SHE
Caught in a room the protagonist, Clarice, unfolds a vision of her own identity through a mirror interrogator. SHE is a cinematic adaptation of a solo dance performance with the same name. The original performance work was created and performed by Dorotea Saykaly and premiered at 5’eme Salle at Place des Arts in Montréal, Quebec in 2019. Inspired by The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector, the solo revolved around identity and doubt. Manifested through movement, distortion and an interview with a phantom interrogator, the original work proposed looking at a questioning body through a female lens. The cinematic adaptation of the original performance work arose during the first COVID lockdown in 2020 as a collaboration between Dorotea Saykaly and film director Emil Dam Seidel. “We wanted to make a film that addressed the isolation we were both experiencing, but didn’t want the work to revolve around covid. -So we tried to create a world on a universal sense of isolation – the digital isolation that has been creeping in between us all through the last decade.”
Emil Dam Seidel (SE)
Choreographer & Performer
Dorotea has danced with Compagnie Marie Chouinard in Montreal, touring internationally with the company for 8 years. She then relocated to Sweden to join the Goteborg Danskompani, one of Europe’s leading contemporary dance companies. Alongside her performance career, she has a body of work for stage and film. Dorotea moves fluidly through different environments, whether it be collaborating with visual artists such as Cooper&Gorfer or working in film. She has choreographed and performed in the awarded screendance short films PAINTED and Brief Candle, both featured in film festivals internationally. Her stage works have been shown in Goteborg, Stockholm, Malmo, Warsaw and at Place Des Arts in Montreal. She is the inaugural recipient of the Emily Molnar Emerging Choreographer Award and has recently created a new work for Ballet BC in Vancouver which is premiering on May 12th in 2022.
About the director
Emil Dam Seidel is an award winning film director and visual artist with +++. Most recently he directed and produced the acclaimed dance film SHE, which had its international premiere for public audiences at the Fotografiska Museum in New York City in 2022. Before starting his own career as a director, Emil notably assisted Thomas Vinterberg on the Academy award winning film Another Round and the Academy award winning director Susanne Bier on the film A Second Chance.
