Re-Shaping Landscapes

Dance film

Re-Shaping Landscapes is an award-winning dance film that explores ecological transformation through movement, place, and embodied experience. Filmed across climate-affected landscapes, including Holme Beach, Norfolk, the work investigates how choreography can create new ways of sensing environmental change and our relationship to vulnerable ecosystems.

Awards and recognition

• Best Dance Film – Kyoto Independent Film Festival (2026)
• Best Dance Film – New York Film & Cinematography Awards (2026)
• Nominated Best Director in Dance Music Film – Cannes Film Awards (2026)
• Best Dance Short – San Francisco Arthouse Festival (2026)
• Best Dance Short – Palm Beach Shorts Festival (2026)

Developed as part of the wider Re-Shaping Landscapes research project, the film brings together performers from the UK, Cyprus, Sweden and Hong Kong within a shared choreographic framework shaped by geographic coordinates and site-responsive movement practices. Through cinematic choreography, the film reimagines landscapes as active collaborators rather than passive backdrops.

The work contributes to growing conversations in dance, screendance, environmental humanities, and practice research by exploring movement as a form of ecological engagement.

Film credits

Film by Eva Aymami Rene and Josh Newman

Holme Beach, Norfolk coast, UK

Dance: Eva Aymami Rene
Filmmaker: Josh Newman
Thanks to the support of the Living in Changing Landscapes project at ARU.

Panagia Chrysopolitissa Church, Kyrenia, Cyprus

Dance: Tamara McCarty, Yıldız Sarah Güventürk
Camera and Editing: Juan Castrillón Vallejo
Director of Photography and Costume Design: Pervin Kurçeren
Directors: Tamara McCarty, Juan Castrillón Vallejo
Thanks to the support of Arkin Creative Arts and Design University, Cyprus – ARUCAD.

Wan Chai Reclamation, Hong Kong Island

Choreography and Dramaturgy: Melina Scialom
Director: Damy Mak
Dancers: Chen Lin, He Cong, Ying Nan Shi, Zhang Yujie, Zhou Meihan
Assistant Director: Eugenie Wong
Producer: Mo Tang
Videographer: Johnny Lau, Matrix LI
Gaffer: Matrix LI
Sound design: Paul Zhao
With the support and kind permission of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
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Narsholm, Gotland, Sweden

Dance and camera: Sigrid Sjoholm