MADE BY WOMEN
FILM NIGHT
PROGRAM
Noelle Kayser x Open Space Dance
Director + Choreographer: Noelle Kayser
Director of Photography + Editor: Matthew Tomac
Dancer: Bree Kostelnik
Dancer: Audrey Wells
Costume Designer: Amanda Gladu
Production Assistant: Sophia Mladineo
Producer: Open Space Dance
Producer: Regional Arts & Culture Council
Description: "dust" is a dance film that explores themes of legacy and mortality in the cycle of intergenerational caregiving. It pays tribute to the compassion, reciprocity, and unconditional love present as we guide one another into and out of this life. It depicts the experience of caring for my father as he died of cancer.
Ashtar Muallem
Director and Dancer: Ashtar Muallem
Singer: Ahlam Layous Tuma
Camera: Ashrad Dowani
Sound: Adonis Bondek
Editor: Loay Awwad
Production: Ashtar Muallem, Ashraf Dowani
Description: "Land of Denied Rituals" is a short experimental film inspired by Palestinian women's death rituals—songs, dances, and gestures. Through movement and embodiment, I reinterpret these disappearing traditions, transforming them before the camera. This work revives endangered rituals through physical language, reclaiming collective grief as expression and resistance. The film presents an untold strand of Palestinian heritage in a narrative that shifts between past and memory, presence and absence. By embodying these vanishing cultural practices, I create a space where Palestinian heritage lives on through art, turning loss into cultural preservation and resistance.
EVA JULLIERE
Choreographer & dancer: Eva Julliere
Editor: Guillaume Georges
Cinematographer: Sebastien Abes
Composer: Amante Amato.
Description: Intervalle du Vide is an instantaneous composition of life, where every gesture and posture dialogues with the invisible. This performance explores our relationships to ourselves, others, and society through sensitive, intuitive scenes.
In my choreographic work, I draw inspiration from the films of Paolo Sorrentino and Yorgos Lanthimos, capturing fleeting moments of presence and vulnerability. This entire ambiance blends revisited mythology, visual theater, and deconstructed narration, all within an aesthetic marked by photography.
HANNAH STRANEY
Director: Joe Hill
Writer & Producer: Hannah Straney
Director of Photography: Jake Kruty
Original Composition: Ryan Wolfe
Cast: Hannah Straney & Asha Benjelloun
Description: Directed by 5x Emmy award winning director Joe Hill, Don’t Leave Me follows two women deeply in love, who start to experience the dangers of losing themselves in each other. Don’t Leave Me is a visualization of the choice between yourself or your relationship.
FRANCESCA ARI
Creator: Francesca Ari
Description: Self Portrait | Videoperformance | 2012 | 3'59" | Audio stereo
Dorian Gray, in Oscar Wilde’s tale, imprisons his shame within his portrait to protect himself from the transience of beauty.
In contrast, Francesca Arri outlines her own portrait in a video where she mocks her image in the mirror, pointing at it in a gesture that is both a warning and a challenge—to herself and to others.
Her laughter draws us in, then unsettles and provokes. Does the performer expose her own shame, or ours?
Is she laughing at herself or at her viewers?
The grotesque image of our times is reflected in the lens of a video camera.
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NOELLE KAYSER x OPEN SPACE DANCE
ASHTAR MUALLEM
FRANCESCA ARRI
EVA JULLIERE
HANNAH STRANEY
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JESS SMITH
CHELSA AINSWORTH
MONICA NYENKAN
KE’RON WILSON
JOYBOY
LAUREN FLACK
MITSUKO
CLARKE-VERDERY
ANYA
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JESS SMITH
CHELSA AINSWORTH
CHING-I CHANG
SARAH NICHOLS
LAUREN FLACK
MONICA NYENKAN
BRYN BRIDGEN
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MADE BY WOMEN 2026 EVENTS
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MARCH 12 & 13 | 6:30PM & 8:30PM
Dual Rivet is excited to host their 6th annual MADE BY WOMEN Festival highlighting women choreographers, filmmakers, and creators. The 3-day festival includes FILM NIGHT, 4 LIVE PERFORMANCES, and a WORKSHOP! 6 Festival Choreographers will be selected for the LIVE PERFORMANCES.
2026 CHOREOGRAPHERS
MARCH 12 | PROG A
Evelyn Tejeda
Ally Ng
Hannah GroveMARCH 13 | PROG B
Nia Davis
Shoshana Sklar
Heather Dutton | Middle Child Dance Theatre -
MARCH 14 | 10AM - 5PM
MADE BY WOMEN is excited to host this high intensity, 7-hour workshop in honor of our Festivals 5th year! The workshop will dive deep into floorwork, partnering, movement exploration and theatrical exploration/character development at the Joyce Studios. Dual Rivet is excited to bring on guest teachers Chantelle Good & Ingrid Kapteyn for this year’s workshop!
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MARCH 14 | Doors open at 7PM
This year features a new experiential FILM NIGHT (7pm doors - Ticketed), where audiences move through multiple transformed rooms, each inspired by the selected artists through color, texture, and environment. The films will run three times, with audience groups rotating through each room on a timed schedule. We will wrap the night and the entire festival weekend with a celebratory CLOSING PARTY (8:30pm - FREE)!
2026 FILMMAKERS
Noelle Kayser x Open Space Dance
Ashtar Muallem
Eva Julliere
Hannah Straney
Francesca Arri -
MARCH 14 | 8:30PM
JOIN US in celebrating the 2026 MADE BY WOMEN Festival Artists and the closing of our 2026 Festival weekend! The incredible DJ FLWRSHRK will lead us into a party with donation based drinks, incredible giveaways, and a celebration of women in the arts.