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Choreographer Ryan Heffington and Adam Freeland cast repetitive movement into the Mojave Desert

Choreographer Ryan Heffington ventures into the Mojave Desert through repetitive movement for the short dance film Twister – accompanying British producer Adam Freeland’s track of the same name. Allowing physical gestures to evolve into absurd, humorous ideas, trance-like states of movement synchronize with the track’s shifting rhythms, celebrating the strangeness of the California desert landscape, while quietly satirizing the human urge to lose oneself within it. Captured over an ambitious two-day shoot, with locations 82 miles apart, Heffington invites the environment to become a rhythmic layer within the music, positioning the setting as both dangerous and serene, and an additional framework for his choreography. Seeking performers who appear to have lived a life, at one with the earth, Heffington cast friends Jesse Kovarsky, Austin Westbay and Danny Dolan to portray individual journeys through dance – representing ritual, dedication, and expression against natural safe spaces carved from the desert typology... read more at nowness.com _______________________________________ Subscribe to NOWNESS here: http://bit.ly/youtube-nowness Like NOWNESS on Facebook: http://bit.ly/facebook-nowness Follow NOWNESS on Twitter: http://bit.ly/twitter-nowness Daily exclusives for the culturally curious: http://bit.ly/nowness-com Behind the scenes on Instagram: http://bit.ly/instagram-nowness Staff Picks on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/vimeo-nowness