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Dance Is Everything
Director: Bea Labikova Country: Canada year: 2025 Running Time: 0:02:15 Category: Music video Producer: Distributor: Bea Labikova
Synopsis
‘Dance is Everything’ celebrates the transcendence, adventure and joy of human movement. With hand drawn care, the short animated film begins tracing the slow elegant movements of a dancer among the stars. It follows her in joyous play as she jumps, turns, dips and splashes, magically springing the
Director's BIO
Bea Labikova is a Slovak-Canadian animator and illustrator who specializes in hand-drawn animation. Trained at the Vancouver Film School’s classical animation program, Bea has developed a style that is characteristically detail-oriented, intricate and colourful. Her background in music performance uniquely positions her to create animated works that are seamlessly integrated with music.
Her most recent film “Dance Is Everything” is a visual and musical celebration of the joy and magic of dance, scheduled to premiere in 2026. In 2023, Bea was awarded a Canadian Council for the Arts (CCA) grant to direct and animate "Do You Know Where Your Friends Are Right Now?”, a short music film about the monopolization and monetization of our attention by technology. This film was screened at several festivals including ‘Les sommets du cinéma d'animation’ in Montreal, Canada. In her upcoming project Bea will direct and animate a music film “The Aviator” about femme flight pioneer Aida de Acosta.
Beyond animation, Bea also has a special interest in helping to promote and empower women and is proud to be the visual artist behind the imagery of the Women From Space Festival.
Contacts
beata.labikova@gmail.com
