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synopsis Dance-film set to the seismographic recordings of the earth's vibrations. director Abe Abraham currently works and resides in New York City. Mr. Abraham received his BFA in Dance from the Tisch School for the Arts at New York University. As the artistic director of Abanar, Mr. Abraham creates video-art works that feature dancers from some of the leading dance companies in the world, including New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Complexions, Shen Wei, Stephen Petronio, and Dutch National Ballet. His work has been presented with the Dance Films Association, 92Y, Symphony Space, and Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporania. Film Festival selections include: Paris Art and Movie Awards (PAMA), Mexico City Video Dance Festival, International Film and Art Festival in Buenos Aires, 3rd Braga International Video Dance Festival, and Rome Independent Prisma Awards. Mr. Abraham's most recent work "Salt Water" featuring the world renowned Desmond Richardson premiered at Symphony Space in November 2017, and was highlighted on NY1 with Roma Torre. Website filmmaker's note In my artistic practice, I work with the human body to create abstract sculptural forms that evolve over time. I seek to create a mass that transcends the individual. In "Salt Water", the living sculpture responds to a dynamic range of conditions beyond its control, much in the way that weather patterns shift geological formations. We are drawn into the push and pull of a large mass, the swell of an anonymous crowd of interlocked bodies where individual identification is only a momentary glimpse. Beneath the abstract form, intimate human connections reside. For the viewer, this negotiation between a distant abstract surface and a face in close proximity evokes a stroke of empathy; a call from the depths that is once again swept away. The work's central challenge is to expose the humanity and complexity of the individual as she or he exists within the crowd. related links
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