(CNN)Hardened dance purists might tell you that no film can do justice to the

experience of the stage, where creative performers toe the boundary of the impossible
before your eyes.
But dance is changing, with innovative directors employing lights, computers, and
camera trickery -- including projection-mapped lighting, stop-motion illustration, and
creative cinematography -- to create experiences that go beyond what the stage can
provide.
Immerse yourself in seven uncanny dance performances that use tantalizing new
techniques, state of the art technology, and outright trickery to take dance to the next
level.

Hakana
A dancer trapped inside a cube, wrapped with silk-thin fabric, tears apart her
minimalist surroundings. Her actions are improvised live, and translated into the digital
world by an entanglement of Microsoft Kinect cameras, complex algorithms, and highdefinition projectors. The studio behind the project, France's compagnie Adrien M /
Claire B, say the setup represents a bedroom, where the dancer crosses the boundary
between the waking world and the realm of dreams.

Little Dreams
Animating a dance sequence takes all the difficulty out of it, right? Not if you're Wilkie
Branson, who created over 4000 hand-cut characters over the duration of a year,
making "800 takes" of each shot to get everything right. The British filmmaker,
choreographer, and BBoy-inspired dancer delved into his personal archive of dance
footage, and created a new stop-motion world for the dancers, among his coffee
cups and morning papers.

Light Spin
Eric Pare took over half a million pictures of contemporary dancers in the dark "using
light-painting, stop-motion and bullet-time techniques," he says, to achieve this
incredible effect. The Montreal-based visual artist asked dancers to enter an
intimidating ring of 24 DSLR cameras, and set them a herculean task.

Shooting each frame would last for a 1-second-long exposure, where the dancer
would have to stay statue-still. They would then have 2 seconds to move to their next
pose before freezing again. Repeat, repeat, repeat for 6 minutes -- and the result is a
10 second clip.

Dueto
Dueto brings together technologies ancient and modern to evoke an eerie sense of
memory and nostalgia. The digital and Super 8 analogue film shows English National
Ballet dancers Fernanda Oliveira and Junor Souza -- both originally from Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil -- dance their way through the story of their arrival in London as young dancers.
The filmmakers MJW productions created the project for U.K. TV station Channel 4's
Random Acts series, along with their surreal "The Try Out," which deploys the full arsenal
of camera tricks, creative editing, and warped choreography to create its unsettling
result.

Pixel
France's Centre Chorgraphique National uses projection mapping techniques to
transform the stage into a living canvas for 11 dancers who withstand a barrage of
digital rain, play among computer-generated bubbles, and see the floor below them
collapse into perilous rocky terrain. Originally conceived -- like Hakana, above -- by
artists Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne, the result is "a work on illusion, combining
energy and poetry, fiction and technical achievement, hip hop and circus."

Emptied Gestures
New Orleans-based artist Heather Hansen uses hypnotic, pendulum-like arching
movements to translate her dancing body onto canvas. She says she is "exploring ways
to download my movement directly onto paper, emptying gestures from one form to
another." The process, captured by photographer Bryan Tarnowski, is as captivating as
the end product.

Become One
Israeli director duo Guy Sadot and Matan Tamarkin merge computer graphics and
expressive dance in this film for the Israeli Ballroom Dancing Fund (see also the
impressive sequence at the top of the page). The film by studio FilMill introduces a third
dancer to the tango: digital geometric forms that grow out of the human dancers'
shapes and bounce off their movements.

JEJU, South Korea At the windy port here on South Koreas most famous resort island,
stevedores prepared a ferry for its four-and-a-half-hour journey to Mokpo in the
countrys southwest, chains clanking as they lashed trucks to the damp cargo deck. As
truck drivers hauling cows, radishes and aluminum window frames inched their way to
the front of the line, they did something they had never done before last year: They
handed in paperwork certifying the weight of their cargo.
That simple safety step an attempt to avoid dangerous overloading is one of a
host of regulatory changes made since the sinking of the Sewol ferry, one of South
Koreas most traumatic peacetime disasters. A year ago this week, the accident
claimed the lives of more than 300 passengers, most of them teenagers on a school trip
to Jeju.
In the past, we didnt weigh trucks and we didnt know how much ships were carrying
in cargo, said Oh Myung-o, an inspector in Jeju who is back on the job while he and
four other inspectors from the island stand trial for failing to stop routine overloading.
We did not suspect the Sewol would do foul play with its ballast water. We were
wrong.
As prosecutors later discovered, the Sewol was carrying twice its legal limit of cargo on
its final voyage, having dumped most of the ballast water that would have helped
stabilize it. The ferry operators got away with it because inspectors had limited
themselves to monitoring many ships from shore; so long as vessels did not sit too low in
the water, the inspectors raised no questions.
The overloading helped doom the ferry when it made a sharp turn in dangerous
currents. But it was just one of numerous regulatory sins so serious that the countrys
president, Park Geun-hye, vowed to untangle long-tolerated collusive ties with industry
that many believe were at the heart of the tragedy.
TIMELINE
Ferry Disaster in South Korea: A Year Later
The sinking of the ferry Sewol was among South
Koreas worst peacetime disasters and led to criminal
convictions, the resignation of the countrys prime
minister and the death of the billionaire who owned
the ferry.

One year later, many safety experts and those working in the shipping industry say
important changes have been made, including the passage of a law to ban
government officials from taking expensive gifts and another to crack down on
business owners whose companies are involved in major disasters.
The second law was passed after prosecutors alleged that members of the flamboyant
family they say owned the Sewol had illegally siphoned funds from the ferry company,
forcing its managers to overload ferries and scrimp on safety measures.
But government critics remain bitter, convinced Ms. Parks administration is more
interested in moving past the tragedy that has threatened to become her biggest
legacy than in undertaking a serious investigation of the disaster and bungled rescue.
They cite recent safety lapses on ships as evidence of continued wrongdoing.
Last weekend, thousands of people, including 70 of the Sewol victims parents who
shaved their heads in protest, marched in downtown Seoul to demand that a new
investigation be opened.

Have seen Pakistanis escaping the local Taliban and hill folk fleeing from the
encroaching water of the 2010 floods.
I've seen the plight of the stateless Rohingya who live on the border Myanmar with
Bangladesh.
Yet, in these isolated cases the impression I got from the "victims", if I can call them that,
was that there was always hope for a better future.
A future that would see them rehabilitated and able to return to land and homes they
were familiar with.
For me and the Al Jazeera team here in Kuala Lumpur, the experience has been so
different from anything we've experienced before.
I enter a small three-bedroom apartment in the outer suburbs of the Malaysian capital.
The block of flats is rundown and the creaky lift slowly climbs its way up the higher
floors.
Abdul Ghani, a very thin and ill-looking Syrian refugee in his mid-fifties, meets us
coughing.
He politely introduces himself and ushers us through a door through to his apartment,
which is revealed after a weighty iron safety grill has been wheeled out of the way.
"Its not so safe here at night", Abdul Ghani tells me and smiles, but compared to
Damascus where he comes from, this is a much safer place to stay for the moment.
He's been suffering from a recurring chest infection and treating the illness will costs
more than he can afford. His savings are running low and it's left to him to seek out
charitable organisations that can help.

Three small bedrooms

Abdul Ghani shares an apartment with two Bangladeshi workers who had taken pity
on him and invited him to live with them.
It's a tiny place with three small bedrooms, a cooking area and a small lounge with
one sofa neatly positioned by the bay window.
It's not perfect nor is it luxurious but it's a safe haven for a man who still finds it difficult to
sleep.

Waking up after nightmares of the bloody scenes he witnessed in Syria is a source of

great anxiety, knowing as he does that his relatives in Syria don't have the luxury of
waking up in a safe bed.
We set up and conduct our interview, throughout which he's visibly emotional and cries
periodically.
We stop filming when he asks ."Please don't show this ... . I dont want the world to think
I am weak!"
We have to respect the requests of any contributor to our news story.
Some don't want to show "weakness"; others say they dont want to show their face for
religious or security factors. We take each scenario on a case-by-case basis.

Level of trust
Why, I bet you are asking.
I may in the future need to speak again with Abdul Ghani and I need to develop a
level of trust.
He has never met anyone from Al Jazeera and needs to know we keep our word.
We talk. He's tearful but he gets his message and story across to us.
The report you will see on AJE fills in the rest of the gaps for you.
Syrian refugees are scattered across the globe, lost, without a place to call home and
in lands where they are not cared for and often looked at with suspicion.
You don't need to be a Syrian refugee to expect help from a host country.
Across the world we have refugees in our respective nations for a number of reasons.
If you are outside Syria, be thankful for what you have, and if you have the time and
the capacity, consider helping those most in need.
No matter how little, no matter who or where the "victim" comes from!

1. According with the text A what is the trick that you consider more difficult? Why?
2. Matthew Ponsfordin his text show many interesting dances. Is he written that any
common people can check it? Explain your answer.
3. Which dance the dance could be make an impression that is freeze?
4. What is the influence of technology in the movement of the dancers?
5. For be the better dancer in the word you have to be millionaire What do you
think about it?
6. What was one the most traumatic disaster in the island? Why?
7. What was the number of the victims? What do you think about this accident?
8. What are the experts opinions about the disaster? Are you agree or disagree?
Why?
9. The reaction of the victims parents is appropriated or not? Explain you answer
10. When you are young, you have the live secure?
11. What do you think about the phase I dont want the world to think I am weak?
12. Describe to Abdul Ghani.
13. Where is Kuala Lumpur?
14. The reactions of the people have to see with their religion?
15. Why do you believe that a person can be scattered?

Complete the gaps with a word from the box.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Entanglement
Unsettling
Resort
Charitable

E.
F.
G.
H.

Doom
Pity
Bungled
Bounce

1. _______Word for said that it place receive many visit in South Korea.
2. _______An adjective that describe the result of a disconcert work.
3. _______ Movement that the dancers can do easily.
4. _______If the government realized a serious investigation of the disaster can be
found it.

5. _______Quality of an organization that bring help to the people

6. _______The action that a group the workers felt.
7. _______It was helped by the overloading
8. _______ The secure movements of the dancer in which his actions are improvised,
doing with a translated from technology.

9. Which word from C text is synonym for:

Tearful:_______________________

Usher:________________________

Encroaching:__________________

10. Which word from C text is antonym for:

Charitable:____________________

Luxury:________________________

Scattered:_____________________

11. Which adjectives in text A would you use to describe each of following?
Light Spin:_______________________________________________________________
Dueto:___________________________________________________________________
Emptied Gestures:______________________________________________________
Find words in the text B with the meaning indicated below, and write a sentence using
it.

12. Of the nature of, characterized by, or given to prolonged, empty talk;

voluble; verbose; bombastic.____________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

13. Grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome._______________

____________________________________________________________________________

14. An action that is evil, or blameworthy. _______________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

15. Match the words with the correct picture.