Dancing The Tree

Dancing The Tree is a short art film that encapsulates the artist Rachel Rovay as a subject matter and dancer. Dance becomes a metaphor that evokes a connection to our urban environment and an alliance between dance, culture, and nature.

  • Rachel Rovay
    Director
  • Rachel Rovay
    Writer
    Dr Helen Light
  • John Hipwell
    Producer
    Dr Helen Light,
  • Rachel Rovay
    Key Cast
    "As herself"
  • Shenella De Silva
    Composer & Sound Engineer
  • Joyce Kwan
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Dance, Environmental
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 35 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 6, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    500 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    4K Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Rachel Rovay

Rachel Rovay is an Australian contemporary fine artist.

Dancing The Tree is the first film she has written & directed.

Rovay has exhibited her art monthly at the Rovay Window Gallery since the lockdown in March 2020.

Rovay’s artwork has been selected for the following prestigious group exhibitions: The Sulman Prize; (Art Gallery of NSW), the Logan Art Award (Logan Art Gallery, Qld), the Dobell Prize For Drawing (Art Gallery Of NSW), the Portia Geach Memorial Award, (S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney) the Mosman Art Prize, the Redland Westpac Art Prize, the Stanthorpe Art Prize and was awarded a commendation for “Between Jerusalem and Melbourne” from Ben Uri Gallery, Jewish Museum of Art, London.

Rovay exhibited in group exhibitions overseas: Monash Prato Centre Italy, United Nations conference in Durban, South Africa and Tram Studios, Camden Town, UK.

Rovay received a Diploma of Design and Fine Art from Monash University and a Graduate Diploma of Education from the University of Melbourne.

Selected public collections: Australian Conservation Foundation, State Library of Victoria, Macquarie University Sydney, Deakin University Art Collection, Monash Medical Centre Art Collection, Jewish Museum of Australia, National Sports Museum (MCC) and by numerous private collectors locally and internationally.

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Director Statement

Art and the figure are set in a colourful motion through ancient-inspired dance, film, sound and digital media form, swaying us into the empowerment and healing of nature. The live performance was filmed on the nature strip in Middle Park, Victoria, Australia. Rachel Rovay is a fine artist (Monash University), writer/director, and a trained dancer. A collaboration between Film producer John Hipwell, Sound Designer Shenella De Silva and Editor Joyce Kwan created a new voice. Local nature scenes are deconstructed into elementary components, lines, shapes and colours, only to be reconstructed, transformed and infused with a new language of expression and a new artistic visual vocabulary.