
12 Sep DFA Digest: September 12

DFA PROGRAMSShow Boat CruiseTOMORROW NIGHT! PURCHASE TICKETSJoin us for a Cruise around Manhattan in celebration with Marge Champion for her birthday!![]() Solar Powered Film Series: Films That MoveOPENS TOMORROW NIGHT! FREEDFA returns to Stuyvesant Cove Park to partner with Solar 1 for the second annual Solar Powered Film Series: Films That Move made possible by Rooftop Films.![]() Dance Film Lab MasterclassTwo Case Studies featuring Gabrielle Lansner and Greg Vander Veer![]() DFA SUPPORTSJacob Burns Film Center: Dance on Film“Our annul celebration pliés, leaps, and runs the gamut from up-close looks at the next generation of ballet stars to a Latin ballroom champion attempting a comeback. We kick it off with Singin’ in the Rain, now marking its 60th anniversary.”![]()
Screendance JournalVol 2: Scaffolding the Medium- now available to order.The International Journal of Screendance is produced by The Centre for Screendance at the University of Brighton and published by Parallel Press at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Iterative texts by writers including, Martin Heidegger, Amelia Jones, Laura Mulvey, Rosalind Krauss and Pia Ednie-Brown inspire reflections by Ann Cooper Albright, Ann Dils, Kent de Spain, Lisa Naugle and John Crawford, Tom Lopez, Harmony Bench, Hannah Kosstrin, Jason Farman, Melissa Blanco Borelli, Douglas Rosenberg, Virginia Piper, Terry Sprague, Rodrigo Alonso, Claudia Rosiny, Kyra Norman, Miranda Pennell, Augusto Corrieri, Simon Ellis, Dianne Reid and Lucy Cash. Artist’s pages by Adam Roberts, reviews by Scott deLahunta and Claudia Rosiny and a section on Maya Deren by Elinor Cleghorn. Finally, the issue features a report on the recent Screendance Symposium in Brighton by Claudia Kappenberg and Sarah Whatley. This issue is edited by Douglas Rosenberg and Claudia Kappenberg. Information for ordering, visit the website.
DFA FriendsMOVE TO MOVE: Ballet in Cinema presented by Emerging Pictures“If you see one live performance this year… Nederlands Dans Theater is the one to see.”-New York Times![]() “Move to Move” opens nationally on September 23rd and in New York at BIG Cinemas – 239 East 59th Street Chelsea Clearview – 260 West 23rd Street For other locations nationwide and to find the closest theatre near you, enter your zipcode here. MOVE TO MOVE | September 23 and 25, 2012 Nederlands Dans Theater 168 minutes including one intermission Contemporary Ballet genre Dance lovers, take note: The Nederlands Dans Theater, “[one] of the most exciting and sleekly glamorous ensembles” (The Independent) comes to the big screen for the first time with Move to Move, an evening of four contemporary dance masterpieces: “Left Right Left Right” (choreography by Alexander Ekman), “Silent Screen” (Sol Léon & Paul Lightfoot), “Secus” (Ohad Naharin), and the world premiere of “Shine A Light,” a new work by Leon and Lightfoot. Don’t miss this “retina-shredding spectacle of passion and power” by “the world’s most magnificent dancers”. (Sunday Herald) Tribute to the Montreal FIFADouble Feature at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
September 21 and 22, 2012 6:15pm both nights Film Society of Lincoln Center Howard Gillman Theater 144 West 65th Street, New York, NY 10023 Tickets here. This brief survey of films shown at the 30th edition of the festival offers an intriguing overview of the many ways that contemporary filmmakers attempt to create a dialogue between cinema and the other arts. Presented in collaboration with MUSE Film and Television, and with the generous support of the Québec Government Office in New York. Special thanks to René Rozon, founder/director of the FIFA and Nadine Covert, New York Delegate, FIFA. Choreography for Audiences- Take OneA live film conceived and choreographed by Noemie Lafrance![]() |
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