NEWTOY
Depths عمق
Fluidity in medium and in movement, shapeshifting and amorphous, three dancers journey from the depths to the surface. They transition between five different states on their trajectory upwards. The bodies fluctuating fluidly between submission to the medium and resisting it, the water soon gives way to to the life within it, embodying the aqueous force they blend and morph towards the other side of the surface.
In this debut collaboration between choreographer Shaymaa Shoukry and composer and editor Joel Cahen, their shared passion of the water medium is realised with an unusual project. Due to the lack of a physical collaborative space, the collaboration resulted in a video created in an intuitive and fluid creative process.
Duration: 11m
Choreography: Shaymaa Shoukry
Video edit and Music: Joel Cahen
Dancers: Farahnaz Hany, Salma Salem, Shaymaa Shoukry
Videographer: Shahir Maged Mikhail
Supported by Farnham Malting in the UK, The British Council and Orient Productions in Cairo.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Official Selection at Neum Underwater Film Festival 2023
DISCOGRAPHY
PLUTONOVARIAN
Was a weekly radio show broadcast 2005 - 2016 on Resonance 104.4fm London and a series on CAMP.FR (2020-2022) titles Everything At Once Forever.
I served an abstract mash ups and simultaneous sound collages played live and improvised using two turntables,, two CD players, and effects unit and a bag full of MP3s film excerpts, field recordings and just about any possible sound I can get my hands on
2014. Soundsoup excerpts >> Click on images to listen
Live abstract Mash ups. silmuntaneous playback. Plunderphonic Schizophonic Cacophonic
THE COMMITTEE
:::POWER PORTRAITS:::DOMINATION:::ABSTRACTION:::ABSURD:::
Duration: 13min
Format: DVD 1 - 4 channels
Presentation:
Large Projection/s stereo/quad sound
Also as a live performance with the video used as a backdrop
BUSBUG
Winner of the ICA Best Short FIlm Award
Using phone camera footage from 2003
CALL AMANDA
Created from conception to end in 48hrs as part of the 48hr film challange
THE REMOTE ISLAND TOUR
"... very moving and the idea and the premise behind the project are very much original... The best thing is that the documentary was at no point pretentious, it was very light-hearted and heart-warming, and it felt like a genuine journey with a purpose and a goal.
The photography was beautiful and so was the sound design - both of those elements added even more layers to an already genuine story." - Marina Bruncevic, script reader at Miramax (2007)
The Remote Island Tour follows Israeli-born dancer and choreographer Daniel Vais on an improvised tour of the islands off the west coast of Ireland in the summer of 2007.
Carrying only a backpack and with a very limited budget, Daniel introduces contemporary dance in traditional locations and to unsuspecting audiences, creating a unique and personal experience of dance as an artistic and expressive forum, fusing and challenging traditional and modern dance practices.
A film by Joel Cahen. 55min
Starring Daniel Vais
A Newtoy production with Cultural Device, 2008
As played live on NTS Radio back in the day
Extracting the quintessential gloop of epiphany in ritual practice through simultaneous playback.
.Devil Voodoo.