[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tabs style="horizontal_left"][vc_tab title="Synopsis and Team" tab_id="1440525917-1-10"][vc_column_text]Sometimes By Dawa Lama Frank Sinatra School Of The Arts[/vc_column_text][/vc_tab][vc_tab title="Award" tab_id="1440532917-2-81"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="12203" qode_css_animation="element_from_fade"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text] Capturing Motion NYC 2015 Capturing Motion NYC Winning Film Learn More About Capturing Motion NYC[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tab][/vc_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

15 November, 2016 /

The film is an adaptation of a trio for three women to the music of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's Passacaglia for solo violin. It is a reflection on the relationship between time and a person’s identity. The three dancers represent the past, present and...

27 May, 2015 /

"It’s showtime, folks!" That’s the refrain of anxiety-ridden and unhealthfully driven choreographer Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) at the center of Fosse’s semi-autobiographical musical extravaganza, also featuring star turns by Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen, and Jessica Lange. Scheider is never less than captivating in his portrayal...

07 January, 2015 /

This radical vision from choreographer/director Blanca Li involves eight dancers whose extraordinary flexibility and expressivity are demonstrated as they explore the relationship between humans and machines. They are aided by mechanized instruments shaped like musical notes (created by Maywa Denki, a Japanese artist group), and...

07 January, 2015 /

World-renowned Czech choreographer Jiri Kylian, always a reluctant subject, finally agreed to participate in this film, the only record of his personal history and artistic life. Narrated by Kylian, it covers his school days in Prague, as well as his apprenticeship in London and Stuttgart,...

07 January, 2015 /

An intimate look at the historical and cultural roots of the Italian and American kinships with grand opera, featuring profiles of numerous notable figures, from renowned tenor Roberto Alagna to legendary Amato Opera Theatre founder Tony Amato. With the generous support from the Cultural Services...

07 January, 2015 /

This engaging documentary chronicles Benjamin Millepied (choreographer of Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan), the newly appointed director of the Paris Opera Ballet and founder of L.A. Dance Project, as a globe-trotting ambassador for dance: in rehearsal with his company in L.A., hanging out with Lil Buck,...

07 January, 2015 /

Butterfly is a poetic dance film following a girl's obsession with a butterfly. Her obsession and child-like innocence is lost as she is haunted by her previous actions....

07 January, 2015 /

This engaging, richly textured drama follows a renowned principal dancer whose injury forces her out of her company and uncomfortably into the role of motherhood. She realizes that her identity depends on dance and she struggles to return with the help of another former company...

07 January, 2015 /

"Every Day a Little Death" is one of seven short dance movies by Richard Daniels contained in the App Dancing Sondheim, Volume 4 from Dances for an iPhone. Writer, critic, dancer Deborah Jowitt dances in choreography by Richard Daniels, to lyrics of the song from...

07 January, 2015 /

"Children and Art" is one of seven short dance movies by Richard Daniels contained in the App Dancing Sondheim, Volume 4 from Dances for an iPhone. Dance artist Carmen de Lavallade dances Richard Daniels's choreography to Stephen Sondheim's song from his musical "Sunday in the...

07 January, 2015 /

Through her entire life, Rose has followed her passion for dance by using it as a singular method of communication essential to connect with her surroundings....

07 January, 2015 /

This non-narrative video is a dance of puppet-like figures, and mesmerizing forms, accompanied by percussive rhythms. It is a magical spectacle portraying a mesmerizing world in which figures flow and drip in a universe of their own as they proceed to a greater void. The...

07 January, 2015 /

TAGGED features graffiti painted dancers who create a moving image on city streets and transform spaces viewed as sacred, private, or useless into a useful urban theater. It addresses how artists claim public and private space as a creative canvas and encourages communities to see...

07 January, 2015 /

A recounting of violent event through the integration of narrative film and dance: A female laundry worker desperately attempts to abort the fruit of a violent encounter. When the consequences of her action are reveled, the memories she has repressed re-emerge....

07 January, 2015 /

Set in Iran, this powerful and unbelievable true story follows the brave ambition of Afshin Ghaffarian. During the volatile climate of the 2009 presidential election, where many cultural freedoms were threatened, Afshin and some friends (including Elaheh played by Freida Pinto) risk their lives and...

07 January, 2015 /

Sifting through photos and memories, a woman revisits her past saying good-bye to what was, while contemplating what will be....

07 January, 2015 /

Sucked into a choreographic time warp, conceptual hip-hop dancers intersect, collide and share fleeting moments of intimate synchronicity. By the film’s end, viewers slowly realize things are not as they seem...

07 January, 2015 /

Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Propelled by Streb’s edict that “anything too safe is not action,” these daredevils challenge the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human possibility. Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb...

07 January, 2015 /

A boy walks through school seeing visions of his classmates dancing in hallways, staircases, and in restrooms. He starts to doubt what is real, but when the girl he likes invites him to dance, he too starts to move. The film was made in collaboration with...

07 January, 2015 /

When a young man takes a break on a bench on the pier, an unexpected visitor turns his break into a full-out musical number. An unexpected, fun, and funny tap dance ensues. Performed by Geoffrey Goldberg and Danny Gardner...

07 January, 2015 /

Well Contested Sites is a 13- minute dance/theater film that explores the issue of mass incarceration and the complexity of experiences faced by those who are in prison. The films cast is comprised of Bay Area performing artists, some of who were previously incarcerated. The...

07 January, 2015 /

The sound of a lone flutist practicing Debussy’s Syrinx heard while walking through a forest in 1948, inspired the American choreographer Jean Erdman to create Hamadryad, a vision of a passionate wood nymph. In this dance fantasy directors, Nancy Allison and Paul Allman follow Bessie...

07 January, 2015 /

Set in the competitive world of cheerleading, AMERICAN CHEERLEADER follows the journey of two high school teams vying for the coveted National High School Cheerleading Championship. Overcoming challenges through discipline, dedication and teamwork, twelve girls from New Jersey and twelve girls from Kentucky redefine what...

07 January, 2015 /

A woman and a man share a suspended moment of intimacy sitting before a vast ocean. Here they muse on the enigmatic immensity of their own destiny, taking us into an ethereal fantasy that is compelled by ardent love, outside of time and the constraints...

07 January, 2015 /

After their sensational Dance Scene "Chant Et Fugue" The Lombard Twins are back with a new powerful piece "ESCUALO". Another Dance Scene from the Piazzolla Suite....

07 January, 2015 /

Two Memphis jookers and two ballet dancers fuse their distinct dance styles to a soundtrack that mixes hip-hop beats and cello at a famous Memphis juke joint....

07 January, 2015 /

An experimental dance film by filmmaker Shona Masarin and choreographer/performer Cori Olinghouse, "Ghost line" brings together the absurdist impulses of Dada and Surrealism with the kinetics of vaudeville, eccentric dance, and silent film to ask: how do we capture and reimagine—in a parlous age of...

07 January, 2015 /