DANCE ON CAMERA JOURNAL January-February 2011 Volume 13, No. 7 DFA Bulletin Call for dance film submissions! Festdecurt Festival in Denia, Spain. Deadline is March 21 Submissions Call for short film submissions! Aesthetica Short Film Competition Deadline is April 31. Submissions DanceNYC hosts Mid-Season Symposium on February 26 at the 3LD Art & Technology Center. Register for the Symposium ...
DANCE ON CAMERA JOURNAL January-February 2011 Volume 14, No. 1 DFA’s 39th Annual Dance on Camera Festival Jury Prize Honorees From left: Joanna Ney, Shi Jing Xin, Rannvá Káradóttir, Mei Yin Ng, Anne Linsel & Deirdre Towers Jury Prize for Best Dance Film BOW – Rannvá Káradóttir, 2010; Faroe Islands...
Neil Sieling, the curator of the Big Screen Project, asked the filmmakers whose shorts were shown on January 27 during the Dance on Camera Festival whether he could continue to show their shorts in March. Other dance on camera shorts will be shown on the...
DFA's 39th Dance on Camera Festival 2011 JURY PRIZE HONOREES BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM THE LAST TIGHTROPE DANCER IN ARMENIA "This captivating documentary reminds us how a body balancing in space and defying gravity is a magical act. A moving and melancholic film that shows the struggles of...
Many attendees at the recent Dance on Camera Festival were delighted to meet one of DFA's newest members: articulate, vivacious, accessible Patricia Ward Kelly - Gene Kelly's widow. Yes, THAT Gene Kelly! Because 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of that American treasure,...
"A message of love, a message of suffering, a message of sorrow." So says a blind man in Kinshasa, Congo when he hears classical music for the first time courtesy of Alain Platel's sensational production of Pitie performed by his Belgian dance-theatre company C de...
The three girls featured in ALL THE LADIES SAY (photo at left) - Aiko, Lady Champ and Baby Love - are flying in for both screenings at Walter Reade Theatre. Party to follow uptown...
1-6:30 Baryshnikov Arts Center, Studio 6B – Billy Cowie Retrospective 1:30pm Beacon School – Meet the Director Caswell Coggins 3:00pm Beacon School – Screening of DESTINO 6:30- 8 ...
Billy Cowie landed safely in New York City. Today we are loading in his amazing 3d video show at Baryshnikov Arts Center. Join us later at Big Screen Project for 2 screenings. Jan 24, 5 & 7 pm Dance on Camera/Bravo!FACT at The Big Screen Project. Read Robert Johnson's Star...
Jan 23, 6pm Bravo!FACT at The Big Screen Project. Read Robert Johnson's Star Ledger preview of Dance on Camera Festival See Dance on Camera Jan 23, SundayArts, noon on WNET, Channel 13 Read about Ina Hahn's documentary on Doris Humphrey DFA & The Film Society of Lincoln Center present...
The Dance Goodbye An Interview between Editor Kathryn Luckstone and DFA fiscal sponsored filmmakers Eileen Douglas & Ron Steinman Along with Ron Steinman – her producing partner in Douglas/Steinman Productions - Eileen Douglas has been a member of Dance Films Association for well over a decade. When asked how she...
Alla Kovgan: Shoemaker by Marta Renzi How does an award-winning filmmaker share her insights and experience in only two hours? Alla Kovgan chose to outline the process of making the short film NORA - from the original decision to focus on Nora Chipaumire as subject/story, to tips on editing. Along the...
Dance on Camera Reflections by Deirdre Towers 30 years ago I started working for DFA. I had gone to Susan Braun, the founder of DFA seeking a fiscal sponsorship for a cross-cultural documentary on Argentine Tango. She granted me the fiscal umbrella but she also recruited me to write her...
Bird Watching: A Review by Elizabeth Zimmer BLACK SWAN aced its opening weekend, albeit one of the slowest box-office weekends of the year; The New York Times on December 6 reported that in the art-house category, playing at only 18 theaters, it grossed $1.4 million, a record for Fox Searchlight,...
Dance: An Expanding Practice - Journal Part III by Blakeley White-McGuire Dance on film revealed its form to me while reviewing raw footage of new choreography, which I had casually filmed during a creative residency in New York City last summer. In a moment, I was struck by the camera’s...
Bird Watching: A Review by Elizabeth Zimmer BLACK SWAN aced its opening weekend, albeit one of the slowest box-office weekends of the year; The New York Times on December 6 reported that in the art-house category, playing at only 18 theaters, it grossed $1.4 million, a record for Fox Searchlight,...
Dance on Camera Journal - September/October issue Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV (below) What is Dis? by Elena TaJo What is Dis? Dis-ability. A lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability. Incapacity. A physical or mental handicap. So how does a cripple dance? And do...
Below is the third installment of DFA’s first web-based, episodic delivery of its Dance on Camera Journal. In a previous post, you’ll find the introduction to the Sept/Oct issue, and the first of four articles written especially for it. In the next, you'll find the second installment....
Below is the second installment of DFA's first web-based, episodic delivery of its Dance on Camera Journal. In a previous post, you'll find the introduction to the Sept/Oct issue, and the first of four articles written especially for it. If you'd like to read the entire issue...
Welcome to our first web-based, episodic delivery of the September/October 2010 Dance on Camera Journal. Below you'll find the introduction to this issue, and the first of four articles written especially for it. If you'd like to read the entire issue now, please become...
September/October 2010 Members' Voices In this issue we are pleased to focus on the voices of DFA members. The dance film community is a growing one, and we offer herein an opportunity to hear some of the diverse and committed voices of its participants. DFA asked four active professionals who...
to the Annual Members Meeting. It was a very convivial gathering, which included recent post-production grant awardees, long-time and brand new members, as well as representatives from one of our fiscally-sponsored projects - and, of course, the Board of DFA . Revised Bylaws were passed,...
Moving Pictures Festival suspends operations; MADance begins by Philip Szporer Toronto’s Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video, a significant presence on the international circuit since 1992, has suspended operations, as we know it, says co-founder and former artistic director Kathleen Smith. But Moving Pictures,...
Jan/Feb 2007 Journal BREAK wins Jury Prize of Dance on Camera Festival 2007 BREAK by New Zealand choreographer/director/writer Shona McCullagh wins the 2007 Jury Award for DFA's 35th annual Dance on Camera Festival. The Festival 2007 Jury, comprised of Elizabeth Zimmer, Ronald Gray, Hélène Lesterlin, Kelly Hargraves,...
Creating a country-symphony, as inspired by Artavazd Peleshian a fiscal sponsored project of DFA by Alla Kovgan In 2001, I discovered several poetic films SEASONS, INHABITANTS, and WE by post-WWII Soviet Armenian avant-garde filmmaker Artavazd Peleshian. SEASONS struck me the most. Without a single word, but through...
REVIEW: A WINK AND A SMILE by Shantal Parris Riley An energizing and exciting foray into the West Coast world of burlesque dance, A WINK AND A SMILE is a real adrenaline shot in the arm. Produced by Golden Echo Films, the film tells the story of a group...
Screening/Class for the Premiere of JULIA & JOYCE Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!) presented on March 13, 2010 a world premiere screening of the documentary JULIA AND JOYCE: THE STORY OF TWO PIONEERS directed by Sonia Dumas, Trinidad & Tobago, 2009, 60M. The filmmaker and one of...
DANCE SCREEN SWEDEN – THE NEW MIX review by Shantal Parris Riley Dance Screen Sweden’s The New Mix is an eclectic short film series, made over the last thirteen years. While Pontus Lidberg’s THE RAIN has been screened and praised repeatedly around the world, and Klara Elenius’s INSIGHT was shown last...
