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Participate in DFA's Town Hall Meeting and Artist Survey!

Kerry Welsh

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

Kriota Willberg asks: What's the Worst Dance Film Ever?

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“The Bentfootes” by Kriota Willberg & Todd Alcott

At the next Kinetic Cinema on June 2nd, choreographer Kriota Willberg will be presenting a hilarious program of the worst dance films in history. To help her compile her list, she is seeking input from the community. Please comment here with your top picks of the worst dance films, and come out to Kinetic Cinema to see what makes the cut!

From Kriota:

1.  WHAT, IN YOUR OPINION, IS THE WORST DANCE FILM OF ALL TIME, EVER?  It can be a full film or just an excerpt, and any style or type of dance at all, but it has to be on film.

2. WHY?

Please submit your answers in the comments section below by Friday May 16th.
The
reason I’m asking is that I’m putting together an evening of “Bad”
dance film clips.   As many of you know, I’ve been studying bad and
mediocre dance for a number of years.  As I put the program together, I
am organizing examples of different categories of Bad  (offensive,
inept, confusing, etc.) from the early 1900’s to the present.  As an
acknowledgment to the highly personal perception of bad dance, I’d love
to get your input.  Below is the description and particulars of the
night.
Thanks for your time!
Best,

Kriota Willberg

On June 2,
Kinetic Cinema will feature dance films selected by choreographer Kriota
Willberg.  The theme of the evening is The Worst of the Best, a
tour of inspiringly bad dance films from the early 1900’s to the present. Truly
awful dance is powerful art.  We react strongly to it as an audience, we
relate our horrible experiences to our friends and warn them away from it, we
laugh, we seethe, we remember it far longer than “good” dance, and
possibly longer than “great” dance.   Join us for film and discussion
as we chase that ethereal muse, Badness, through the work of generations of
dance film artists.

KINETIC CINEMA
Monday June
2, 7:30pm (and the first Monday of every month)

$5 Admission
(buy tix at the door)

Collective:Unconscious 
279 Church Street (just south of White Street)
New York, NY
10013

Trains: 1 to
Franklin; A, C,
E to Canal

http://weird.org/films.htm
212.254.5277

Kinetic
Cinema at Collective:Unconscious explores the intersection of dance and the
moving image both on screen and stage. Each month curator Anna Brady Nuse
invites 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 influential on their work in some way. The guest curators
come from a range of backgrounds as performers, choreographers, critics, and
filmmakers.

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