Last Dance at the Sundance Stompede
In November 2023, over 800 people from all over the world gathered in San Francisco to attend the Sundance Stompede, an LGBT+ country-western dance weekend with four days of workshops and exhibition performances across three venues. After 27 years this year is the final Stompede. As we journey into the weekend, a film about country western dancing reveals deeper insights into the power of dance - not only to create community but to offer a profound healing of bodies and minds.
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Graham Clayton-ChanceDirector
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Graham Clayton-ChanceProducer
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Paul Harry ThomasProducer
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Casey ReganDirector of Photography
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Project Type:Documentary
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Genres:Dance, LGBTQ+
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Runtime:51 minutes
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Completion Date:January 14, 2025
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Production Budget:40,000 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:United States, United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital. Black Magic 4K
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Aspect Ratio:4:3
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Graham Clayton-Chance (1972, UK) is an artist and filmmaker.
His multidisciplinary work focus’s on exploring queer histories, biography and the body often in collaboration with performance and dance artists
His work examines the portrayal of biography, memory and portraiture in film and live performance interweaving techniques from documentary and fiction.
His most recent film collaboration with mandla ‘as british as a watermelon’ was shown at
Sharjah Biennial (2023) and at the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin in the group show Performance as Rupture (2023) as well as the Barbican cinema and South London Gallery.
Since 2012, he has been constructing the archive for UK choreographer and dancer Nigel Charnock, drawing on his relationship with the artist to explore mutable boundaries between collector and archive, grief, artefact and memory. The film 'You', from this body of work screened at London BFI Flare, 2018. Dance Films Association, New York, Lincoln Centre, 2017. San Francisco Dance Film Festival, 2017 and at the IZM/London Dance Film Festival, was nominated for Best Short Film.
As an Arts producer, he has produced film works with Isaac Julian, Phil Collins and Emily Wardell, on works screening at Rotterdam (Soy Mi Madre. 2010, Tiger Award Nominee. Meaning of Style. 2012, Tiger Award Nominee), Berlin (Soy Mi Madre. 2011, Queer Teddy Nominee), Tate Gallery and the Royal Academy of Art.