One Last Dance encourages awareness of our mortality as a moment of empowering. The film opens up space for the exploration of the contradictory feelings which are inspired by a woman's dying, if our perspective were not limited by that moment. When we confront the death of an elderly relative whom we care about, yet whom we have only come to know once their age has predetermined our standpoint, we are often disabled from seeing how much we actually share with them. While our trajectory will extend beyond theirs, one day we too will be where they are now. They are simply there before us. One Last Dance confronts Josh, the grandson, with the divergence between the challenges of the everyday and the part of himself that is deeply and forever connected both to Norma's having lived, and her now dying. One Last Dance is about the difficulty and opportunity we have in confronting this with an open mind.
—Director