Crossing the Bar
A film by Tim BrunsdenFeaturing Men! Dancing!
Against the background of a cityscape and sea wall, Men! Dancing! gather on a deserted beach.
This film considers what it is to be human, exploring life’s beginning, with the creation and formation of cells, organs and consciousness, to the inevitability of our own mortality.
Inspired by Tennyson’s poem of the same title, the dancers swarm together in unity at the point of existence and finality.
Credits
Choreography by Jennifer Hale and Men! Dancing!
Music written by Rani Arbo
Sung by The Spooky Men’s Chorale
Musical arrangement by Stephen Taberner with thanks to Craig Morgan Robson
Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Directed and edited by Tim Brunsden
Filmed by Peter Carr and Tim Brunsden
Audio description by Amanda Bright
Men! Dancing! are
Mark Allerton
Chris Ball
Tim Brunsden
Peter Gommon
Trevor Hood
Glen Jones
Robert Marten
Nigel Robinson
Paul Whelan
Filmed in New Brighton, Merseyside November, 2023