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
Story by: Lorris Eichinger
Artistic Director: Lorris Eichinger
Director: Natasha Adorlee & Max Sachar
Producer: Theresa Knudson
Cinematography: Ben Tarquin
Lighting: Isaac Pingree
Director of Movement: Lorris Eichinger
Edit & Sound: Matthew Evearitt & Natasha
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
Special Thank you to 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
Choreographers
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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.
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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
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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
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Sunny Winn
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Luella Nandra
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Charmaine Butcher
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Alaja Badalich
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D. Calhoun
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Liam Fleming