CROWDS by Sarah Friedland

A 3-channel video installation of a durational dance, CROWDS investigates the choreography of crowd typologies and the slippages between them. Much like a flock of murmurating birds, the thresholds between these crowd types are blurred and distorted: the rocking of bodies in prayer slip into the shaking of raving dancers, the training exercises of sports teams slide into the structured formations of fascist spectacles. Focusing on these collective formations, movements, and gestures, CROWDS uses dance to interrogate the distinctions we make and to destabilize the relationship between ideologies and moving bodies. It attempts to articulate the embedded choreographic register of our political discourses and polemics, reflecting what is amassed and what is lost as we gather and disperse.

Directed, Choreographed and Edited: Sarah Friedland

Produced Brighid Greene and Sarah Friedland

Executive Produced by Brigel Gjoka and Mattia Gandini an Art Factory International Production

Featuring: Sabina Aeschlimann, Aranxa Alvarez, Bruno Barón Escobedo, Mariana Calazans, Julia Canard, Alessia Fuiano, Felipe Fizkal, Félicité Guillo, Saphir Lise Legrand, Beatrice Leonardi, Clarisse Mialet, Iida Elise Murumets, Giuliana Nanna, Garazi Prieto Foruria, Agata Pankowska, David Ramalho, Carminda Soares, Maria R Soares, Vajdaan Shah, Rosie Tong, Linda Zaniboni, Chloé Zermatten

Director of Photography: Luca Nervegna

Sound Design: Denera James and Assaf Gidron

Camera/Steadicam Operator: Andrea Grossi

Sound Mixer/Boom Operator: Giuseppe Tripodi

Key Grip: Giorgio Protti

Colorist: Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinell