Odeon

Is a dance film created and produced by Meghann Michalsky.

Odeon features two performers who have been placed in an arena where they were left behind to begin again. 

They are dealing with a state of emergency - an end-of-world apocalypse. The landscape is bare, broken - only the performers and sand in sight.  They are distraught, crumbling, and panicking about their survival on their quest for water. 

An allegory of longing for something so much that we lose sight of what is currently happening. When we arrive – the destination feels different from what we expected or dreamt of. The performers surrender the sins of humanity and prevail with an innate understanding of both past and present. 

However, is Odeon a spectacle that "will repeat again"?

Odeon comments on survival, evolution, mutation, human extinction, environmental devastation, water crisis, capitalist mindset, apocalyptic warnings, grappling with our place in this collapsing world, and the spectacle of control.

Producer: Meghann Michalsky

Choreographer / Director: Meghann Michalsky 

Dancers: Meghann Michalsky & Katherine Semchuk

Arts & Crafts Director Yukon: Chandler Smith

Editor: Brittney Canda

Cinematographer: Tyler Cave

Costume/Prop Design: Angela Dale & Meghann Michalsky

Composer: Darren Young

Crew: Chandler Smith, Caitlin Unrau

Camera Assistant Yukon: Caitlin Unrau (Sentient Forms)

Dramaturge: Mike Czuba, Chandler Smith 

Photographer: Sentient Forms

Assistant Administrator: Emily Losier 

Filmed in British Colombia (Tlaoquiaht traditional territory) and Yukon (Taa'an Kwächän and the Kwanlin Dün), Canada

Supported By

Canada Council for the Arts

Thank you to Liris and Luke Smith for their generous support

Review
Odeon was not just a dance film, it was an experience. Breathtaking, heart wrenchingly beautiful. It captivated me with its beauty and story.