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Danse Macabre Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
9 minutes ■ 2009 ■ Canada 7 minutes ■ 2009 ■ USA ■ In Competition
Friday 12:40p
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Saturday 6:40p
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Sunday 9:40p Saturday 10:10a
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Sunday 12:40p
Plays in: Short Stories (p50) Plays in: Family Shorts (p13)
Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer/Editor: Pedro Pires ■ Producers: Catherine Director/Animator: Peter List ■ Producers: Paul Gagne, Mo Williams ■ Executive Producer:
Chagnon, Pedro Pires ■ Principal Cast: AnneBruce Falconer ■
dansemacabre-film.com Linda Lee ■ Screenwriter: Mo Williams ■ Editor: Paul Gagne ■ Music/Composers: Scotty Huff,
Robert Reynolds ■ Principal Cast: Jan Scieszka, Mo Williams ■
scholastic.com/westonwoods
This beautifully photographed experimental dance film is based
shorts
on a concept by Robert Lepage. Set in the haunting location of a When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely
morgue, a corpse stirs and contorts in a final macabre ballet. Are volunteer springs up to take his place—a pigeon! But you’ve
these spasms merely erratic motions or do they echo the chaotic never met one like this before. Based on the acclaimed children’s
twists and turns of a past life? [adult content] book.
Pedro Pires Peter List
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Director’s Statement
Statement From Writer/Narrator Mo Williams
I think, for me, the innovation of the break-
I was trying to make something unique
through was when I first came up with the
where the dance performer is the dead body.
idea there was this little boy and the pigeon,
It’s a taboo, people don’t want to hear about
and it was the little boy’s job to not let the
death and dead bodies. Everything was real,
pigeon drive the bus. And I realized that I
except the dancer, of course. I think that we
could just get rid of the middleman and then the audience could
must face death so we can appreciate life
have the part of that little boy and would be a lot more fun and,
even more each day. We have life but death is at the other side
in a sense, easier to draw.
and we are at the middle of something. I think we must have
both sides to fully appreciate life.
Filmography: Madam President, Leonardo the Terrible Monster
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