A boy plays hide-and-seek in an east London market.

A game of hide-and-seek in an east London market becomes a portrait of a young boy. Elyas ducks, dives, slips and slides his way through the crowds of people.

Dancer – Elyas Addo
Director and Choreographer – Katy Pendlebury
Offline Editor – Dominik Rippl
Cameraman – Dominik Rippl
Original Music – Nima Tehranchi
Cello – Joanna Quail
Online Editor – Nicki Lang

Festivals:

Dance On Screen, The Place, London, November 2006 – Winner, Emerging Filmmaker’s Production Award. Reeldance International Dance On Film Festival 2008, Melbourne, Australia and the Reeldance touring programme to cities in Australia and New Zealand, Cinedans Amsterdam 2008

Screenings:

Live Screen at Sadler’s Wells February 2007, Moving Virtual Bodies 2007 (touring programme to cities in Italy curated by Gitta Wigro & supported by the British Council), Trip the Light Fanstastic Toe artist’s cabaret curated by Guiliana Majo and Jose Vidal, London Spring 2009

Awards:

Winner, Emerging Filmmaker’s Production Award, Dance On Screen, The Place, November 2006

elyas is one part of a triptych of dance portraits which make up the film Trace.