"Wanting"
ABOUT THE FILM
"Wanting" is an exploration in intimacy and space, both physical and philosophic. The film explores the idea of having all that is needed or expected.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
ROBIN GEE
Robin Gee holds is a choreographer and filmmaker specializing in African, Caribbean, and Modern dance techniques. She is an Associate Professor at UNC Greensboro where she teaches African and Contemporary dance as well as Composition and Screendance courses on both graduate and undergraduate levels. . Her choreographic works have appeared in the North Carolina Dance Festival, Dumbo Arts, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, as well as resident works mounted on various colleges and universities around the world. She is the recipient of the West African Research Association's Post-Doctoral Fellowship in African Research, the Central Piedmont Artist's Hub Grant for her work on Mande Culture. She is most recently the recipient of the Fulbright Scholars Award for her work on Urban Griots: R(e) Imaginaing the Word, studying griot cultures in Mali and Burkina Faso. She is the recipient of the American Association of University Women's Post Doctoral Research Award for her work on The Mande Legacy, a dance documentation project for which spent six months in Guinea. In 2006 Ms Gee also formed her own company Sugarfoote Productions, a multipurpose service organization designed to expose communities to the myriad expressions evident in African art and to help local audiences experience the richness of African and Diasporan cultural traditions. Sugarfoote also co-produces the Greensboro Dance Film Festival, a boutique dance film festival screening films from around the world. Ms. Gee’s own dance films have currently screened in 27 film festivals worldwide including but not limited to: ADF Movies by Movers; Screen Dance International; Aphrodite Film Festival; Indie Boom; Global Film Festival; Central States Indie Fest; L.I.M.P.A Festival; Adirondack Film Festival; Festival International Videodanza; Movimiento de Movimientos; CKF International Festival; PRISMA Dance Fest; Independent Shorts Awards; Frame x Frame Film Festival; Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, Dance Camera West: Scripted and Screening: The Dancing Body Politic: (LA), NCDF Moving Movers, Screendance in the Landscape (Scotland); Studio Faire Artists Residence Program (France).
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