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Super Human

  • Tara Lee Burns
    Director
    Reveal
  • Maureen Clark
    Key Cast
  • Catherin Cryan
    Key Cast
  • Mark Metcalf
    Key Cast
  • Sharon Oliver
    Key Cast
  • Nancy Rafert
    Key Cast
  • Ken Vail
    Key Cast
  • Maureen Clark
    Choreographers
  • Catherin Cryan
    Choreographers
  • Mark Metcalf
    Choreographers
  • Sharon Oliver
    Choreographers
  • Nancy Rafert
    Choreographers
  • Ken Vail
    Choreographers
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    dance film, docudrama
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 38 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 11, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Tara Lee Burns

Tara Lee Burns is an interdisciplinary dance artist, choreographer, and educator interested in combining dance, theater, and design making practices to re-imagine digital and analog technologies that manifest inside and outside the body. Before beginning her MFA in dance at The Ohio State University, she toured nationally with Adele Myers and Dancers for over 10 years while living in NYC and Connecticut. She has also worked with Marjani Forté, Alexandra Beller, Kelly Drummond Cawthon, and Béatrice Kombe, among many others, who have inspired her interests in performing, making, and being. She received an MA in Digital performance from The University of Hull in the UK and a BFA in Dance from The University of Florida. Tara’s work has been presented in theaters, studios, on computer screens, and on the sides of buildings. Her current research investigates the possibilities for multidisciplinary investigation and nonlinear immersion through technology.

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Director Statement

“I get excited about the aesthetics of objects and how they affect space. Dancers, screens, bags of topsoil, 60-foot strings of elastic, VR-headsets, inanimate or animate; I’m interested in shaping the space by moving what’s in it. Textures, depth, and the malleability of objects displace space and inform the space between. When combining a human body and inanimate objects I’m interested in the contrast that informs similarities. The expression of a human face, the personality and human imperfection that makes this moment unique. To highlight the contrasts between the ephemerality of moving space between bodies and objects, I often create improvisational and choreographic algorithms and/or tasks that keep the environment generative and allow humanness of the performer’s choices to come to the surface during performance. I do not use technology to overshadow, or discount the effort, sweat, and resilience I value in dance practice but to enhance the bodily facility and forefront new ways of creating and disseminating choreography.”