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and sometimes i wish
Project Type
Performance, Film
Full Length Premiere
February 2023
Dancers
4-8
Choroegraphy
Garet Wierdsma in collaboration with the dancers
Music
"It's a Fine Day" by Billie Marten, "Uncertainty" by Arthur Vyncke, “Hush Little Baby (Mockingbird Song)”
by Unknown Artist, "rexlambo" by Abyss, "Abandoned The Outskirts" by Hayden Folker, "Identification" by
Naoya Sakamata, and "Adrift Among Infinite Stars" by Scott Buckley. Other sounds made and edited by
Garet&Co.
Awards
Dance Cinema Award - Frostbite Indie Film Fest 2021
3rd Prize - Emotion and Soul Film Festival 2021
1st Prize- Nacre Dance Group's "So You Think You Can Choreograph"
Official Selection - Queens Theatre’s “Turning In Place” Film Festival 2022
Live Presentations
"Inhale Series," Ku-Yang Lin & Dancers, 2021 (10 minute premiere)
"So You Think You Can Choreograph," Nacre Dance Group, 2021, First Prize Winner (10 minute)
“New Work Series” - Emerging Artist Theatre, 2022 (20 minute premiere)
“8 in Show” - Dixon Place, 2022 (12 minute excerpt)
Garet&Co Film Festival, 2022 (Musical Chairs)
"ECLIPSE," The Warner Theater, 2023 (30 minute premiere)
"and sometimes i wish & other works," Battell Chapel Norfolk CT, 2023
"Ko Da Fe," Ailey Citigroup Theatre, 2023 (30 minute)
"Arts Alive," Chesterwood, 2023 (30 minute)
"and sometimes i wish" is a whispered cry for help from the inside of someone with many sides of themselves; all fighting for dominance and simultaneously destroying the whole. This piece is a depiction of the strength required to continuously search for freedom despite the inevitable truth of captivity: where no matter how far you run, you can never truly escape yourself.
“and sometimes i wish” began as a dance film in June 2021 that went on to win the Dance Cinema Award at Frostbite Indie Film Fest and 3rd Prize at Emotion and Soul Film Festival. We then transformed the film into a live piece that was performed at Ku-Yang Lin & Dancers “Inhale” Series, and was the 1st Prize winner of Nacre Dance Group’s “So You Think You Can Choreograph” in the fall of 2021. In the winter of 2022, “and sometimes i wish” was selected as an official selection for Queens Theatre’s “Turning In Place” Film Festival Official Selection. In the spring of 2022, we performed the piece for Dixon Place’s “8 in Show,” and premiered the 20 minute version of the piece for Emerging Artist Theatre’s “New Work Series.” In October of 2022, we premiered the film “and sometimes i wish part 2: MUSICAL CHAIRS'' in the Garet&Co Film Festival. We combined the 20 minute stage version of “and sometimes i wish” with the part 2 choreography from “MUSICAL CHAIRS'' to premiere the full length version of the piece during Garet&Co’s inaugural evening length show in February 2023, and then performed the full length piece again locally for a performances at Battell Chapel in Norfolk CT and Chesterwood Studios in Stockbridge MA.