Dagmar Dachauer is a choreographer and filmmaker, who during this residency was creating the ‘Oak‘ part of the project ‘Competing for Sunlight – The Tree Cycle’, a short dance film series, featuring protagonists of a range of different tree species and dance, telling individual short stories.

After her dance-on-screen debut ‘Treeo – A Dance for a Woman, a Man and a Tree’, which was awarded the DIORAPHTE Encouragement Prize at the international CINEDANS Festival 2014, Dagmar Dachauer/UMFUG, together with a diverse group of collaborators, further conceptualizes and realizes meetings of cinema, dance and trees in this Series.

“Oak” – was created and recorded at Earthwise with the biggest oak in the valley next to the residency house. During her stay, Dagmar gave an artist talk at Performing Arts Platform.