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Alan Lake / 2022 / 16 min. / Canada / FSD / Canada

Synopsis

Enter a world where fantasy and dream combine with the movement of the body, where time stops until rebirth.

Cast & Crew

Screenplay : Alan Lake
Cinematographer : François Gamache
Editor : Jason Arbour
Sound : Maxime Vermette
Sound mix : Maxime Vermette
Sound editor : Antoine Berthiaume
Music : Antoine Berthiaume
Artistic director : Julie Lévesque
Cast : Odile Amélie Peters, Fabien Piché, David Rancourt, Esther Rousseau Morin

Genre

Film de danse

Topics

Dance

Biography

Alan Lake is a performer, choreographer, director and visual artist. He studied visual arts for five years (DEC and BAC in visual arts). He undertakes and obtains his technical DEC in Dance-performance in 2007 at the Quebec Dance School.

Since 2007, Alan Lake has joined the companies: Harold Rhéaume's son, Adrien dances in NU, Jumeaux - a co-creation with the French choreographer Yvann Alexandre - and in the creation: Fluid, all as a performer. He participates in the first Grand Continental of Sylvain Émard Danse. He is an interpreter for Dana Gingras - Animal of Distinction in a video clip of Arcade Fire. It will be Adrian Rheaume’s son next work of the Rheaume White Partitions.

Filmography

2019

The Embrace of the Valkyries / 16 min.
2015

Ravages / 22 min.

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