And Then We Danced
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Neutral, kinetic, measured dance / queer, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Merab, a devoted dancer, has been training for years with his partner Mary for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of another male dancer, Irakli, sparks both an intense rivalry and romantic desire that may cause Merab to risk his future in dance as well as his relationships.
Our read · And Then We Danced (2019) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded dance · queer · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of And Then We Danced
What watching it is actually like.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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