FLY - Sidney Leoni"FLY" is a solo-dance-docu-fiction-film by the french choreographer and dancer Sidney Leoni that follows American actress Gena Rowlands, together with her husband director John Cassevetes, in the making of a movie centered on Russian ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky. On stage and on screen, "FLY" also follows director and performer Sidney Leoni, whose itinerary gets revealed by the encounter with artists and artworks that have strongly influenced him in his life, inviting the spectator to swirl into his imaginary world, along with him.
Duration: 1h30min. Produced, directed, edited, and performed live by Sidney Leoni Starring Elias Girod as Vaslav Nijinsky; Halla Ólafsdóttir as Gena Rowlands as Romola De Pulszky; John Cassevetes as himself; Manon Santkin as Bronislava Nijinska; Olivier Valkeners as Freddie Mercury; Eleanor Bauer as Monserrat Caballe Also featuring Alexandra Cismondi, Andros-Zins Browne, Christina Vantzou, Christine de Smedt, Dolores Hulan, Estelle Gautier, Guillem Mont De Palol, Jaime Llopis, Mette Ingvartsen, Steven Wendt, Stina Nyberg & Zoë Poluch Original music score & songs written by Yoann Durant & Sidney Leoni Cinematographer Artur Castro Freire 1st assistant camera Félix Moy 2nd camera unit Hoang-Son Doan 1st assistant camera 2nd unit Alexandre Cabanne Sound engineers: Alban Cayrol, Hélène Clerc-Denizot, Aymeric de Palol & Aïda Merghoub Art director Sidney Leoni Standby art director René Leoni Stage design for live performance David Prokopic, Anton Andersson & Jan Fedinger First production assistants Estelle Gautier & Amandine Bigot Costume designers Sidney Leoni, Rachel Lesteven & Marie Davin Assistants costume designers: Jennifer Defays, Leila Bouzalmad & Quentin Levionnois Make up: Valko Hair designer and wigs: Mathilde Wallez Stevenson & Sidney Leoni A project coproduced by: Weld (Stockholm), Inkonst (Malmö), Kunstencentrum Buda (Kortrijk) & Le Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen (in the frame of l’accueil-studio/Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication) Also created in residency at Dansehallerne (Copenhaguen), Pact Zollverein (Essen), Kunstencentrum STUK (Leuven) & Howest – ‘The level’/ Campus for Digital Arts and Entertainment (Kortrijk) Administration: The artist cooperative Interim kultur (Stockholm) FLY is co-financed by The Swedish Arts Council, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, The City of Stockholm & Sidney Leoni, and is supported by L’Institut Français in Sweden and Arts Promotion Centre Finland. Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm |