2011 Post Production Thank you to all who applied for this year's Post Production grant. We are pleased to announce the 2011 recipients! Congratulations to the following members: Christoph Dostal for BOB CURTIS: DANCING ALL COLORS Chithra Jeyaram for FOREIGN PUZZLE Daniele Wilmouth for MARCHING BANNED For previous winners and...
Solar 1 Dance Program Rescheduled due to rain New Date: SEPTEMBER 14th, 2011 Free Solar 1 Green Energy, Arts, and Education Center Stuyvesant Cove Park, 23rd Street and FDR Drive RSVP On September 14th, Dance Films Association will host an evening of live and cinematic works focused on "Dancing in Public". As...
Dance/USA 2011 Annual Conference The Dance/USA 2011 Annual Conference took place July 13th through July 16th in Chicago. Bringing together some of the most prominent voices within the dance community, ranging from artistic directors to executive directors and choreographers to marketing professionals, there was also a...
Dances Made to Order Unlike a prix fixe menu, Dances Made to Order allows you to make a personal selection of multiple tastes that will dictate the outcome of each month's videodance. As the name suggests, you order the dance. How does it work? Once a month...
Topanga Film Festival - Los Angeles, California July 28th- 30th, 2011 Through their dance film program, the Topanga Film Festival will screen seven dance films including the World Premiere of 2 Seconds After Laughter, written and directed by David Rousseve, and the US Premiere of the entire Vías de Vuelo, directed by...
New York Premiere! Presented by Arts World Financial Center - July 9-17 11 am-7 pm daily Sunday July 10 2pm World Financial Center Extraordinary Moves: Express Your Inner Feiffer Dancer A live "dance-in" - Release your inner Dancer while Jules Feiffer creates new cartoons joined by dancer Andrea Weber...
Coming soon, thanks to DFA partner TenduTV, is The Co(te)lette Film, a full-length work choreographed by Ann Van den Broek, recently premiered at Dance Camera West and directed by Oscar-nominated director Mike Figgis. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/15798684 w=300&h=200] Here's what the Los Angeles Times wrote: "At 55 minutes, "Co(te)lette" is...
[caption id="attachment_3351" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="Christy Park, DFA Executive Director"][/caption] It’s been such a pleasure to meet so many members, partners, artists, producers, organizations and friends associated with DFA during my first month at DFA. Last night I went to the NYWIFT event at Anthology Film Archives, and Thursday...
New York Women In Film & Television's screening series celebrating NYWIFT members, is coming right up: June 28 at Anthology Film Archives, NYC. Included in the program of shorts under 20 minutes - "Where Less is More" - is I am I: A Tribute to Margaret Cho,...
[caption id="attachment_3854" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="video still from Sweet & Sour Waltz, by Or Marin, Lior Avizoor"][/caption] Upcoming: ADF's 16th Annual Screendance Festival, directed by Doug Rosenberg as part of the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina, June 24-26. The program features 2 dozen shorts - including...
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 ...
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...
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...
All DFA members are invited to apply for post-production funding for their dance film projects. If you are not currently a member, please sign up! Completed applications should be emailed to: member@dancefilms.org DFA Post Production Funding Application...
Mediated Motion, a new showcase for dance film, as part of LaMama Moves Dance Festival May 24-29, 2011 Map Curated by Billy Clark and Lindsey Medeiros of Culturehub, Mediated Motion is a dance and media art exhibit which showcases 15 artists from around the world. The diverse works explore how video...
[caption id="attachment_3035" align="alignleft" width="144" caption="BREAK, DOCF 2008"][/caption] DFA was recently buoyed by an award of $15,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to support our Dance on Camera Touring Program. Not only will the 2012 Dance on Camera Festival be our 40th, the accompanying Touring Program will...
CALL FOR STUDENT DANCE FILMS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE 2011 DANCE FOR CAMERA FESTIVAL AND WORKSHOP WITH KATRINA MCPHERSON We are looking for student work to be screened on the opening night of the Dance for Camera Festival and Workshop with KATRINA MCPHERSON, September 15, 2011. Submissions must...
Screening of work-in-progress documentary film at Dance Theater Workshop 219 West 19th Street, NYC Sunday, May 22, 2011 7:00 p.m. Use code 20101025 to receive the member price of $7! [caption id="attachment_3448" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Meredith Monk's Girlchild, photo: Lois Greenfield"][/caption] This documentary in progress includes rare archival footage from performances of...
The first event of the expanded Dance Film Lab was a great success, as you can see from the testimony of one of the participants, below. When I go to Dance Film Lab, I am sure to have a good experience. Whether I am showing my...
Many of you visit the DFA website as a resource: for information on the far-flung - and growing! - international network of dance film festivals. Don't stress about the deadlines that have recently passed - jump on the upcoming ones! Here's a list for the...
"Re-staging, Re-constructing, Re-visioning, Re-working" Dance Critics Association - June 9-12, 2011 - Seattle, Washington DCA's annual conference will be focused on reconstruction -- how do we discuss works from the past that are brought forward to the present? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbEU4d0YVS0&feature=related] The conference will be hosted by Pacific Northwest Ballet, whose new production...
You've probably already seen the latest Google Doodle celebrating Martha Graham's birthday. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsPqRKDxDDM] But you may not know that the Graham company member whose dancing was the basis for the animation is Blakely White-McGuire, a DFA member and contributor to the Dance on Camera Journal. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxuuON4C7_Q] Blakely's modest note accompanying the...
Elizabeth Streb's new book, HOW TO BECOME AN EXTREME ACTION HERO, has recently been published by Feminist Press. With an introduction and interview by Anna Deveare Smith, the book pops with provocation, intelligence, humor and energy. Buy the book through the DFA Store and a small portion of the...
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...
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...
