Welcome to The Dancers’ Short Film Festival!
This is a new short film festival created by an Independent Dance Film maker and choreographer who shares and understands your passions.
The aim is to create an atmosphere where film makers, choreographers and dancers can meet and exchange ideas and experiences. We are looking for choreography conceived for film under 10 minutes in length. Films should have a very high dance content using digital media to enhance the story or theme of the choreographic intention. We hope that the creators of as many of the selected films as possible will be able to attend the screening in London.
Whatever your budget or resources, we appreciate your dance inspired artistic endeavours. Student entries very welcome. Send us your films, we are looking forward to viewing them and screening them!
Festival Director: Ysabelle Taylor
I am retired! But I found that in my case, I could take the dancer away from the Dance; but I can't take the Dance away from the dancer. So somehow my creative spirit keeps finding new projects.
Ysabelle trained as a dancer at the Royal Ballet School in London and performed many solo and principal roles over ten years with the Royal Swedish Ballet, Scapino Ballet Amsterdam, Dublin City Ballet and Düsseldorf Ballet. Her first choreographies were for company workshops with Scapino Ballet and the Royal Swedish Ballet.
Awarded a prize for choreography at the International Ballet Competition in Helsinki, her commissions include works for Ballet Cymru in Wales, the Royal Ballet Educational Unit, London Studio Centre, Rambert School and Irish National Youth Ballet.
As a tutor for the Royal Academy of Dance Ysabelle travelled worldwide teaching and choreographing for RAD summer schools and also tutoring teachers’ courses. Alongside her freelance work, she ran her own ballet school for 30 years in Beckenham, South London.
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She has published three books including a dance autobiography Europe On My Toes.
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In 2021, in collaboration with the filmmaker Alice Pennefather, she produced an award winning short dance film of her choreography Birdsong. This turned into a new adventure exploring the world of dance on screen and new short dance film productions.