Performance / Dance Film
The Village Dance Academy: Sockeye
A multi-year performance-film collaboration where music, light, shadow and camera movement turn The Village Dance Academy's Sockeye choreography into screen work.
Production fact
Public Sockeye releases span 2023, 2024 and 2025, with James Alton leading direction, production, cinematography and editing, and KFS credited as producer on the 2025 film.
Recognition
Festival and industry proof connected to this project.
- Official Selection — Okanagan Screen Awards, 2024
Public sources
Finished videos, press and official context.
Credit-rich description. Use it as a source record, but keep public website copy summarized instead of turning youth performers and choreographers into a crew-style block.
Finished Video 2024 SockeyePublic film has no YouTube description, but the local end-credit export is readable and logged in the source registry. Keep public copy summarized.
Finished Video 2023 SockeyePublic film has no YouTube description, but the local end-credit export is readable and logged in the source registry. Keep public copy summarized.
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2025 Sockeye Dance Film
A public example from the continuing Sockeye collaboration with The Village Dance Academy. The annual films keep detailed performer and choreographer credits with their video descriptions and end-credit source files; this KFS page keeps the public copy focused on production, camera, lighting, editing and delivery.
Field note
What the production needed.
Create a polished annual film for Sockeye, The Village Dance Academy's elite graduating ensemble, that could honour the dancers' skill while giving the work a cinematic life beyond the stage.
Field note
Where the day could break.
The pieces needed to preserve choreography, formation and ensemble precision while adding screen language: dramatic light, shadow, camera movement, rhythm and location changes that would amplify the dancers rather than distract from them.
Field note
Turning the plan into a working set.
KFS and James built the films around controlled visual ideas for each year. The 2023 film opens with hand movement, shadows and backlight before widening into the full dance world; later films push colour, haze, camera movement and edit rhythm while keeping the ensemble readable.
Field note
What left the production.
The Sockeye films became a public-facing record of the ensemble's graduating years and a proof point for performance work where lighting, camera, music and editing are shaped as part of the choreography.
KFS services
- Performance production
- Direction and producing
- Camera and lighting
- Editing
- Music-driven pacing
- Public video delivery
Production proof
Set photos, BTS and physical context.
A fast scroll through the real day: people, gear, rooms, load-ins and location texture. These are proof-of-life images before they are polished portfolio images.
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