Carry me home
Return Dance Project presents a new feature-length dance film and documentary
Synopsis: Four sisters are sent on an ancestral mission to celebrate, collect and protect the sacred four elements of Earth, Fire, Water & Air. Their mission takes them across the globe, dancing with diverse sacred lands and experiencing rich abundance followed by loss, disconnection, and change when they forget their mission, abandon the Earth, and turn away from each other. Finding themselves alone in a barren landscape, the sisters work to reunite and carry forth the elements needed to plant the seed of hope.
Filmed in six stunning natural locations on native land, currently known as Utah:
Pando Aspen Grove
Escalante National Monument
Ibex Well
Singing Canyon
Deer Creek Trail
Calf Creek
becoming part of the land again
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Praise Matters
In Return Dance Project, we honor experience over product. The emotions, connections and true healing we experienced during the shooting of this film was our main priority. We consider the film to be a bi-product of our healing experience, dancing in connection with the land and Her natural elements. With our dances, we salute the Earth, cultivate friendship, and reconnect with ourselves through the healing powers of dance and nature.
We dance to connect, we dance to renew. We aim to become part of the land again and re-learn how to have a conversation with the Earth. As Martin Prechtel writes, we are making “grief-based beauty,” bringing our bodies and bare feet into direct connection with the land, to dance in communication, praise and grief. We dance to re-stitch our relationship with Mother Earth.
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100% Original music
The music you hear in Carry Me Home was composed and produced by the filmmakers themselves.
The film features music from Samba Fogo’s recently debuted album, O Fogo Brilha (The Fire Shines), composed by the Creative Director of the film, Lorin Hansen and her husband Mason Aeschbacher.
Carry Me Home also features songs from the Album Voices of Nature by Rosangela Silvestre, creator of the Silvestre Dance Technique and widely known as a mother of African-rooted Brasilian dance in the United States. Throughout the film, you will see Rosangela dance and hear her vocalize, sharing her deep connection to artistry and spirit.
