.

PRODUCED BY Hannah Gibbs

Supported by the Genesis Foundation, Arts Council England, Maria Bjӧrnson Memorial Fund

James Cousins Company

| Website

www.jamescousinscompany.com

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| Biography

James Cousins Company create strikingly original dance experiences that connect us all through stories that matter. Our mission drives us to enrich people’s lives through dance and create bold distinctive contemporary dance. We create unforgettable experiences that inspire and entertain audiences by transporting them into unique worlds on stage, screen and beyond. Most importantly we do it with joy. After all, isn’t that what dance is about.

Founded in 2014 by James Cousins and Producer Francesca Moseley, James Cousins Company has been on 4 extensive UK tours as well as numerous international tours in Europe, South America and Asia. In 2016 our film Within Her Eyes was added to the GCSE Dance syllabus in England and in 2019 the company was nominated for Best Independent Company at the National Dance Awards. The company’s latest production We Are As Gods was a sell-out success transform the iconic Battersea Arts Centre with a 2-hour immersive spectacular.

Led by choreographer James Cousins a refreshing choreographic voice whose reflections on human interactions have astonished audiences world-wide. James has been recognised by Time Out magazine as one of the future faces of dance

| Biography

James Cousins Company create strikingly original dance experiences that connect us all through stories that matter. Our mission drives us to enrich people’s lives through dance and create bold distinctive contemporary dance. We create unforgettable experiences that inspire and entertain audiences by transporting them into unique worlds on stage, screen and beyond. Most importantly we do it with joy. After all, isn’t that what dance is about.

Founded in 2014 by James Cousins and Producer Francesca Moseley, James Cousins Company has been on 4 extensive UK tours as well as numerous international tours in Europe, South America and Asia. In 2016 our film Within Her Eyes was added to the GCSE Dance syllabus in England and in 2019 the company was nominated for Best Independent Company at the National Dance Awards. The company’s latest production We Are As Gods was a sell-out success transform the iconic Battersea Arts Centre with a 2-hour immersive spectacular.

Led by choreographer James Cousins a refreshing choreographic voice whose reflections on human interactions have astonished audiences world-wide. James has been recognised by Time Out magazine as one of the future faces of dance

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