Cup of Wine
trt, 6:24, 2010
With the aid of three expert dancers and the waters of the Fraser River’s Hells Gate rapids, choreographer Wen Wei Wang and I re-imagine five Tang and Song dynasty poems, with their Buddhist layers of reality and illusion, shifting nuances of human sentiment, and Taoist love of nature. To re-visualize these layered poems, we reduce the human body to elemental parts: hands, necks, backs. Dance, in this film, is pure, expressive human movement. And we allow one dancer to fly, as dancers did in Song dynasty cave frescos.
Principal Crew
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
Daniel Conrad
CHOREOGRAPHER
Wen Wei Wang
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PRINCIPAL DANCERS
Karissa Barry
Sonja Perreten
Banning Roberts
ADDITIONAL DANCING
Scott Augustine
Paulina Kee
Tiffany Tregarthen
Wen Wei Wang
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EDITOR
Michael Brockington
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Daniel Conrad
SOUND
Dieter Piltz
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Sal Ferreras
Produced by Rhodopsin Productions Ltd.
Produced with the assistance of the
Canada Council for the Arts Dance on Screen Production Fund
Produced with the assistance of the British Columbia Arts Council
Produced in Association with ZDFtheaterkanal, Mainz, Germany
Commissioning Editor: Frank Grevsmühl
Made with the assistance of the Cineworks 2010 Production Fund, which is supported by Deluxe Vancouver & Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
With the participation of The Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit &
The Province of British Columbia Film Incentive BC
Poetry by Su Tong-Po (Song of Dongxian Ge) and Li Qingzhao (Rumeng Ling, & One Plum Blossom) Translated from the Chinese by Huihui Shen
Edited in English by Daniel Conrad, © 2009, © 2010
“Drinking Alone by Moonlight” by Li Bai
Translated from a Pinyin/English gloss by Daniel Conrad, © 2009
“Saraha” by Robert Bringhurst, © 1986
Narrators: Ron Halder and Jane Mortifee
Music:
“The Snow is Dancing”
by Claude Debussy
Piano, Rena Sharon
“Sonata in G minor for Violin and Piano”
by Claude Debussy
Piano, Rena Sharon; Violin, Jasper Wood
Writer Daniel Conrad
Art Director Daniel Conrad
Focus Puller Rob Simpson
Gaffer Randy Biro
Digital Technician Brian Scholz
Production Managers Nova Ami, John Huddart, Anna Kraulis
Assistant Director Paulina Kee
Asst. Production Manager Gillian Greenfeld
Sound Recording David Meszaros
Costumes Rebecca Bond
Genesis Camera Package Jeff Flowers, Panavision Canada
Lighting Equipment Zach Steele, PS Production Services
Filmstock Roger Reed, Eastman Kodak
Colour Timing Thor Roos, Claudio Sepulveda
Accommodations provided by the Rosedale on Robson Suite Hotel