Working in partnership with Birmingham’s BAFTA-qualifying Flatpack Festival, we present a selection of innovative screendance shorts made by filmmakers and choreographers around the world.

This genre-spanning programme sees dance meet animation (Downfall and True Sound Façade) and documentary (touching tribute to Coventry Baths The Bird and the Elephant), meet horror, in the delightful An Evening with Taglioni.

True Sound Façade by Laura N-Tamara

UK | 2020 | 2 mins

https://youtu.be/Rh8lTndfmT0

Knot directed by Marie Lechevallier

UK |  2020 | 8 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLyw1auUOwQ

Impressions: Ensign 7 directed by Ukweli ‘Quails’ Roach, Kendra ‘Kro’ Horsburgh

UK | 2021 | 5 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbhwjyKhbDg

Hibernation Dream directed by Zara Sands

UK | 2021 | 6 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKIzYScEQzM&feature=youtu.be

The Bird and the Elephant directed by Emma Critchley

UK | 2021 | 15 mins

https://youtu.be/z33NbchWCqk

Glance directed by Lee Peterkin

US | 2022 | 3 mins

https://youtu.be/QkpCr_m2N30

When the Night Falls directed by Kimmo Lee

Finland |  2021 | 10 mins

https://youtu.be/EPzXgnddqMs

Downfall directed by Rona Fayad

Lebanon |  2021 | 3 mins

https://youtu.be/agpShcWwbeo

An Evening with Taglioni directed by Jessica Wright, Morgann Runacre-Temple

UK | 2021 | 14 mins

https://youtu.be/xiKjGhxw3xc