Board of Directors

Marta Renzi, President
Marta Renzi is a choreographer and dance filmmaker, and the recipient of 7 NEA Fellowships, a BESSIE, and the first Dancing in the Streets award as “a fearless explorer.” Her live and video works have been shown in the US and abroad, on PBS and in community centers. Renzi has served on the Board of Advisors for the New York Foundation for the Arts and as a consultant for the New England Foundation for the Arts’ program “Building Community Through Culture.” She joined the Board of Directors of DFA in September 2008.

Streep hand in hand with Renzi, circa 1984, Lincoln Center Of of Doors

Harry Streep, Vice President
Harry Streep has been a choreographer and director of two dance companies: the Third Dance Theater and Harry Streep and Human Arms. In 1993, Streep helped co-found the Beacon School, a public high school in New York City where he is currently the Assistant Principal. Streep has a B.A. from Tufts, and an M.A. from Columbia Teachers College. Streep joined the Board of Directors of Dance Films Association in 2009.

Amy Meharg, Secretary 
Amy Meharg is an independent business consultant, has served as production manager, comptroller, and production accountant for a wide range of film and television projects.   In 1993 Amy received an M.B.A. from Rutgers University, with a concentration in Business and the Arts.   Prior to obtaining her M.B.A., Amy organized numerous events and conferences with the Vice President of the nonprofit Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, as well as co-editing some of their publications.

Louise Spain, Treasurer
Louise Spain is Professor Emerita at La Guardia Community College/City University of New York where she was Director of Media Services in the Library Media Resources Center.  She is currently the Treasurer of the New York Film/Video Council.  She edited Dance on Camera:  A Guide to Dance Films and Videos, published by Scarecrow Press in 1998. She has been on the Board of DFA since 1980.

Virginia Brooks is Professor Emerita of Film at Brooklyn College/CUNY, where she taught film production for 26 years.  She received an MFA in film directing and a PhD in Theater/Film from Columbia University. From 1978 to 1981, while coordinator of the Jerome Robbins Film Archive of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library, she wrote her dissertation,The Art and Craft of Filming Dance as Documentary. Dr. Brooks is the author and  the author of reviews and reports for Ballet Review, Dance Research Journal,Dance Magazine, the Millenium Film Journal, and IRIS. Since 1980 she has produced video archive material for the School of American Ballet, and since 1995 she has been video editor for the George Balanchine Foundations Interpreters Archive and Archive of Lost Choreography. She has directed several documentaries on dance subjects including, most recently, The Nutcracker Family – Behind the Magic(2006),and Felia Doubrovska Remembered (2008). She has been on the Board of Directors of Dance Films Association since 1978.