Intimité Révélée

Intimité Révélée

A short dance film for queer people, with queer people, about queer people.

Made in collaboration with the San Francisco Dance Film Festival

Artistic Director: Lorris Eichinger

Story by: Lorris Eichinger

Director: Natasha Adorlee

Executive Producer: San Francisco Dance Film Festival

Producer: Theresa Knudson

Cinematography: Ben Tarquin

Lighting: Isaac Pingree

Director of Movement: Lorris Eichinger

Editing: Natasha Adorlee and Ben Tarquin

Sound: Ben Tarquin

Co-Choreographers: Lorris Eichinger, Hope Mohr, Olivia Evans

Executive Production: Ballet22

Collaborating Artists: D. Calhoun, Liam Fleming, Sunny Winn, Luella Nandra, Charmaine Butcher, Alaja Badalich

Set Photographer: Robert Suguitan

Production Assistant: Bryon Roman

Consultant: Max Sachar

Special Thank you to San Francisco Dance Film Festival, A16, Maya Harr, Madeline DeVries

"In a dance world that continues to operate in a binary way and driven by heteronormative stories, iconography, and esthetics, “Intimité Révélée” intends to show scenes of intimacy between queer couples through dance, to normalize what queer love could look like on stage and in dance film. This work provides representation for LGBTQIA+ community in dance film."

- Lorris Eichinger, film Artistic Director

Lorris Eichinger with Film Director Natasha Adorlee & Co-Choreographer Hope Mohr

"The dancers show slice-of-life moments that seem ordinary for cisgender heteronormative couples, but are unfortunately perceived by wider society as abnormal for queer people. At a time when LGBTQIA+ rights are attacked on all fronts, this film intends to show the humanity and harmless normalcy of queer people evolving in a world that is still hostile to them."

-Lorris Eichinger

  • Lorris Eichinger

    Artistic Director, Story, Co-Choreographer

    Lorris Eichinger (he/they) started training in Grenoble at the National Conservatory and continued at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Danse de Marseille. After training at The School of American Ballet in New York from 2010 to 2013, Eichinger joined the Professional Division program of the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle. He then moved back to France to dance with the Jeune Ballet de Lyon. Eichinger danced with De Dutch Don’t Dance in the Netherlands in 2015, and then moved to Israel to join Kamea Dance Company in 2016. He joined LINES Ballet in 2019.

  • Natasha Adorlee

    Director, Editor

    NATASHA ADORLEE is an Emmy Award-winning choreographer, filmmaker, composer, and educator in San Francisco, CA. A first-generation Asian American woman.

    Natasha began choreographing in 2014 while maintaining an award-winning dance career with ODC/Dance, Kate Weare and Co., and The San Francisco Symphony. After winning over ten international awards for her acclaimed short film "Take Your Time" in 2018, she has been a sought-after filmmaker, choreographer, and composer ever since.

    She attended SUNY Purchase and graduating from UC Berkeley, Natasha was invited to join ODC/Dance. Natasha is a prolific choreographer and has been commissioned to create for Joffrey Ballet's Winning Works, Kansas City Ballet, BalletX, Ceprodac (Mexico), Kawaguchi Ballet (Japan), Ballare Carmel, Ballet22, Jacob's Pillow, and Imagery. In addition to working for dance companies, Natasha has created original work for Pixar Animation Studios, Occulus, National Geographic, and New Yorker Magazine.

  • Ben Tarquin

    Cinematogragher, Editor

    An international videographer, editor, and sound producer at the intersection of the classical arts, street arts, and urban dance. Based part of the year in Japan and part of the year in his hometown Oakland, CA, Tarquin uses visual and electronic media to synthesize movement, light, and acoustics into new and evocative artistic expression.

    Tarquin grew up to the sounds of the Oakland underground before studying architecture at La Villette in Paris, France. His experience in design led him over the last decade to help build YAK Films into an internationally acclaimed video production company capturing new forms of street dance emerging from the United States, Europe, and Asia. Tarquin collaborated with high-profile artists like Lil' Buck and Les Twins on projects for clients like Sony, Redbull, Adidas, Yonex and Apple.

    His more recent freelance camera work expands beyond street dance to produce music videos, short films, and commercials.

  • Hope Mohr

    Co-Choreographer

    Hope Mohr (she/her) is an artist and advocate. As a dancer, Mohr trained at S.F. Ballet School and on scholarship at the Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown Studios in New York City. She performed in the companies of dance pioneers Lucinda Childs and Trisha Brown. As a choreographer, Mohr makes work that “conveys emotional and socio-political contents that ride just underneath the surface of a rigorous vocabulary.” (Dance View Times). Her dances have been presented by Movement Research at Judson Church (NYC), 18th Street Arts Center (LA), Highways Performance Space (LA), Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art (Sonoma), Moody Center for the Arts (Houston), and in the Bay Area at SFMOMA, ODC Theater, Counterpulse, ICA San Francisco, 836M Gallery, Mills Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. hopemohr.org

  • Olivia Evans

    Co-Choreographer

    Olivia Evans (she/her) is a multimedia artist whose work intends to accentuate the sensationally unique voices of everyone she works with. As a queer woman, she feels a strong desire to explore the qualities of individuals’ identities that are considered non-comformative to the traditional dance world; through this exploration, she hopes to make dance and art more accessible to those who may not know how to approach it. Olivia has set work on dozens of her peers throughout her time in various education programs, most recently including the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program, from which she graduated in May 2023. She has also recently collaborated with ZK Gallery and Mark Foehringer Dance Project, and her work in dance film has been presented by festivals including San Francisco Dance Film Festival and Inspired Dance Australia.

Collaborating Artists

  • Sunny Winn

  • Luella Nandra

  • Charmaine Butcher

  • Alaja Badalich

  • D. Calhoun

  • Liam Fleming

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