Bone (2005 film)
Bone is a 48-minute 2005 documentary AbOUT the first modern dance co-production between Canada and China, directed and choreographed by Nadine Thouin (Go-On Productions/ formerly Snell Thouin Project) in collaboration with the Beijing Modern Dance Company. The film was directed by Mila Aung-Thwin of EyeSteelFilm production company and produced by EyeSteelFilm. It had its premier at Bravo! specialty television channel.
The documentary joins the vision of Montreal's "Snell Thouin Project" with the extraordinary talents of Willy Tsao and the Beijing Modern Dance Company. In this first ever China-Canada dance co-production, the documentary Bone follows the intertwined trajectories of lovers through an elemental landscape of heartache. The film based on the performance marries a new-wave filmmaking style with natural and surreal landscapes (inspired and taken from the original projected videos of Nadine Thouin) as it documents the coming together of this east-west production.
China Times published in Beijing, China called the performance "a symphony of Life...in the performance of Chinese and Canadian artists, we witness a sort of artistic pulling force, which may well become the future direction of art..."