All DFA members are invited to apply for post-production funding for their dance film projects.  If you are not currently a member, please sign up! Completed applications should be emailed to: member@dancefilms.org DFA Post Production Funding Application...

Mediated Motion, a new showcase for dance film,  as part of LaMama Moves Dance Festival  May 24-29, 2011 Map Curated by Billy Clark and Lindsey Medeiros of Culturehub, Mediated Motion is a dance and media art exhibit which showcases 15 artists from around the world. The diverse works explore how video...

[caption id="attachment_3035" align="alignleft" width="144" caption="BREAK, DOCF 2008"][/caption] DFA was recently buoyed by an award of $15,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to support our Dance on Camera Touring Program. Not only will the 2012 Dance on Camera Festival be our 40th, the accompanying Touring Program will...

CALL FOR STUDENT DANCE FILMS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE 2011 DANCE FOR CAMERA FESTIVAL AND WORKSHOP WITH KATRINA MCPHERSON We are looking for student work to be screened on the opening night of the Dance for Camera Festival and Workshop with KATRINA MCPHERSON, September 15, 2011. Submissions must...

How Did I Get Myself Into This? The gestation of a new festival by Greta Schoenberg It was one week before showtime when Dance Films Association invited me to write about the motivation for starting a new dance film festival in San Francisco. At that time I was definitely questioning...

Screening of work-in-progress documentary film at Dance Theater Workshop  219 West 19th Street, NYC Sunday, May 22, 2011  7:00 p.m. Use code 20101025 to receive the member price of $7! [caption id="attachment_3448" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Meredith Monk's Girlchild, photo: Lois Greenfield"][/caption] This documentary in progress includes rare archival footage from performances of...

The first event of the expanded Dance Film Lab was a great success, as you can see from the testimony of one of the participants, below. When I go to Dance Film Lab, I am sure to have a good experience.  Whether I am showing my...

Many of you visit the DFA website as a resource: for information on the far-flung - and growing! -  international network of dance film festivals.  Don't stress about the deadlines that have recently passed - jump on the upcoming ones! Here's a list for the...

"Re-staging, Re-constructing, Re-visioning, Re-working" Dance Critics Association -  June 9-12, 2011 - Seattle, Washington DCA's annual conference will be focused on reconstruction -- how do we discuss works from the past that are brought forward to the present? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbEU4d0YVS0&feature=related] The conference will be hosted by Pacific Northwest Ballet, whose new production...

You've probably already seen the latest Google Doodle celebrating Martha Graham's birthday. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsPqRKDxDDM] But you may not know that the Graham company member whose dancing was the basis for the animation is Blakely White-McGuire, a DFA member and contributor to the Dance on Camera Journal. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxuuON4C7_Q] Blakely's modest note accompanying the...

Elizabeth Streb's new book, HOW TO BECOME AN EXTREME ACTION HERO, has recently been published by Feminist Press. With an introduction and interview by Anna Deveare Smith, the book pops with provocation, intelligence, humor and energy. Buy the book through the DFA Store and a small portion of the...

Curating an Online Archive: Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive by Norton Owen One of the main goals of any archive is to provide access to its treasures. If any individual item, no matter what its supposed value, can never be viewed or studied or shared, what is its ultimate worth? We all...