Posts Tagged ‘Dance on Camera Festival’
Weekly Webdance: May 26
In ”enchantress,” Turkish filmmaker Volkan Ergen creates a mysterious, otherworldly landscape, submerging us as voyeurs in a secret ritual. Watch for magical duplicity, fractured movements, layered apparitions, and shifting focus. Enjoy!
http://www.vimeo.com/9844659Join 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!
Join us tonight at Mark Morris Dance Center: NRITYAGRAM: FOR THE LOVE OF DANCE World Premiere
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble of India
At Dance on Camera Festival:
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble of India
The documentary Nrityagram: ‘For the Love of Dance’ tells the story of the Nrityagram Dance Village, and the Dance Ensemble that has made it world famous.
NRITYAGRAM: FOR THE LOVE OF DANCE World Premiere
Nan Melville, USA, 2009, 26M
This painterly portrait of an idyllic dance village near Bangalore offers a taste of the Indian dance style, Odissi.
Protima Bedi institutionalized classical Indian dance through the founding of Nrityagram; a “gurukul” where students could dance and live in close proximity with their master guru.
The internationally renowned Nrityagram Dance Ensemble continues to expand on Protima’s legacy; lead dancer and choreographer, Surupa Sen and Odissi Gurukul Director, Bijayini Satpathy have expanded the language of the traditional Odissi dance through the incorporation of choreographic techniques adapted from world dance. The Ensemble continues to push the boundaries of Indian dance and to perform to worldwide acclaim.
Q & A with director Nan Melville and choreographer Mark Morris, founder of the Mark Morris Dance Group, to follow screening.
Based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the Mark Morris Dance Center fulfills the mission of the Mark Morris Dance Group to serve as a cultural resource to engage and enrich the community.
For directions, please see www.mmdg.org/directions.
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
Pioneer Dance Film Educator, Ellen Bromberg at Kinetic Cinema
Dance for the Camera Workshop
On Wednesday January 14th, Kinetic Cinema will kick off it’s new season at Chez Bushwick with special guest curator Ellen Bromberg, a professor of dance at University of Utah and a pioneer educator of dance for the camera.
photo: Kirk Schwartz
Bromberg will show dance films created by choreographers and filmmakers who have attended her workshops in Victoria, BC and Regina, Saskatchewan over the past five years. These workshops have attracted experienced artists in many genres providing them with the opportunity to explore dance film as a new way of seeing and framing the moving body.
Over the years there have been many notable teachers and alumni of Bromberg’s Dance for the Camera Workshops. Former guest teachers have included Bob Lockyer (former producer at the BBC) and Douglas Rosenberg (video artist). Attendees have included Karen Kaeja (Co-Artistic Director of Kaeja d’Dance in Toronto), Kelly Hargraves (L.A. film-maker), Christopher House (Artistic Director of Toronto Dance Theater), Marta Renzi (New York choreographer and film-maker), Alejandro Valbuena (Filmmaker from Bogotá, Columbia), and Lee Henderson (Visual Artist from Univ. of Regina). Ellen Bromberg, recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, is a choreographer, media artist, dance film curator and educator. Her choreography and films have been seen throughout the world and she has received numerous awards and grants for her work. Ellen is currently an Associate Professor of Modern Dance at the University of Utah.
Here are all the details:
Kinetic Cinema
Wed. January 14, 8pm
Tickets: $10 (pay at door)
Chez Bushwick
304 Boerum St., Buzzer #11
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Trains: L to Morgan Street, exit back of the train. Turn LEFT outside the station. Turn LEFT onto Boerum Street
In addition to curating this screening, Ellen is organizing four workshops in New York during the Dance On Camera Festival from January 6-9, 2009 2-4pm at Dance New Amsterdam. For more information and to sign up for a workshop click here.
Kinetic Cinema explores the intersection of dance and the moving image both on screen and stage. Each month Pentacle’s director of Movement Media, Anna Brady Nuse invites a special guest from the fields of dance and the media arts to share films and videos that have inspired or moved them. These could be works for screen that feature dance, are kinetic-based, or have been influential on their work in some way.
Kinetic Cinema is a co-presentation of Chez Bushwick and Pentacle, and is part of “PRIME MOVER: Dance on Camera From Chez Bushwick” a weekly dance, visual & media arts series each Wednesday at Chez Bushwick in Brooklyn. The series includes Kinetic Cinema on the second Wednesdays of the month, Prime Mover (curated by Jonah Bokaer and other guest artists) in the third Wednesdays, and artist-moderated topical Salons on the fourth Wednesdays.
If you would like to receive announcements and email up-dates about future Kinetic Cinema programs please send us an email.
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Post Script:
For anyone interested in taking Ellen’s Dance for the Camera Workshop this summer in Victoria, BC, there is a special early bird discount for the workshop being offered right now in honor of her Kinetic Cinema program. Check it out here.
