A movement born out of migration and distance—out of likeness and difference. In this mutually birthed language we seek to obliterate the illusion that we are separate from each other and the environment that holds us together. We are no bigger or smaller. We are a brotherhood. A kinship. Filmed in Kaduna, Nigeria Directors: Ridwan Adeniyi + Jacob Jonas Choreographer: Vinson Fraley Featuring: Ebinum Brothers Composer: Anibal Sandoval DP/Editor: Raymond Yusuff Women Singing: Gbagyi Tribe Sound Recordist: Ronald Yusuff Costume Designer: Khadijah Yunusa Color: Will Adashek Production: Critics Company PRODUCED BY: Jacob Jonas The Company IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: Somewhere Magazine CO-PRESENTED BY: Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts www.films.dance

London, UK

Siren is a visual journey into Royal Ballet Principal dancer Francesca Hayward’s relationship with ballet, drawing on her early experiences of the art form to create a contrastingly intimate yet voyeuristic experience for the viewer. In collaboration with choreographer Michael Montgomery and designer Simone Rocha, director Jess Kohl expertly crafts a hauntingly beautiful narrative that expresses the macabre origins of the ballets that captivated Francesca as a young child. 

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Director: Jess Kohl
Choreographer: Michael Montgomery
Performed by: Francesca Hayward, Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet 
Executive Producer: Jackson Forsythe
Executive Producer: Juliette Larthe
Producer: Jackson Forsythe
Co-Production: PRETTY BIRD 
Co-Production: UNSIGNED
Costume Designer: Simone Rocha
Stylist: Robbie Spencer
Composer: Isobel Waller Bridge
DOP: Eoin McLoughlin
Make Up: Celia Burton
Production Manager: Andreja Viskovic
Additional Photography: Jed Darlington-Roberts
Steadi Cam Operator: Junior Agymen
1st AC: Tom Storey
1st AC: Louise Tse
Styling Assistant: Met Kilinc
Drone Pilot: Ibrahim Serra Mohammed
Editor: Charlie Von Rotberg
Edit Post Production: Stitch
Colourist: Alex Gregory
Producer: Diego Basualdo
Post Producer: Kirsty Oldfield 
Post Production Company: Serena
Flame Colourist: Adrian Aragones
Post Production: Luis Huete, Esther Ceballos y Beatriz Descalzo     
Credit Design: Jump Jirakaweekul
PR: DH-PR
Filmed at the Royal Opera House, London.

In Collaboration with: Simone Rocha
Support from: Simone Rocha, Kodak, DH-PR, Royal Opera House, Prettybird, Stitch Editing, No8 London

Special thanks to: Kirsty Oldfield, Rachel Hollings, Daisy Hoppen, Juliette Larthe, Eoin McLoughlin, Marion Abramov, Ryann Foulke, Lizzie Walker, Royal Opera House, Simone Rocha, Charlie Morris 

Produced by Jacob Jonas The Company
Executive Producer/Creative Director: Jacob Jonas
Producers: Jill Wilson, Emma Rosenzweig-Bock