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Provenance: A Letter To My Daughter

Provenance: A Letter to My Daughter is a short dance film about a transracial, transnational adoptee’s personal experiences struggling with identity, belonging, and inclusion growing up in the Midwest of America. Directed and choreographed by Li Chiao-Ping, dancer Elisabeth Roskopf’s exquisite movement and personal story reclaiming her heritage are captured beautifully by cinematographer and editor Christal Wagner.

Provenance premiered in Danceworks Performance MKE’s production of Sobriquet in 2022.

Awards

  • Experimental, Dance and Music Film Festival (2023) – Best Direction
  • Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival (2023) – Official Selection
  • Phoenix Film Festival (2023) – Official Selection
  • Milwaukee Film Festival (2023) – Official Selection
  • Festival Internacional VideoDanzaBA (2023) – Official Selection
  • MODArts Dance Collective: Move to Change Dance Festival (2023) – Official Selection
  • ACDA Screendance Festival (2023) – Adjudicated and Selected for The ACDA Screendance Gala Concert
  • Incheon International Short Film Festival (2024) – Finalist for Best Short Film
  • Busan New Wave Short Film Festival (2024) – Best Editing
Provenance: A Letter to My Daughter is a short dance film about a transnational adoptee's personal experiences struggling with identity, belonging, and inclusion growing up in the Midwest of America. Directed and choreographed by Li Chiao-Ping, dancer Elisabeth Roskopf's exquisite movement and personal story reclaiming her heritage are captured beautifully by cinematographer and editor Christal Wagner.

결코 잃지 않았다 (Never Lost) 

Directed and choreographed by Li Chiao-Ping, 결코 잃지 않았다 (Never Lost) is a 12-minute dance film shot en route to and on location in South Korea, during dancer and adoptee Elisabeth (O’Keefe) Roskopf’s first trip to her birthplace. Featuring personal unscripted narration, choreography, and poetic landscapes, “Never Lost” witnesses and captures the body in between, in search, and in the moment of facing the challenges of reclaiming self and identity, as well as familial and cultural histories. With cinematography and editing by Christal Wagner, this is Li and Wagner’s third screendance project together and second with Elisabeth Roskopf.

결코 잃지 않았다 (Never Lost) premiered in Elisabeth Roskopf’s Dance MFA Thesis Concert, | Out of Place |, at the Danceworks Studio Theatre on March 29-30, 2025.

Awards

  • 10,000 Dreams Film Festival (2025) – Official Selection and Honorable Mention in Direction Award
  • Omma Poom Park Grand Opening (2025) –  Official Selection
  • ARTSinTANK Dance Festival in Korea (2025) – Official Selection
  • Manifest Dance Film Festival (2025) – Official Selection
  • WRPN Women’s International Film Festival (2025) – Official Selection

Arrival 

Dancers: Zoe Mei Glise, Maree ReMalia, Elisabeth Roskopf, and Ailie Snyder
Choreography: Elisabeth Roskopf, in collaboration with the dancers
Music: Airport sounds and announcements; Ólafur Arnalds
Costume: Elisabeth Roskopf, in collaboration with the dancers
Lighting Design: Colin Gawronski
Filmed & Edited by Christal Wagner

“Arrival” premiered in Elisabeth Roskopf’s Dance MFA Thesis Concert, | Out of Place |.

Fitting In to Belong

Dancers: Zoe Mei Glise and Ailie Snyder
Choreography: Elisabeth Roskopf
Text and Dialogue: Zoe Mei Glise and Ailie Snyder
Written Text on Boxes: Alexa Orndahl
Music: Rainfall sounds
Costume: Elisabeth Roskopf
Lighting Design: Colin Gawronski
Filmed & Edited by Christal Wagner

“Fitting In to Belong” premiered in Elisabeth Roskopf’s Dance MFA Thesis Concert, | Out of Place |.