Premiere: SPACE Gallery Portland, Maine, November 2021
Choreographer & Director: Ali Kenner Brodsky
Performers: Ali Kenner Brodsky & Jenna Pollack
Composer: MorganEve Swain
Director of Photography: Rich Ferri
Co-Director: Jarrett Blinkhorn
Costume: MEG by Meghan Kinney
to be near you., a dance film, recalls memories and embodies emotion, and is based on a live duet between Ali Kenner Brodsky and Jenna Pollack. to be near you. honors the memory of those that we have lost, collapses distance by energizing the spaces between, and demonstrates how people can find connection through physical separation.
Supported in part by the Jamestown Arts Center and SPACE Gallery.
Funded in part by New England Foundation for the Arts’ New England Dance Fund, with generous support from the Aliad Fund at the Boston Foundation.
Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.
Awards & Screenings:
Oniros Film Festival “Grand Jury Winner”
Altff Alternative Film Festival “Semi Finalist”
Santorini Film Festival, Greece “Best Experimental Film”
ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival, Toronto “Best Dance Film,”
Nashville Independent Filmmakers Festival “Semi-Finalist”
Jacksonville Dance Film Festival, Florida
Portland Dance Film Festival, Oregon
Paris Women Festival “Semi-Finalist”
LA Dance Film Festival, CA
Dance on Camera Festival, NYC
Close:Up Reykjavík, Iceland, “Best Experimental Film”
Swedish International Film Festival “Best Dance Film”
Beyond the Curve International Film Festival, France, Nominated “Best Short Film”
Kalakari Film Festival, India
American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers, North Carolina