The Film Society of Lincoln Center
and Dance Films Association, Inc.
will present the 39th internationally touring

Dance on Camera Festival
and Symposium "Dance and..."
January 28-February 1, 2011

Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2010
Complete entry form

Sponsored by DFA since 1971, and 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 celebrates the immediacy, energy, and mystery of dance as combined with the intimacy of film. 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 collaborate with filmmakers. DFA's Festival has been a revenue source for the dance filmmakers through their touring program since 2000.

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Recent Press
W by James Reginato
Moving Pictures Magazine
Newark Star Ledger by Robert Johnson
Sunday Arts
CityArts by Susan Reiter
New York Times review on Festival opening by Alastair Macaulay
New York Times review on shorts and Alwin Nikolais by Alastair Macaulay
New York Times - animation event by Alastair Macaulay
The New Yorker review by Joan Acocella
Backstage review by Lisa Jo Sagolla
Avivapress/2010
Cinemablend.com

Festival Blog by Artistic Director


Dance on Camera Festival 2010 title descriptions
special events

"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 newkind 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, New York Film/Video Council, Movement Research, Dance New Amsterdam, Beacon School, Anthology Film Archives, Showbiz Software, and the members of DFA. See full list of sponsors