Counter//balance (2018) watch online HD

A foot balances precariously on a slick floor. A wheel turns and poses on pointe. They meet and overlap in our vision, moving away simultaneously as if never there. Innumerable, yet slight iterations edge them towards gritty and resolute perfection. Some moments are easy to grasp, embrace, and memorialize. Others shiver, shift, and elude form. A percussive sole, a guitar chord, a wheel skidding across an unforgiving floor. A pattern evolves as it is reshaped, movements repeated, recreated, revealed. Ephemeral shots construct the whole from fragments, eluding to how memories bring back to us what we lose to time or mortality. counter//balance weaves together observational footage, interviews, and rehearsals filmed over the course of a year as choreographer and dancer, Anita Fillmore Kenny, and dancer Kris Lenzo, work with musician Jamie Fillmore to craft a short dance piece, Counterpart. The project examines numerous themes - absence and presence, love and loss, equilibrium and ...