''Elimination Dance'' is a 1998 Canadian short drama film. Directed by
Bruce McDonald,
Don McKellar
Don McKellar (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
He is known for directing and writing th ...
and
Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller P ...
based on Ondaatje's poem of the same name, the film stars McKellar and
Tracy Wright
Tracy Wright (December 7, 1959 – June 22, 2010) was a Canadian actress who was known for her stage and film performances, as well as her presence in Canada's avant-garde for over 20 years.
Career
In 1989, she was a founding member of the Toron ...
as a couple in a jazz dance competition, in which various couples are eliminated as the announcer (
Michael Turner) calls out various elimination criteria drawn from Ondaatje's poem.
Other people appearing in the film as non-speaking dancers include
Meryn Cadell
Meryn Cadell is an American-Canadian writer and performance artist. He is an assistant professor of song lyrics and libretto writing in the Creative Writing Program at University of British Columbia.
Cadell is a transgender man who transitioned ...
,
Carole Pope
Carole Ann Pope (born 6 August 1950) is a British-born Canadian rock singer-songwriter, whose provocative blend of hard-edged new wave rock with explicit homoerotic and BDSM-themed lyrics made her one of the first openly lesbian entertainers t ...
,
,
Valerie Buhagiar
Valerie Buhagiar (born May 12, 1964) is a Maltese-Canadian actress, film director and television host.
She studied acting at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, graduating in 1986. Her debut as a filmmaker was ''The Passion of Rita Camill ...
,
Chas Lawther,
Anna Stratton,
Duke Redbird
Dr.Duke Redbird (born 1939) is an Indigenous Canadian poet, journalist, activist, businessman, actor and administrator, best known as a key figure in the development of First Nations literature in Canada.
An Ojibwe from the Saugeen First Nation i ...
,
Ryan Black,
Esta Spalding,
Leah Cherniak,
James Allodi
James Allodi (born February 26, 1967) is a Canadian actor, writer and director.
Career
James Allodi earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with a Major in Film, from New York University. Since then, the writer, director, and actor has amassed an impres ...
and
Clement Virgo
Clement Virgo (born June 1, 1966) is a Canadian film and television writer, producer and director who runs the production company, Conquering Lion Pictures, with producer Damon D'Oliveira. Virgo is best known for co-writing and directing an adapt ...
.
The film premiered at the
1998 Toronto International Film Festival
The 23rd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 10 to September 19, 1998. A total of 311 films were screened during the ten-day festival, commencing with the opening gala, ''The Red Violin''.
Awards
Programmes
Gala Opening Nigh ...
.
The film was a
Genie Award nominee for
Best Live Action Short Drama at the
19th Genie Awards
The 19th Genie Awards were held on February 4, 1999 to honour Canadian films released in 1998. It marked only the second time in the 1990s, after the 16th Genie Awards in January 1996, that the awards were held in the winter of the year ''followin ...
in 1999.
"Major Genie nominees"
''Vancouver Sun
The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network. Published s ...
'', December 8, 1998.
References
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1998 films
1998 short films
Canadian drama short films
Canadian dance films
Films directed by Bruce McDonald
Films directed by Don McKellar
Films based on poems
English-language Canadian films
1990s English-language films
1990s Canadian films
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