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Necessary Games – award winning collaboration with Restless Dance Theatre
Restless Dance Theatre, a youth dance company, driven by performers with disability, has recently won a number of film awards in collaboration with Closer Productions screen media company.
Necessary Games, a triptych of three short dance films, took top honours in South Australia's leading filmmaking competition when it premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival. The 18-minute work won best short film, best non-narrative film, best editing and best production design at the South Australian Screen Awards during the festival.
Necessary Games was also awarded Best Experimental Short Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
"We had a really great reception at the Adelaide Film Festival. Dance on film is still not very well understood, but the audience really responded to the quality of the work," said Sophie Hyde of Closer Productions and co-director of all three films.
The triptych forms a complete work to be screened as one piece, but the individual dance films can stand alone when screened separately. Each work explores a different take on intimacy and connection and the games people play.
Restless Dance Theatre works with young dancers with or without disability. In September 2008, The Heart of Another is a Dark Forest, a co-production between Restless Dance Theatre and Melbourne-based Rawcus Theatre won Best Performance at the Melbourne Fringe Awards.
Restless Dance Theatre employs professional creative and technical teams and is achieving widespread recognition for the quality of its work. The company welcomed Philip Channells as artistic director in May.
Philip will be presenting at the Arts Activated Conference 2010, Arts - Access - Excellence, and the first screening of Necessary Games in NSW will be showcased.