De-eschatology

De-Eschatology is a physical manifestation of the claustrophobic conditions created by the COVID-19 crisis and the yearning to break free from them. The piece draws attention to a heightened sense of touch, which directly results from the lack of physical contact many in quarantine face. The film’s trajectory explores the gradual de-escalation of shelter-in-place orders, and its psychological effects.

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Performance History

2020

Leaning Into The Unknown by The Berrie Center at Ramapo College
*Commission Winners
Celebration of International Human Rights Day
*Representing the IHRAF/Yahad-in Unum Art of Creative Unity Award
FilmFest by Rogue Dancer - OUtBreak Edition (Virtual)
*Film of the Month Winner
Indie Short Fest
*Outstanding Achievement Award
Independent Shorts Awards
*Best Screendance Short Winner
FROSTBITE International Indie Fest
*Finalist
IndieX Film Fest
*Best Screendance Short Winner
Cinedanza Screendance Festival
*Honorable Mention
AltFF Alternative Film Festival
*Semi-Finalist
EXCHANGE Choreography Festival
Dance Place’s Dance on Film Series
DisDance Film Fest
Boston Contemporary Dance Festival
The Physical Plant Dance Shorts Watch Party (Virtual)
7MPR Second Midnight Virtual Performance
CyberTank Variety Show
The Distance Disco Project
Strangelove Festival
TANZAHOi International Dance Film Festival
KYL/D’s InHale on Camera Series
ARTS x SDGS Festival
Fall-O-Ween Film Festival at The Studio on Pope’s Island
Kinetoscope: International Screendance Festival
Yucca Valley Vilm Festival
LEEDS International Film Festival
InShadow Lisbon Screendance Festival
New York No Limits Film Series
Mostra Internacional de Dança
Anyplace Anytime Dance Film Festival by Cross Move Lab

2021

92Y Harkness Presents: The Future Dance Festival
Dance Days Chania
Ubumuntu Arts Festival
Screen Dance International
*Best of From Stage To Film Winner
Beirut International Women Film Festival
*Best Choreography Competition Winner
Thomas Edison Film Festival presented through Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts
*Stellar Award for Experimental
X World Short Film Festival
*Best Choreography Winner
Palm Springs International Dance Festival
*Semi-Finalist
DELETE TV
*Finalist
Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival
*Finalist
Queen Palm International Film Festival
*Finalist
ViDEOSKiN ii
*Honorable Mention
Cine@Art Festival
Glimmerglass Film Days
Bridges International Film Festival
Visões Urbanas São Paulo
Virtual Cinema at the National Gallery
Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival
New Renaissance London Film Festival
Garden State Film Festival
MashUp’s Choose to Challenge: Choreographer’s Showcase
Midwest RAD Fest
I’m Bored, What’s Next Festival
Artists for Hope Dance Film Festival
Third Coast Dance Film Festival
screen.dance - Scotland's Festival of Dance on Screen
Jersey City Theater Center’s The Box: Reinvention
Dance NJ’s Show Up & Dance: Celebrating the Dances of 2020!
Híbrido - Festival Brasileiro de Videodançe
Okto TV
Kalakari Film Festival
Utah Dance Film Festival
Encore Dance on Film Festival

2022

Choreography Online’s International Online Dance Competition
*Choreography Division: 1st Place
Richmond Dance Festival
ZED Festival Internazionale Videodanza
Breaking8 International Festival of Videodance
HANGART Fest

2023

Austin Dance Festival’s DANCE ON FILM
MalatestaShort Film Festival
*Honorable Mention

Dancer Stories: Charly & Eriel Santagado, IODC 2022 First Place Winners, Choreography Division

Under their company name of mignolo dance, Charly & Eriel Santagado continue a sisterly collaboration that started from a very young age. Fast forward to and beyond the 2020 COVID pandemic lockdown, and it would seem you have a choreographing duo that perhaps sees things a little differently than before. But as sisters they began, and as sisters they continue. Though things change as life moves forward, some things remain to remind us where we came from. Watch, and listen to their story.