Charged, a dance film by Daniel Gwirtzman, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance Performance, is an official selection of the 12th annual Third Coast Dance Film Festival. Two screenings are scheduled for the 2023 festival, the first at the Nevada Museum of Art on February 9th and the second at The Holland Project February 10th.
School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Professor Daniel Gwirtzman’s Film Presented in Reno, Nevada
By Daniel Gwirtzman, February 9, 2023
Dance Film, Charged, Screens at Third Coast Dance Film Festival, Reno, Nevada, February 9 & 10, 2023.
The festival celebrates the intersection of contemporary dance and the moving image, reflecting diversity in genre, form, and representation.
ABOUT THE FILM
Charged showcases an over-caffeinated Everywoman in her kitchen on the brink of disaster. A portrait of a driven, detailed woman who manages an array of tasks, alternating between the discipline of accomplishing and the daydream of departing. Humor, grit, exhaustion, frustration, and liberation emerge as themes as the soloist pursues unexpected actions within a familiar setting.
The film, commissioned by the Texas-based Flatlands Dance Theatre, made its premiere during the Solo Series, a week-long screening (May, 2021). It screened to live audiences at the DanceBARN ScreenDANCE Festival (Battle Lake, Minnesota, July, 2021) at TDP’21, Tipperary Dance Platform’s international dance festival (Tipperary, Ireland, October, 2021), and the Thessaloniki Cinedance International (Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2022).