Tonight marks the opening of the 10th anniversary of the Dance Camera West Dance Media Film Festival.  We wish them well - in fact we wish we could be there!  The Co(te)lette Film, directed by Mike Figgis, has its US Premiere at DCW on Saturday. Spend some watching...

                              Third Coast Film Festival - Deadline July 25th Oklahoma Dance Film Festival - Deadline: August 15 Sao Carlos Videodance Festival/2011 - Deadline: July 30th University of Utah Int'l Dance for the Camera Festival - Deadline: July 15th Festival Internacional...

Dance Entrepreneurs and the Digital Revolution: Can Dancers Make Moves and Killer Startups? That's the full title of an Interactive Panel Discussion presented on Thursday, June 9th from 8:00-10:00 Produced in conjunction with Internet Week NYC, the panel hopes to get at the heart of why the dance industry (bubbling over...

DFL Master Class June 11th 2:30-5:30 at Dance New Amsterdam 280 Broadway (enter on Chambers) Chris King teaches a 3-hour class in Editing $10 DFA members $25 non-Members joint DFA/DNA Membership $70.00 For complete info ...

DFA members are busy and engaged from coast to coast! Dance Camera West Dance Media Film Festival, June 16-19 presents the work of 4 DFA members. Ellen Bromberg, will discuss her doc on Deborah Hay, while planning for the University of Utah's September Dance for the Camera Festival & workshop Chisa Hidaka screens...

A quick glimpse into the busy lives of some DFA members' activities in June. If you are a DFA member,  share your news with us, at: info(at)dancefilms.org Deborah Greenhut is looking for two film production assistants for a documentary shoot: June 15-June 18 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Contact: playwrightdsg(at)hotmail.com Zena Bibler reminds us about...

Starting at the Beginning: Introducing Dance Film to College Students by Sharon Wyrrick When an expressive form integrates multiple mediums, it is difficult to find ways to articulate the diverse creations of its practitioners while preserving what holds it together as a genre. What is dance film? The very fact that...

Airing May 31st at 9:30 on WNET. Directed by Christopher (Kit) Lukas, The Choreographer is a 55-minute documentary profiling choreographer Lisa diRibere, who has danced with both Balanchine and Baryshnikov. In the excerpt below, Ms. diRibere, who has choreographed over 80 ballets, is seen in 2010 training a group...