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...
Dance Film Lab: a playing (not proving) ground by Rebecca Whitehurst October 6, 2006 On Monday, October 2nd a group of strangers, linked by their craze for creating dance on camera, gathered one-by-one in a sizeable Williamsburg basement. This basement, aptly tagged The Bunker, boasts a movie screen bigger than my...
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...
Nominations for Dance on Camera Festival 2010 Jury Prize/Short Film Category DFA’s 38th Dance on Camera Festival offers strong shorts this year, with sixteen women directors. This year’s Jury, comprised of Terry Fox, Arthur Aviles and Zsoka Nej, nominated the following titles for the Jury Prize/Short Film Category with their...
The Jury for DFA's 37th annual Dance On Camera Festival announces its nominations for the 2009 Dance on Camera Prize DFA’s 2009 Festival Jury - Tere O’Connor, Caterina Bartha, Lois Greenfield, and Madeleine Shapiro - met in the first week of December to deliberate as to what titles will be...
Alla Kovgan & David Hinton create a stellar dance film NORA in Mozambique with Bessie award-winner Nora Chipaumire NORA is a breakthrough dance film commissioned by the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), directed by Alla Kovgan and David Hinton, based on the life of Nora...
The mystery that drives us: Encountering director Thierry de Mey by Allen Kaeja “It’s the mystery that continuously drives us to the next project. What are the obstacles to solve, the curiosity to satisfy.” Thierry de Mey To attempt to encapsulate a four-day workshop led by director Thierry de Mey in...
[caption id="attachment_3735" align="alignleft" width="224" caption=""Float" by Niomi"][/caption] These Laban Movement Analysis references are something I find difficult to avoid in my everyday vernacular even though few people ever “get” my jokes. Float is a combination of Indirect, Sustained, and Light Effort life while Glide is a combination...
