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Grant opportunity: Dance Films Association Post-production funding
Dance Films Association members may apply for DFA’s annual post-production grants ranging from $250 to $2,500. This program is open to filmmakers, choreographers or dancers. Awards will be announced in July 2010.
Proposals should include DVD or VHS of work-in-progress, budget, distribution plans, biographies of key members of the creative team, and a one page description of the project including how funds will be used. There is no form to fill, simply supply the above information.
DFA membership information can be found at http://www.dancefilms.org
Join us at the 2010 Dance on Camera Festival in NYC Jan 25-Feb 2nd
The Film Society of Lincoln Center
and Dance Films Association, Inc.
proudly present
Dance on Camera Festival
January 25 – February 2, 2010
Imago-by Alwin Nikolais
Co-sponsored by The Film Society of Lincoln Center since 1996, Movement Research since 2008, TenduTv and Mark Morris Dance Center since 2010, Dance On Camera Festival (DOCF) celebrates the immediacy, energy, and mystery of dance as combined with the intimacy of film. Festival 2010 will include a tribute to Alwin Nikolais as part of a year long centennial celebration across the country in his honor.
2010 Schedule and NYC Locations of Dance on Camera Events
January 25, 7pm, Mark Morris Dance Center
3 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn Read details
January 26, 7pm, Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, NYC
event curated and co-sponsored by Movement Research Read details
January 28, 2pm, The Beacon School, 227 W 61st Street, NYC Read details
January 29-February 2, Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center Plaza
4 shows daily – see schedule
January 31, 1pm, Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery, Town Hall Meeting read details
Buy Tickets for screenings at the Walter Reade Theatre
Dance on Camera Festival 2010 Tickets:
$11 General Public
$9 Affiliate (Friends of DFA)
$8 Senior (62+)
$7 Film Society Member/ DFA Member/ Student/ Child
Three Program Sampler Pass:
$27 General Public
$21 Senior (62+)
$18 Film Society Member/ DFA Member/ Student
Admits one person to three programs in Dance On Camera.
Buy Tickets and Passes Online Now!
Tickets are also on sale at the Walter Reade Theater Box Office,
165 West 65th St. between Amsterdam Avenue & Broadway,
and at CenterCharge, 212-721-6500.
Read Festival Blog by Artistic Director
See which artists scheduled to appear
During the 2010 Dance on Camera Festival, Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at the Walter Reade Theatre will house an installation, “The Tiny Dance Film Series” a collaboration between choreographer Peter Kyle and sound artist James Bigbee Garver that consists of very short and very small dance films screened in 4 darkened kiosks for an audience of one.
Susan Braun began this festival in 1971 to connect dance film producers with users and distributors, to spur dancers on to preserve their work on film and to be open to filmmakers wishing to make documentaries about them and/or to collaborate on screen adaptations of their choreography. For almost twenty years, DFA’s Festival was the sole showcase dedicated to dance films in the world. For the last ten years, DFA’s Festival has offered a revenue source for the dance filmmakers through their tours.
“The Dance on Camera Festival is one of those NY stealth events, prized by its devotees…where the allusiveness of dance meets the intimacy of film to create a new kind of magic” John Rockwell, The New York Times
The Dance on Camera Festival 2010 is sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Canadian Consulate General, French Cultural Service, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, American Airlines, Mark Morris Dance Center, TenduTv, Gotham Wine and Liquors, Ariston Florist, New York Women in Film and Television, and the members of DFA. See full list of sponsors
The program for the digital component of Dance on Camera Festival hosted by Tendu.TV will be announced shortly.
Join the fun!
Participate in DFA's Town Hall Meeting and Artist Survey!
photo: Kerry Welsh
Calling all dance film-makers:
To close out this year’s Dance On Camera Festival, the Dance Films Association is holding a Town Hall Meeting for the Dance on Camera Community on Saturday January 17th from 4-7pm taking place in the Gallery at Walter Reade Theater (Lincoln Center Plaza on 65th Street btw Broadway and Amsterdam).
The meeting will begin with a half hour panel discussion led by Marlon Barrios-Solano dedicated to new on-line platforms for screendance with representatives from Kaltura and TenduTV. Following this, you are invited to participate in an open discussion about dance film issues that are important to you (moderated by Zach Morris from the Dance Film Lab). After the meeting, you are invited to continue the conversation informally over coffee/tea at the nearby Le Pain Quotidien at 60 West 65th Street.
In conjunction with this event, I have collaborated with DFA to produce an artist survey of the field. If you are unable to attend, we would still like to get your input to help us improve our services and programs for you. Whether you are currently making dance for screen, or thinking about doing so, we want to hear from you about what your needs and interests are. Please take a moment to participate in this brief online survey.
Take this survey
Thank you for your participation, your feedback is very important to us. We look forward to compiling the results and will share them with you here in the early spring.
-Anna Brady Nuse
New Dance Film Lab Friday Jan 25th at DTW!
“Fünf ‘n’ Twist” by Anna Brady Nuse, photo: M. Saijo
Join us for a special Friday night Dance Film Lab as we celebrate our first meeting in our new home at Dance Theater Workshop! Please contact Zach Morris to RSVP. If you are interested in presenting material at this lab, we have room for one more artist to show work.
Meeting Details
Dance Film Lab
Friday, January 25, 8-10pm
at Dance Theater Workshop (DTW)
219 West 19th Street
(between 7th and 8th Aves)
Phone: (212) 691-6500
Click Here for DTW’s website
The Dance Film Lab is moderated and organized by Zach Morris (Third Rail Projects), produced and run with the assistance of Kathleen Green, and in cooperation with the Dance Films Association. Hosted by Dance Theater Workshop, this salon brings dance filmmakers together to present raw footage, drafts, works-in-progress and newly finished films to their peers for constructive feedback, to share information, and address technical, practical and artistic challenges. The lab is free and open to the public, though reservations are necessary.
Contact Zach Morris for more information and to RSVP.
Kinetic Cinema Screening Jan. 7th
Happy New Year! What better way to start 2008 than by seeing some wicked cool dance films and videos? On Monday January 7th at 7:30pm I will present a special program of of international dance film shorts in conjunction with the Dance Films Association’s 36th Dance On Camera Festival. This program is part of Kinetic Cinema, a videodance screening series happening on the first Monday of each month at Collective:Unconscious in Tribeca. After the Jan 7th kick-off event I will invite a special guest from the dance community each month to show films and videos that have inspired their work in dance. Come see why dance and film go together as well as chocolate and peanut butter (or champagne and chocolate-dipped strawberries)!
Feist’s 1234
Kinetic Cinema
Monday January 7th 7:30pm (and the first Monday of every month thereafter)
$5 Admission
@ Collective:Unconscious
279 Church Street (just south of White Street)
New York, NY 10013
www.weird.org
TICKETS: 212.352.3101
VENUE:212.254.5277
For the Dance On Camera Festival program I have selected seven shorts from among 200+ festival entries that represent some of the freshest new visions by leading dance filmmakers today. The program includes “1234″ – an award-winning music video by Feist directed by Patrick Daughters with choreography by Noemi LaFrance (who will be in attendance); “BLUE” – a suspended moment before a pianist begins to play by Elif Isikozlu; “PANORAMA ROMA” – a rotating timelapse film shot over 24 hours in the center of Rome by Italian choreographer Anna de Manincor; “RAVEN STUDY” – a sleek duet between a beautiful Louise Brooks-like dancer and a Rock drummer by Charlotte Griffin; “ANIMALZ” – a crew of urban b-boys from Brighton that go feral by Sergio Cruz; “PLANT” – a haunting exploration of a decaying bomb factory by The Body Cartography Project and Olive Beiringa; and “NOT ABOUT IRAQ” – a dance film that questions the relationship of words and experience, government rhetoric and reality by choreographer Victoria Marks with dancer Taisha Paggett.
Click here for a video preview of Feist’s “1234″.
Kinetic Cinema explores the intersection of dance and the moving image both on screen and stage. Each month I will invite a special guest from the dance community to share the films and videos that have inspired or moved them. These could be films that feature dance, are kinetic-based, or have been influencial on their work in some way. The guest curators will come from a range of backgrounds as performers, choreographers, critics, and filmmakers. Upcoming guests include Brian McCormick (Feb 4th), Jonah Bokaer (April 7th), Levi Gonzalez (May 5th), and Kriota Willberg (June 2nd).
DFA’s 36th, annual internationally touring Dance on Camera Festival & Symposium January 2-19, 2008
DFA’s 36th annual Dance On Camera Festival is the oldest dance film/video festival in the world that sparked an explosion of activity amongst artists, curators, writers and a curious audience. The Festival has been co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center since 1996 and has toured to over 70 venues internationally.
For festival schedule, tickets and info: www.dancefilms.org
