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Testimonials
"The screening was wonderful.
I received a lot of positive feedback from the
community for bringing the festival
to such an "arts starved" area of Texas.
The audience loved the programs! I will be
in touch next year to bring the festival to
Grand Valley State University in Michigan.
Shawn Bible (Texas Tech Univ)
Our event at Emory was a success!
The visual arts audience was especially
intrigued, many spoke about their delight and surprise at the entire dance for camera genre. Choreographers universally said
'we want more!!!'.
Blake Beckham
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
The film screening was a successful and
wonderful addition to the Colorado College extraordinary dance festival.
Our audience was both
moved and amused and generally 'wowed' by how diverse the films are.
Patrizia Herminjard
Colorado College Dance Festival
"I am eternally grateful to
have seen the films.
I hadn't even heard of
"Carmen and Geoffrey," and had
read about "The Cost of Living,"
but had no idea how I could possibly
see it! We grow from (and are enriched by)
exposure to our heritage well as innovations
in the form. I want to thank you
for these wonderful opportunities
and look forward to
the festival in the future."
choreographer Loris Beckles
(Fort Worth, TX)
Become A Touring Partner!
Bring the excitement of dance on camera to your community! Contact DFA to get startedPerfect for a first venture - Host a Lecture
with clips from award winning features, shorts, documentaries, and screen adaptations. $300 - $800.Package A: Innovative shorts
Present winning shorts such as NORA (US/UK), THE COST OF LIVING (UK), SUNSCREEN SERENADE See clipPackage B: Screening plus artists in residence
Book an artist to introduce their films, offer workshops, and/or create a work with the choreographers in the community.Package C: Global dance film series
A natural way to appeal to your entire community and a great way to engage families. See list of suggestionsPackage D : Designed to suit your needs
This package could include documentaries, narratives, shorts, old and new. Also consider films that are related to the dance companies touring in your area, and or to a specific genre, whether ballet or world dance. Another alternative is to include diverse shorts from the Asbury Shorts New York.Contact us about the fee structure to be a touring partner.
See Festival 09 trailer
See Festival 08 trailer
See Festival '07 trailer
Festival 2009 at the Walter Reade Theatre - Read more
Movement Research programs - Read more
Workshop at Dance New Amsterdam Read more
Festival 2008 at Walter Reade Theatre - Read more
Lawyer Peter Jaszi on "Fair Use." Read more
New York State Theatre, Special Seminar Event, Read more
Kinetic Cinema, Collective:Unconscious, Shorts, Read more
Donnell Library Center, 3D with filmmaker Gerald Marks, Read more
BAAD, Shorts and live dance, Read more
Lincoln Center Plaza Cafe, Discussion with director Hans Beenhakker and dancer Prince Credell of SHAKE OFF
Berkeley Carroll School, Loie Fuller, Read more
Alvin Ailey Studios, Awards Ceremony Read more
Spoke The Hub, Documentary screening Read more------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Suggestions to build an audience for your event:
• Start a dance film lab with local dance filmmakers
• Organize a discussion after a showing of a feature film that has dance as a strong component to get people thinking about dance and film.
• Offer a dance for the camera workshop so that the artists in your area have experienced the challenge of making choreography for the screen.
• Secure a local partner(s), a museum, cultural center, or dance company to support your marketing efforts, gain visibility and engage visual arts lovers, as well as a film and dance audience.
• Engage a local dancer, filmmaker, editor as speakers at your event.
• Ask a popular venue to show a trailer of dance on camera, or short by a local filmmaker. Scroll down for marketing suggestions.
Marketing challenges and solutions!
Dance on camera is especially popular when the films have been driven with big budgets, celebrity names and high energy dancing. The box office has been tremendous for such hits as STOMP THE YARD, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, BALLETS RUSSES, and the recent documentary MAD HOT BALLROOM.
For independent films that have small budgets, no recognizable names in the cast or crew, the audiences can be small -- as they are generally for all independent films.
To meet that challenge..., we suggest that you play the search engine game of playing on associations.("If you like _______, you'll like ________) you promote the screenings as the chance to see innovative, imaginative films unlike anything you have seen before, a form that fuses all forms of expression and art. Point out the the appetite for dance on camera, with its omnipresence in commercials, the reality show/competitions, Internet, proliferation of dance film festivals, as well as the hundred year marriage of dance and film since the days of silent films.
Know that the twenty somethings are hungry for anything fresh and unusual; older audiences like the documentaries. Advertisers long ago find that viewers respond to dance as a symbol of happiness, health, sex, strength and grace. Women love the independence of dance on camera to express the ineffable mysteries of life. Men like dance as action, particularly if men are the movers. Children enjoy the variety of dances from around the world, as well as the animation.