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Facing MaraArtsworld and ARTE FR ' A unique film' - In Camera Facing Mara is an innovative film study of a leading soloist dancer from the English Royal ballet.    This ambitious documentary combines three visual approaches, still photography, documentary and two choreographed dances, contemporary and classical. The theme of the work encapsulates the cycle of a day. The film begins with the stillness and silence of a beautiful cinematic study of the unconscious body to the awakening of movement from which emerges sound, colour and dance. A documentary is interjected into the choreographed work to give the audience an insight into the training, routine and passions between choreographer and dancer. As the film unfolds, the composer, choreographer and dancer are all revealed in their creative processes, resulting in an intensely human portrait of the artist at work. The interweaving of documentary and dance finally returns to the darkness and still drawings of the body - a dancer's day portrayed through film. Facing Mara offers a revealing and human insight into how dance is created. Directed by Phil Cox |