Salt Water II (Abe Abraham, USA 2016)

Salt Water II 2016 9m Director/Choreographer Abe Abraham Director of Photography Frank Prinzi Camera Operators Liam Lee, Doug Shannon Edition Abe Abraham Featured Dancers Mark Caserta, Megumi Eda, Gabrielle Lambm and Desmond Richardson Productor Abanar, David Marden, Veanne Cox, Joe Goldman, and John Ousting ¿...barely knowable soul, swift as an eel escaping the slit mesh.¿ This excerpt from Peter Campion¿s poem ¿Salt Water¿ is the inspiration for this dance-film featuring the world renowned Desmond Richardson. BIo Abe Abraham is the artistic director of Abanar, a dance company that creates choreography for the camera. Mr. Abraham received his BFA in Dance form the Tisch School for the Arts at New York University. Mr. Abraham¿s work features dancers from some of the leading dance companies in the world, including New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Complexions. Dutch National Ballet, and Les Grand Ballet Canadiens. His films have been presented by the Dance Films Association, The Perfrorming Arts Library (Lincoln Center), the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y, Symphony Space, Theatre 80, and JACK. Film Festival selections include PAMA, 3rd Braga International Video Dance Festival, International Music Video Underground, and Rome Independent Prisma Awards. In October 2013, The New York Times called Abraham¿s ¿Wind and Tree¿ a renaissance painting filled with ¿elegant shadowy shots of fragmented body parts and twisted limbs paired with eerie seismographic recordings of the earth¿s vibration.¿. Eye on Dance called Mr. Abraham¿s most recent film Salt Water ¿...achingly beautiful, sensually alive and blissfully calm.¿