About Dancing
Lecklin Johanna
A story of a young girl’s development into a ballet dancer. A personal contemplation on the conflict between girly dreams and the hard everyday work of a dancer.
Production Year
2000
Duration
00:06:07
Tyyppi
Asiasana
anxiety, ballet (art forms), body image, dance films, dancers, dreams (aspirations), experimental films, families, girls, group dynamics, growth, health, identity (mental objects), media art, memories (mental objects), personal narrative, portraits (works of art ), video art, women, work
Original Title
About Dancing
English Title
About Dancing
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Johanna Lecklin (Author), Johanna Lecklin (Director)
Press Photos
Johanna Lecklin (b. 1972) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2003 and studied in London at the Slade School of Fine Art, in UCL. Lecklin works with video and photography. Her video work is based on documentary, narrativity and performativity. Lecklin’s works have been presented in numerous exhibitions in Finland and abroad, including the City States exhibition at Liverpool Biennial (2010) and It’s a Setup at Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma in Helsinki (2010).
28 works