GAFFE
48 Hour Challenge

Alliance with on-line channels
DFA works to explore on-line opportunities for its members, dance film artists and educators on an on-going basis. Recent partnerships with DFA include dancemedia.com; and a premier performance venue, Tendu.tv, which is designed with the goal of providing revenue for dance companies.

Choreographers Initiative/ Susan Braun Award
Initially designed in 2007 as an opportunity for emerging New York City choreographers, the winning choreographer/filmmaker team won a cash award and a team of mentors to create a short work and/or adapt a stage choreography for the camera, with a grant from DFA named after DFA founder, the late Susan Braun. Michelle Mola is the 2008 winner; Austin McCormick was the 2007 winner. The 2009 initiative took the form of the 48 Hour Challenge/What Moves You?

Dance Film Lab
A marvelous community-building, bi-monthly series hosted by Dance Theatre Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, New York. Filmmakers join together to present raw footage, drafts, works-in-progress and new films to their peers for constructive feedback, share information, and address technical, practical and artistic challenges. Free and open to public. Read a review of the first Lab in October, '06. To attend and/or present in the Labs, contact Zachary Morris.

Defining the Capture An experiential dance film lab in which a select group of filmmakers and dancers support DFA member filmmakers in the pre-production process. The first pilot began March 4th by supporting Deborah Greenhut in her search to devise a lexicon for the use of breath in dance, and find the imagery to portray it. This project attempts to decipher the specific challenges and solutions to filming dance, beginning with Breath and continuing to analyze how best to depict energy, depth, partnering, turns, jumps, falls, and more.

Fiscal Sponsorships Read about current film projects

Recent efforts by DFA to further the art of dance films

* Alliance with Kaltura, an on-line editing platform

* Commission video to draw Festival entries. See POOL PERMIT

* Dance Camera China. Read more

* Installations at Dance New Amsterdam (read more)

* Retreats for DFA Board of Directors

* Silent dance films/live music at New Museum of Contemporary Art

* "What Moves You?" 48 Hour Challenge dance (read more)