Screening: 'And Then We Danced' (dir. Levin Akin, 2019)

Part of the REEES/Slavic Grad Film series "Bordenlens: Queer Outlines of Geography and Gender."

Merab is a dedicated young dancer at the Georgian National Ensemble in Tbilisi. His personal and artistic life follow the gender norms for young men in Georgian society, although he struggles to conform to the standard performance of masculinity in traditional dance roles. One day, the dance group is joined by Irakli. Irakli’s talent and exuberance will have him replace Merab in the choreography. After a short initial animosity, Merab and Irakli will start getting closer and closer as the rehearsals go on. Their bond will evolve in surprising ways leading them to nurture and invent new vocabularies of intimacy and artistic forms of expression.
Directed by Levan Akin, a Georgian-born director from Sweden, the film makes a statement in support of the 2013 anti-homophobic rallies against the Georgian Orthodox Church in Tbilisi. Its screenings themselves

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (OWNER)

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