Moving with Objects and Architecture Workshop & Screening with Zach Morris Workshop: Choreography for the Camera  Tuesday May 3rd 7-10pm In this workshop, multi-disciplinary artist Zach Morris will lead participants through a process of creating site-specific movement works for the camera. A grab-bag of choreographic tactics focus on working with the architecture...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="259"] Dance Interactive Photo Credits (left to right): Ted Shawn, photo Shapiro Studios; Drew Jacoby, photo Kristi Pitsch; Shantala Shivalingappa, photo C.P. Satyajit[/caption] Dance for Camera This has one good element going for it: The understood idea here is dance that is made to...

[caption id="attachment_3210" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Dance Interactive Photo Credits (left to right): Ted Shawn, photo Shapiro Studios; Drew Jacoby, photo Kristi Pitsch; Shantala Shivalingappa, photo C.P. Satyajit"][/caption] A Rose is a Rosa is a Hesperrhodos — (re)Naming an Art Form — by Mitchell Rose It’s embarrassing. My art form is...

Below is a video created by the  Dance/NYC Junior Committee as it launches its Dance Workforce Census, whose aim is to count every individual 21-35 years of age who works in any capacity to support professional dance in New York City. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0YvTjMykBY&feature=player_embedded] The Committee's intention is to generate conversation...

Kinetic Cinema @ Greenspace Presents: Moving with Objects and Architecture Workshop & Screening with Zach Morris Workshop: Choreography for the Camera  Tuesday May 3rd 7-10pm In this workshop, multi-disciplinary artist Zach Morris will lead participants through a process of creating site-specific movement works for the camera. A grab-bag of choreographic tactics focus on...

What is wabi sabi? According to Wikipedia, it is a Japanese aesthetic that "acknowledges three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect." In the clip below,  meet Marlon-Barrios Solano,  founder and director of dance-tech.net - and DFA's online strategy advisor - as he interviews choreographer Jill...

Seems that it takes a bit of controversy for a ballerina to make it on TV.  In response to the noise surrounding the removal of the "face replacement" special effects in Darren Aronofsky's BLACK SWAN, below...

Spotlight (below) on an excerpt from a work-in-progress documentary which received post-production funding from DFA in 2009. Jennifer Abod's THE PASSIONATE PURSUITS OF ANGELA BOWEN has been many years in the making, telling stories that are rich in detail about what it meant to be a...

At least two dance film festivals are happening this weekend around the globe: San Francisco Dance Film Festival in California, and LOIKKA in Helsinki, Finland.   Although we can't fly you there, we can share with you RAIN, an earlier work directed by Pontus Lidberg, who's...