Cut Me Summa Dat Noise
- Knowbox dance
- Jul 30
- 2 min read
kNOwBOX dance Film Festival 2025
Official Selection Film Spotlight
Cut Me Summa Dat Noise (2024)
Directed by Cara Hagan
📍 USA ⏱ 6:110 minutes
Cut Me Summa Dat Noise celebrates a neighborhood matriarch whose heartbeat sets the rhythm for a joyful, intergenerational symphony of everyday life and community connection.
Film Description
Cut Me Summa Dat Noise is a film that celebrates the rhythms of everyday life through the eyes of a neighborhood matriarch who sets the tone for a new day with the beat of her own heart. As the neighborhood comes to life, people of all ages unite in a joyous cacophony of sound that illuminates the connections between them as members of a vibrant and diverse community in rhythm.
Meet The Maker
What do you hope to communicate with our audience through your work?
To bring joy, to share some aspects of Black, rhythmic dance through embodied citation.
Our theme this year is "Bodies in Motion: A Dance Film Celebration" to move beyond borders and dance through time. Telling stories only the body can speak. How do you think your film relates to this theme?
Our film is an intergenerational celebration of movement and rhythm. Tap dance is a social art form, something that can truly only take place between bodies in motion.
Biography
Cara Hagan (She/They) is a mover, maker, writer, curator, champion of just communities, and a dreamer. She believes in the power of art to upend the laws of time and physics, a necessary occurrence in pursuit of liberation. In their work, no object or outcome is sacred; but the ritual to get there is. Hagan’s adventures take place as live performance, on screen, as installation, on the page, and in collaboration with others in a multitude of contexts.
Film Credits
Written by Giorgia Ponticello
Director, Cara Hagan; Choreographers, Cara Hagan, Margaret Morrison, Deborah Mitchell, Lisa LaTouche, Alexis Robbins, Adante Power, Kyleigh Vickars, Rae Walsh
Festival Screenings/Awards
Best Music Video, Allentown Film Festival; Best Choreography for the Camera, Festival Videodanza de Puerto Rico; Audience Choice Award, Opine Dance Film Festival
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