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In this short film, Margie Gillis becomes the very embodiment of modern dance - she steps into the light, lifts her arms and unleashes her extraordinary mane into the air.

Four decades into a remarkable career, Gillis is a beacon of compassion and creativity. Watch as high-speed cameras capture the delicate and savage joy of Canada's own Isadora Duncan.

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in co-operation with the National Arts Centre and the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation on the occasion of the 2011 Governor General's Performing Arts Awards.

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Source, Pepita Ferrari, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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Credits
  • recipient
    Margie Gillis
  • director
    Pepita Ferrari
  • writer
    Pepita Ferrari
  • director of photography
    Sylvaine Dufaux
  • editor
    Miguel Raymond
  • original music
    Éric Auclair
  • sound design
    Éric Auclair
  • musician
    Mélanie Auclair
  • sound editing
    Don Ayer
  • 1st assistant director
    Vanessa Mujica
  • key grip
    Patrice Dagenais
  • grip
    Joël Poisson
  • gaffer
    Bernard April
  • lighting technician
    Guy Ferland
  • 1st assistant camera
    Dominic Lapointe
  • makeup
    Jacques Lee Pelletier
  • esthetician
    Emma Minaraki
  • publicity stills
    Anthony McLean
  • digital management technician
    Yann Mongrain
  • online editor
    Yannick Carrier
  • titles
    Gaspard Gaudreau
  • technical coordinator
    Steve Hallé
    France Couture
    Micheline Faubert
  • digital editing supervisor
    Danielle Raymond
  • digital editing technician
    Isabelle Painchaud
  • mix
    Serge Boivin
  • senior production coordinator
    Camila Blos
  • production coordinator
    Shiraz Janjua
    Christine Williams
  • program administrator
    Leslie Anne Poyntz
  • marketing manager
    Kelly Fox
  • associate producer
    Dara Moats
  • producer
    Kat Baulu
  • senior producer
    Gerry Flahive
  • executive producer
    Ravida Din
  • translation
    Robert Paquin

  • kokdancer

    WOW ! This works on so many levels !Love the start really connected with dancer then as sensuality of piece dawned on me together with perfect voice over i was entranced !Thank you for this gift of pure dance !Once saw Imperial Japanese Kok Orchestra at R.A.Hall Proms with fantastiv Japanese dancer in fantastic Kimono outfit -not wrapped round her just hung on her !This reminded me of the free flowing dance she displayed,controlled but,so free and sensual !More is less for those who do not get it ,watch with your heart not your brain ,we are not androids ,the heart has a brain as well !

    kokdancer, 5 Jan 2012
  • cinecritic

    I don't know... you take away Gillis's trademark faux-celtic-goddess slow-motion hair tossing and what's left in the film? Vacuous musings on why people aren't nice anymore? Hello? Could we at least have seen a few actual dance steps?

    cinecritic, 28 Sep 2011

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