Created by award-winning choreographer and filmmaker Sue Healey with music by New Zealand jazz legend Mike Nock, Virtuosi is a feature length documentary about the drive to be an artist and the special nature of virtuosity in dance. Through exhilarating dance and stories from the heart, Virtuosi reveals intimate and astounding portraits of eight New Zealand dance artists. Destined for greatness, these artists all left their homeland in their youth to pursue careers around the world. They have each achieved remarkable things in the world of contemporary dance and through this film, audiences have the rare chance to witness their artistry as they reflect on their careers. 

Virtuosi weaves ideas and dances across many cities and cultures – Berlin, London, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Townsville, Brussels – revealing fascinating dance lineages and creative insights.

It is the nature of embodied knowledge of dance that drives this film. What is its unique-ness? What is its power? Why dance?
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Virtuosi exists as a 76 minute single screen documentary and a 3 channel installation for gallery spaces.

To purchase Virtuosi:

http://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/10547/virtuosi.html

Awards

• Outstanding Achievement in Dance on Film, Australian Dance Awards 2013

• Silver for Cinematographer Judd Overton 2013 ACS Awards Australia for Documentaries, Cinema & TV.

Touring History

International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal, Canada
Documentary Edge Festival – Wellington
Dance On Camera Festival, Lincoln Centre, New York
Ten Days on The Island Festival, Tasmania 
Auckland Arts Festival, New Zealand
Byron Bay International Film Festival
The Body Festival, Christchurch
National Dance Forum, Melbourne
DOCEDGE Festival Wellington
DOCEDGE on tour New Zealand – Gisborne, Waiheke Island
ARC Cinema, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia
Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
American Dance Festival, Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA
Golden Prague, International Television Festival, (In Competition) Prague
Festival Films on Art – Lisbon Portugal
In Shadow Festival of Technology (In Competition) Lisbon, Portugal
Perth – Eyes Wide Festival
Sydney – Bangarra Theatre
Cinedans Festival, Amsterdam
Australia/NZ Festival of Arts and Literature, London
World Dance Alliance Conference – Angers, France

Reviews

Real Time Arts: http://www.realtimearts.net/article/119/11470  

Jennifer Nikolai: http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=5732

The New Zealand Herald http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment-reviews/news/article.cfm?c_id=1502967&objectid=10872605

Stills from film: Jeremy Nelson (NY), Lisa Densem (Berlin), Sarah-Jayne Howard (Melbourne)

Mark Baldwin (UK), Ross McCormack (Belgium), Raewyn Hill (Australia), Claire O'Neil (NZ), Craig Bary (Australia)