Our Work
Currently ‘In Release’ are several 2D and 3D short films. We also offer screenings, performances and lectures. Works listed as ‘In Progress’ and ‘For Demonstration’ are in development.
To book a screening, lecture or performance, please contact us .
Dolphin Dreams
Follow two New York City dancers as they dive into an unprecedented interspecies collaboration, creating underwater dances with a charismatic pod of wild Atlantic Spotted dolphins in the open ocean. (for 2017 release, 12 minutes)
- Underwater Cinematography by multi-Emmy Award winning filmmaker Howard Hall
- Original Score by Grammy Award winning cellist and composer David Darling, through a New York State Council of the Arts award
Amongst
Lose yourself in the radically different world of wild dolphins as you follow graceful dancers into the deep ocean, surrounded by swirling, chattering, and squawking, at once familiar and unfamiliar. (released 2015, 5 mins 20 sec)
- 2D and 3D formats available
- Best Live Action Film in 3D Theater Session - Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXVII, San Francisco, 2016
- Features 2015 Asia Cup silver medalist in static apnea, Yuki Kusachi
Together
In the deep blue waters of the Pacific Ocean a woman and wild Spinner Dolphins forge a tender relationship through the graceful language of dance. (released 2010, 3 mins)
- Best Experimental Film at Big Apple Film Festival, 2010
- Best Short Film - Animal Advocacy at Artivist Film Festival NYC, 2012
Introducing “Jalapeño”
We introduce "Jalapeño" a baby dolphin who is a featured dancer in our upcoming film, "Dolphin Dreams".
Radiohead’s Daydreaming #RHVignette
Our vision of Daydreaming for Radiohead's #rhvignette call for submissions.
One Dolphin Day On Earth
Our video contribution to the One Day on Earth film project...from the dolphins' perspective.
So Close 3D
Meet wild dolphins as you've never met them before. This one hour program opens with a multi-media performance and culminates with several 3D underwater dance films that offer an intimate experience of participating in a movement-based conversation with wild dolphins - as close as being there. (premiered 2014, 60 minutes)
- Funded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Angle of Refraction
Angle of Refraction (2013) was our first site-specific underwater dance performance.
Interdisciplinary Lectures
Our interdisciplinary lectures feature our short films, along with behind-the-scenes stories, and educational content about dolphin biology and cognition, ocean ecology as well as dance and the creative process. Lectures can be combined with dance improvisation workshops and/or film screenings.
Lectures have been given at: educational insitutions including Harvard University, Smith College, Bennington College, Lawrence University, Hewitt School and others, as well as academic and other conferences including Form in Question, New York University (2016), Curiosity3 Dance and Science, Columbia University (2014), Beneath the Sea Expo, Meadowlands, NJ (2013)
Please contact us to schedule a lecture at your school or event.
