Cloud Dancing Film Productions
About
There is dance, ancient, new and forever new. There is digital technology, just being born. Why not combine both? Then dance films come alive!
Cloud Dancing Film Productions is a place where these dances are being dreamed, conceived, realised, filmed, edited and fleshed out into real life creations by the director and choreographer Yuriy Pestov and wonderfull dancers.
Dancing for the films is performed by Cloud Dancing Enterprise dancers with the choreography and direction made by Yuriy Pestov.
Yuriy Pestov's films have been selected and awarded by GSF Awards in Cannes, France, San Mauro Film Festival, Alternative Film Festival, 300 Seconds Film Festival, Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival, North America Teaser Future Film Festival, Cyprus International Film Festival, Hope Film Awards, Film Con Hollywood, Beijing Film Festival, Sweet As Film Festival, The Edge Art Gallery in Whitehorse, Canada
Yuriy Pestov"s Dance Resume
Performance experience:
2017
«Sculpting the Air» at The International Sculpture Day Open Studios at 1890 Bryant Street, San Francisco. Dancers: Yuriy Pestov and Juliet Paramor. Choreography by Yuriy Pestov.
2015
«Around Trees» dance film. Choreography, filming and performance by Yuriy Pestov.
2013
«Tfisa, or——?» solo performance at The Performance Art Institute, San Francisco. Choreographer and dancer Yuriy Pestov.
2010
“UN-bound (in-drawn), in-bound (out-driven)” at the UN Plaza, San Francisco. A series of two performances. Idea and movement direction by Yuriy Pestov. Commissioned by Independent Arts & Media- SF Arts Market program.
“in-cloud-merge” at the Garage, San Francisco. Dancers: Dominique Nigro and Yuriy Pestov. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov.
2009
"People Are People" at the Garage, San Francisco. Choreographer Aura Fischbeck.
”Occurence” by Himma Collective in the Garage, San Francisco. Choreography: Christine Cali and others.
"The Symmetry Project- Transmission" at Union Square in San Francisco. Choreography by Jess Curtis, Jess Curtis/Gravity.
"7 Ways to Say I Love You" at Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley, California. Choreographer Amie Dowell. "7 Ways to Say I Love You» at CounterPulse, San Francisco. Choreographer Amie Dowell.
2006
"Underground" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, San Francisco. Choreographer David Dorfman. "Shapes" at Mountain View Dance Festival, Mountain View, California. Choreography: Martin A. David.
"Shapes" and "Leaden Skies" in sjDANCEco 4th Annual Dancin' Downtown Festival, San Jose, California. Choreography: Martin A. David.
"Shapes" in Raw and Uncut Festival at Shotwell Studios, San Francisco. Choreography: Martin A. David. (Dance and Improvised drawings).
"Shapes" in Colors...and More at ODC Theater, San Francisco. Choreography: Martin A. David.
"Shapes" in Colors...and More at ODC Theater, San Francisco. Choreography: Martin A. David.
"Chance Meetings" in Colors...and More at ODC Theater, San Francisco. Choreography: Jamie Ray Wright.
"Chance Meetings" in Colors...and More at ODC Theater, San Francisco. Choreography: Jamie Ray Wright. 2002
solo performance "The Heroman" in The TV Show, The Boon Project at The Warehouse, San Francisco. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov
2001
solo performance "Under the Straight Line" in Exit, International Festival for Unusual Live- Performances, Helsinki, Finland. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov.
Teaching and choreography experience :
2017
«Sculpting the Air» in The International Sculpture Day, Open Studios at 1890 Bryant Street, San Francisco. Dancers: Yuriy Pestov and Juliet Paramor. Choreography by Yuriy Pestov.
«Plays with Dolls» dance film. Choreography and filming by Yuriy Pestov. Dancers: Helena Birecki, Angela Benirschke, Hannah Pierce.
2016
«Occurrence in a Park» dance film. Choreography and filming by Yuriy Pestov. Dancers: Helena Birecki, Angela Benirschke, Hannah Pierce.
2015
«Around Trees» dance film. Choreography, filming and performance by Yuriy Pestov.
2013
«Tfisa, or——?» solo performance at The Performance Art Institute, San Francisco. Choreographer and dancer Yuriy Pestov.
2010
“UN-bound (in-drawn), in-bound (out-driven)” at the UN Plaza, San Francisco. A series of two performances. Dancers: Sammi Sumampong and Yuriy Pestov. Idea and movement direction by Yuriy Pestov.
“in-cloud-merge” at the Garage, San Francisco. Dancers: Dominique Nigro and Yuriy Pestov. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov.
2007
Assistant choreographer in "Yearning" by Jewish Dance Theater at «Spring Forward" Choreographers Showcase at Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco. Choreographer Bruce Bierman.
Solo performance in “Bang for the Buck” in West Wave Dance Festival at Project Artaud, San Francisco. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov.
2006
Taught performance workshop with ...And Still Dancing in Bay Area National Dance Week at CounterPulse.
Taught performance workshop with ...And Still Dancing in Bay Area National Dance Week at CounterPulse. (A San Francisco Bay Area National Dance Week's Cornerstone Event).
2002
solo performance "The Heroman" in The TV Show, The Boon Project at The Warehouse, San Francisco. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov.
Choreographer Yuriy Pestov. 2001
solo performance "Under the Straight Line" in Exit, International Festival for Unusual Live- Performances, Helsinki, Finland. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov.
Awards and residencies:
6 months residency for making of a dance film at Moving Arts Studio, San Francisco, USA, 2018- 2019.
1 month residency for making of dance performance at Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, USA, 2012.
Scholarship at 17th Annual West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkeley, California, 2005.
Professional training:
Studied ballet, contemporary dance, release, contact improvisation, dance improvisation, ethnijazz, choreography at SF Conservatory of Dance, SF City Ballet, ODC School, Lines Ballet School in San Francisco, and other venues including in Russia.