Close up on choreography for the camera.Dance on film is sprouting up everywhere. Dancers and choreographers looking for a creative outlet are teaming up with video and filmmakers. In some cases, inspired by what they see at festivals, they've grabbed a camera themselves to try something new. Dance on Camera's 33rd Annual Festival, NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City January 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, 2005 www.dancefilmsassn.org This year the festival has culled about 50 films from 250 entries from 20 countries--more than ever before. Founded by the Dance Films Association in 1971, it shows experimental films, fantasy films, and documentaries. The main showings are at the Walter Reade Theater (co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center). Screenings, panel discussions, and workshops will be held in the gallery of Dance Theater Workshop Dance Theater Workshop is a New York City performance space and service organization for dance companies. Located on West 19th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, DTW was founded in 1965 by Jeff Duncan, Art Bauman and Jack Moore as a choreographers' collective. , the New York Public Library New York Public Library, free library supported by private endowments and gifts and by the city and state of New York. It is the one of largest libraries in the world. (both the Donnell Media Center and the Grand Army Branch in Brooklyn), and the Puffin Room in SoHo. You can also view selections from the festival at Dance on Camera's Touring Partner Sites: Glenridge Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. in Sarasota, FL; Jacob Burns Center in Pleasantville, NY; Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, chartered and incorporated (1870) after a decision by the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pool their collections of art objects and house them in adequate public galleries. in Boston, MA; University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. in Ann Arbor, MI; Citydance in Washington, DC; The Yard in Martha's Vineyard, MA; Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT; Belcourte Theatre in Nashville, TN; Virginia Commonwealth University Formed by a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968, VCU has a medical school that is home to the nation's oldest organ transplant program. in Richmond, VA; Ohio State University's Department of Dance in Columbus, OH; Florida State University Florida State University, at Tallahassee; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1857. Present name was adopted in 1947. Special research facilities include those in nuclear science and oceanography. in Tallahassee, FL; Cinema K. Suns in Riga, Latvia; Kannon Dance Company/Pro Arte in St. Petersburg, Russia. Find dates and times on the website above. Dance Camera West Summer Festival, Los Angeles June 2005 www.dancecamerawest.org A young shoot of a festival, Dance Camera West celebrates not only dance films, but also innovative ways of viewing them. In addition to screenings, installations, symposiums, and workshops at the Ford Amphitheatre, REDCAT REDCAT The Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater Theatre, The Getty Center, and the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Hammer Museum, films may be projected onto six-inch monitors, brick walls, or urban forests. According to co-director Kelly Hargrave, DCW attracts dancers as well as people "who would be afraid of dance and are comfortable with film." Other U.S. Festival Showings ADF (1) (Application Development Facility) An IBM programmer-oriented mainframe application generator that runs under IMS. (2) (Automatic Document Feeder) A paper stacker that feeds one sheet of paper at a time into the unit. Dancing for the Camera: International Festival of Film and Video Dance www.americandancefestival.org UCI Film Festival www.dancefilm.arts.uci.edu/ International Festivals: Cinedans Amsterdam (Netherlands) www.cinedans.nl Constellation Change Screen Dance Festival (UK) www.constellation-change.co.uk Dance on Screen, The Place (UK) www.theplace.org.uk Dancescreen/IMZ (Austria) www.imz.at II Coreografo Elettronico (Italy) www.napolidanza.com International Festival of Films on Art (Canada) www.artfifa.com International Video-dance Festival of Buenos Aires (Argentina) www.videodanzaba.com.ar ITF Golden Prague (Czech Republic) www.czech-tv.cz/specialy/goldenprague/en_index.php Mediawave Festival (Hungary) www.mediawavefestival.com Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video (Canada) www.movingpicturesfestival.com/ ReelDance International Dance on Screen Festival (Australia) www.oneextra.org.au/reeldance/index.htm Riccione TTV Festival (Italy) www.fanaticaboutfestivals.it/ttvriccioneing.html Salerno Film Festival (Italy) www.shadowline.it Seoul Net and Film Festival (Korea) www.senef.net SK Culture Foundation (Germany) www.sk-kultur.de/videotanz Ultima Film, Dans for Kamera (Norway) www.dance.no Videodance Festival/International Thessaloniki Film Festival (Greece) www.filmfestival.gr/index_uk.htm For more workshops, resources, and samples of dance films: www.dtw.org/digital.cfm,www.theplace.org.uk, www.adfvideo.com For ways to produce collaborative films: www.bampro.com |
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