Choreographies of Restraint & Resistance
Sun, Nov 30
|Millennium Film Workshop
Co-presented with ArteEast
Time & Location
Nov 30, 2025, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM
Millennium Film Workshop, 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237, USA
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About the event
CHOREOGRAPHIES OF RESTRAINT AND RESISTANCE
Curated by Zeina
52 mins
Sunday November 30, 2025 - 7:30 pm
Millennium Film Workshop, 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237
CHOREOGRAPHIES OF RESTRAINT AND RESISTANCE is a film program bringing together video works that explore the body as a dancing entity caught between occupation and oppression. From VHS dance tutorials smuggled into post-revolution Iran, to an abstract, glitch-filled glimpse of raves in California and bachelors’ parties in the West Bank and finally the Ghost Dance as a kinetic drawing that is preserved through early film in the face of Indigenous resistance. Each work positions dance as more than individual movement, but as a lifeline, a way to remain human, alive, and in motion despite entrenched political restrictions on the body, and as a form of collective defiance that carries histories of survival forward.