Hamadryad
A dancer, or perhaps a wood nymph, rehearses alone in a New York studio enchanting herself into the forest that inspired her dance.
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Nancy AllisonDirector
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Paul AllmanDirector
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Nancy AllisonWriter
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Paul AllmanWriter
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Nancy AllisonProducer
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Paul AllmanProducer
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Miki OriharaKey Cast
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Genres:Experimental, Dance, Nature
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Runtime:8 minutes 27 seconds
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Completion Date:September 18, 2014
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Production Budget:15,000 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:HDV
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Film Society of Lincoln Center's Dance on Camera FestivalNew York City
January 31, 2015
World Premiere
Official Selection -
Mykonos BiennaleMykonos, Greece
July 3, 2015
European Premiere
Official Selection -
Honolulu Screen AwardsHonolulu, HI
May 5, 2015
Best Hawaiian Film -
IndieFEST Film AwardsLaJolla, CA
May 14, 2015
Award of Merit:Nature/Environment/Wildlife -
Philadelphia Screendance FestivalPhiladelphia, PA
February 7, 2016
Pennsylvania Premiere
Official Selection -
Oklahoma Dance Film FestivalTulsa, Oklahoma
February 7, 2016
Oklahoma premiere
Offical Selection -
Colortape Film FestivalBrisbane, Australia
August 19, 2016
Australian Premiere
Top 100 -
Another Independent Film FestivalMadison, WI
United States
November 13, 2015
Wisconsin premiere
Official Selection -
Festival International du Films sur l'ArtMontréal, Quebec
Canada
March 13, 2016
Canadian premiere
Official Selection -
São Carlos Videodance FestivalSão Carlos, São Paulo
Brazil
August 19, 2016
South American Premiere
Official Selection -
Jacob Burns Film Center Dance on Film FestivalPleasantville,NY
United States
October 24, 2016
Official Selection -
Cinemística 2016Granada
Spain
Spanish premiere
Official Selection -
Depth of Field International Film Festival 2016Delaware
United States
Award of Excellence/ Short Films, Award of Excellence/ Cinematography, Award of Exceptional Merit/ Editing -
YoFi FestivalYonkers, NY
United States
November 5, 2017
Hudson Valley premiere
Official Selection -
Underexposed Film FestivalRock Hill, SC
United States
May 12, 2018
South Carolina Premiere
Official Selection -
VOB Film FestivalCarmel, NY
United States
September 1, 2018
Official Selection -
Battery Dance FestivalNew York, NY
United States
August 18, 2020
Official Selection
Nancy Allison (Co-producer/director/Dance Stager) has danced in major ballet companies, theater productions and on the concert stage. She was one of the three-member Theater of The Open Eye company awarded the prize for Best Company at the 15th International Festival de la Danse at the Theatre de Champs Elysees in Paris. Her choreography has been presented by the Athens Festival in Greece, House of Composers in Moscow, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Blossom Music Festival in Cleveland, OH and Artquake in Portland, OR, among others. She is the executive producer and featured dancer of the three volume video archive, Dance and Myth: The World of Jean Erdman. She has taught on faculty and as a guest artist at universities throughout the U.S from NYU to University of Hawaii and in Italy at University of Venice and as a regular guest artist for INDACO (Indomite Incursioni di Danza e Arte Contemporanea) in collaboration with Danza Venezia. She has received grants from the NEA, NYSCA, Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation, as well as, the Laurance Rockefeller gift in support of her work. Allison is currently artistic director of Jean Erdman Dance for which she stages Erdman’s classic modern dance repertory from the 1940s and 50s on companies throughout the US.
Paul Allman (Co-producer/director/editor) has worked as a video producer, director, cameraman and editor for Broadway productions, at Radio City Music Hall and for numerous museums throughout the US and abroad. He co-directed and edited the documentary Proud to Be Verizon, which won Cine’s Master Series Award for Best Non-Broadcast Production in the U.S., beating out HBO and many others. Allman edited the feature-length documentary, Speaking With Music, about a piano competition pitting child prodigies against each other, which has been broadcast on over 40 PBS stations nationwide. He directed and edited the short documentary Hidden in Plain Sight, the story of an emotional reunion of a Holocaust survivor and her rescuer, 60 years later, for the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR). Four other films he produced and directed for JFR have all won multiple awards. Allman designed several multi-screen installations for the newly renovated Normandy Museum in France, which included visually tracking the D-Day invasion in an eight-minute film entitled Beyond the Beachhead. He has also designed multi-screen exhibits for the Jamestown Museum, the Palm Beach County Museum, the United States Naval Academy Museum, the NCAA Hall of Champions and the College Football Hall of Fame. Most recently he produced a multi-screen video for SPIES: The Exhibition now showing at the Discovery Center in Times Square.