Salomé - Provocative Dance Short Film

Sexuality and dogma collide in provocative study of the human nature. Salomé is the new dance short film by director Rogério Silva in collaboration with London-based EDIFICE Dance Theatre (EDT). The film, loosely based on Oscar Wilde’s play of the same name, captures the electric moment Salomé and Jokanaan first meet. As the fateful encounter begins, sexuality and dogma inevitably collide in a spiralling dance of obsession and rejection. Progressively, Salomé’s wicked gaze permeates the principles in which Jokanaan’s built a life of virtue and restraint. To begin with, both Silva and EDT felt it important to strip away centuries-old interpretations of female subservience that is present within the biblical narrative. The film looks more favourably towards the text of Oscar Wilde, where the once nameless daughter of Herodias becomes a young woman charged with agency and power. Aligned with Wilde, the film embraces Salomé as a complex figure and liberates her desire to con