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High School Student Film Competition Workshop with Deirdre Towers
November 15, 2011 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Free
Tuesday, November 15th
1:00pm-2:30pm
Beacon School- Computer/ Digital Film Lab (room 323)
Deirdre Towers, curator of the Dance on Camera Festival, will lead an Advanced Film Class, touching on the history of dance film accompanied by interesting footage and speaking on what it means to begin working in the dance film genre.
Deirdre Towers
Deirdre Towers has produced the Dance on Camera Festival, co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, from 1995 until the present. Her training as a producer began through working for the Theatre Guild on the Broadway production “Musical Jubilee,” and subsequently working for documentary filmmaker Peter Rosen on several projects related to music. She has written about dance film and flamenco for over twenty publications, including Dance Magazinewhere she worked for 5 years, and served on the juries of Dance Screen, Grand Prix de Video Danse, the International Emmys, and the American Dance Festival. As a dancer/choreographer, she has performed at a wide variety of venues. She has been a teaching artist for City Center during the Flamenco Festival since 2006, for American Ballet Theatre for 3 Summer Intensives, and for Maria Benitez’ Institute of Spanish Arts for 6 summers. A graduate of Hamilton College with a Masters in Arts Administration from NYU, Deirdre studied dance and drumming in Ghana through World Learning