Renewal is a reflection on art and environmental action. The film profiles a group of dancers – the Vertigo Dance Company – in their pioneering Eco-Arts village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The film explores Vertigo’s unique, accessible methods of green living. Renewal features captivating scenes...
One world is occupied by some of the most acclaimed dancers in the world, the other by people who often struggle to move at all, those with Parkinson's disease. But In 2012 these two different worlds converged at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn as they began...
Buy Tickets: Sunday February 2, 6:00p From the moment of his dramatic leap to freedom at Paris' Bourget Airport in 1961, Rudolf Nureyev was embraced as a ballet idol. On the 20th anniversary of his death, Fabrice Herrault, a notable New York ballet teacher and film...
Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter tells the inspiring and largely unknown story of a woman who quietly struggled for over 75 years to establish Modern Dance as a legitimate art form. From the early pioneering days of the 1920's to the power struggle over control...
Buy Tickets: Monday February 4, 6:00pm Circling is a meditation on place, the passing of time and the cyclical nature of life. Featuring renowned choreographer/dancer Sally Gross and shot at locations including architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, Circling is a poetic rendering of what it...
Buy Tickets: Saturday February 2, 9:00pm Buy Tickets: Tuesday February 5, 5:30pm This short documentary takes place in a tiny New York apartment which can barely contain the combined energy of dancer Arthur Aviles and his mentor, Aileen Passloff. Arthur is a BESSIE & Brio...
In 1970s New York, a powerfully liberating dance culture emerged in the face of social strife and inequality. It fostered a vibrant community of dancers who found their freedom of expression jeopardized by Mayor Giuliani's revival of Prohibition-era Cabaret Laws that make dancing illegal. freedom2dance...
