The Dress, Dance Film, Lynn Panting Dance — Lynn Panting Dance

"The Dress" is a short dance fantasy film written and directed by Lynn Panting.

“The Dress” is an ode to ships passing in the night; the joy of the unfulfilled. It's also a love letter to dresses.

Laurel wreath with the text 'Best Award Winner' in the center.

Festival award recognition badge with black laurel branches and text indicating semi-finalist at the San Francisco Women Film Festival in August 2025.

An iconic black and white image of a statue of a man surrounded by a laurel wreath.

Black silhouette of a statue with wings, sitting down, with laurel branches on either side, stylized and minimalistic.

Thank you to funders Arts NL and the City of St. John’s

Thank you to supporters TADA Events and Rodney Philpott Designs

The Dress Workshop 2022

2022 Workshop Collaborators:

Lynn Panting- writer, director

Ritche Perez- videographer

Kyle McDavid- composer

Glenda Stirling- movement dramaturg

Mark White- collaborator

Philip Goodridge- collaborator

Andrya Duff- collaborator

Manon Avoine- collaborator

Hilary Walsh- collaborator

Two men, both wearing face masks, working on costumes in a room with a window. One man is arranging clothes on a rack, and the other is filming or photographing the process with a camera stabilizer. The costumes include a mannequin dressed as a wedding dress, various garments hanging on the rack.

The 2022 workshop of “The Dress” was supported by ArtsNL and The City of St. John’s.

Logos for the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council with the initials 'NL' formed by colorful dots next to the text.