Cheshire Dance are delighted to announce that our new film, ‘When we meet… 5 dances’ is an Official Selection for the 2025 Big Syn International Film Festival, London, the world’s biggest sustainability film festival!

Our film has been selected as part of a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals commitment at the world’s biggest sustainability film festival #bigsynfilmfest25

‘When we meet… 5 dances’ is a powerful short dance film created by Sam Ryley (Canteencreate) and composer Gary Lloyd (Company Carpi) at the end of the second year of Wanna Dance? Artist-in Residencies in 2024.

Set to an original, emotionally rich score, the film features Johnny, Vicky, Dylan, Leon and Beth in duets with dance artists, Ruth and Jane, creating collaborative choreography rooted in empathy, attentiveness, and embodied communication.

Through shared presence, eye contact, gesture, breath and pause, the film invites the audience to witness personalities revealed, showing that trust, respect, and choice can be powerfully conveyed without words.

This is not performance imposed, but dance emerging from mutual understanding. Each frame honours the dignity and creativity of people too often spoken for rather than listened to.

The film challenges assumptions about communication.

It also challenges assumptions of what dance can be.

We can’t wait to share the film at this year’s festival!

Find out more about #bigsynfilmfest25 here.