Bodies Apart, Moving Together is a short dance film created in response to the early days of the global pandemic, when I would walk through the empty streets with music pumping into my ears (especially the track used in this film), and often stand at intersections experiencing the strangeness of not blocking any traffic with my body. Conceived as a collective project, the film brings together submissions from 20 international dancers, each filming themselves in isolation and offering fragments of movement as testimony to grief, resilience, and the longing for connection.

Spliced into a shared visual language, these bodies cut off from physical touch nevertheless reach instinctively toward one another across distance and time. The work becomes both document and ritual, revealing the ways separation has shaped human experience not only in crisis, but long before. The film received audience-emotional acclaim—viewers described it as deeply moving, evoking the shared emotional weight of the moment and capturing how art connects bodies across time and space. The film was released on International Day of Dance, April 29, 2020, as a gesture of solidarity.

Bodies Apart, Moving Together was recognized internationally, selected for screening at the 2020 Portland Dance Film Festival and the 2020 Ela Fala Short Dance Film Screening.