Frame Rush

Screendance Festival 2026

A woman against an orange background wearing an orange costume holding an orange jelly to her face.
Photo by Hertta Kiiski

About Frame Rush

Frame Rush is an annual festival of screendance curated by MA Screendance students from London Contemporary Dance School.

This year's edition demonstrates the global diversity within dance, filmmaking, and bold artistic experimentation. The festival brings together emerging and international artists whose work explores play, politics, surrealism, and empathy through the body.

The Graduate Screening presents works made by the MA Screendance 2025 cohort, whose films offer insight into the broad range of approaches to film structure in contemporary dance film practice.

The International Screening presents works made by international artists, whose films centre around ritual in both personal and cultural contexts.

Both screenings will be followed by a Q&A with participating filmmakers, offering the opportunity to connect with artists and researchers engaged in the field of screendance. Designed for both specialist and curious audiences alike, Frame Rush 2026 aims to create space for dialogue and discovery.

Frame Rush encapsulated a world of physical expression, storytelling and visual symbolism. From large scale productions to DIY films, I felt reassured by this experience of the notion that creativity is universal.

Dance Art Journal, Frame Rush 2024 festival

programme

Graduate screening
  • Free for the Night by Alexandra Bechikh
  • Currents by Alexandra Rose Turner
  • It's more than just bricks and mortar by Becky Johnson
  • The Cherry by Eimyn Cheung
  • My Friends by Fanshu Vikki Xu
  • The being of a woman by Jacy Keddie
  • Four Interpretations of a Scene by Jessie Lee Thorne
  • Bargains Made by Riley Castellanet Roberts
  • Half a Mask by Tacy Xintian Zhao
International screening
  • SEARCH by Alice Wonderwood and Marie Forbes
  • La Superstición del Huevo by Darmyn Calderon
  • Naval Ode by Fu LE
  • Jellymama by Hertta Kiiski
  • 《Unspun Flesh, Unburned Shell 《 by Jiang Wei
  • Parada by Myca Guinchoma
  • THE WEIGHT by Vanessa Rose

Credits

Frame rush 2026

Frame Rush is directed and produced collaboratively by the MA Screendance 2026 Cohort.

Programming and Creative Direction: MA Screendance Cohort 2026

Artist Liaison: GengYao Li

Audience and Ticketing: Mahan Abtahi

Event Production: Kenneth Ka Chun Hui

Marketing: Kat Bark

Finance: Ruiyang Xie

Technical Production: Sonja Petermann

Marketing and Production Mentoring: Oddalys Salcido

Frame Rush Producer / Unit Leader: Gitta Wigro

  • Two people sit side by side at a breakfast table in a kitchen, both wrapped in duvets. One person's face is completely obscured by the duvet, while the other’s face is partially visible, showing a tired, distant expression. The scene has a subdued, muted atmosphere, with a sense of quiet discomfort.
  • Two performers are captured in a dynamic acrobatic movement inside a stark concrete structure. One performer, wearing a rust-coloured overall, crouches low while supporting a second performer dressed in black, whose body is inverted and wrapped around them. The pair hold each other tightly as they balance, creating a sculptural, intertwined shape. The setting is an empty, unfinished corridor with repeating concrete frames receding into the distance.
  • View from inside a crowded vehicle looking toward the open rear entrance. Passengers sit along both sides, many looking at their phones. A woman stands outside at the doorway, facing in, with a bag over one shoulder. A busy street is visible behind her.
  • A person with long dark hair sits on the floor facing four figures dressed in dark, tattered clothing. The four figures stand bent forward with their heads lowered, forming a line in front of sheer draped fabric. One figure has a bundle of rope or cords hanging over their shoulder. The image is monochrome, with a sparse stage-like setting and a strong contrast between the seated figure and the group.

Choose dates and book

  • : Graduate Screening. Book Now

  • : International Screening. Book Now