Starting at the Beginning: Introducing Dance Film to College Students by Sharon Wyrrick When an expressive form integrates multiple mediums, it is difficult to find ways to articulate the diverse creations of its practitioners while preserving what holds it together as a genre. What is dance film? The very fact that...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="259"] Dance Interactive Photo Credits (left to right): Ted Shawn, photo Shapiro Studios; Drew Jacoby, photo Kristi Pitsch; Shantala Shivalingappa, photo C.P. Satyajit[/caption] Dance for Camera This has one good element going for it: The understood idea here is dance that is made to...
Alla Kovgan: Shoemaker by Marta Renzi How does an award-winning filmmaker share her insights and experience in only two hours? Alla Kovgan chose to outline the process of making the short film NORA - from the original decision to focus on Nora Chipaumire as subject/story, to tips on editing. Along the...
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...
