Drive-in dance films, a music premiere with dance, week 2 of global dance films, a pandemic postponed concert is NOW, more dance films, plus online encores, where to submit dance videos, where to take online dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. Author’s note: Many of the dance events and classes rounded up below …
Like an earthquake, the initial impact of the coronavirus shutdown was a seismic shock. Necessary to stem the virus’ spread, but coming at the peak of the spring dance season. Scheduled performances, and then entire spring and summer seasons were cancelled. Dance studios, dance schools, pilates, yoga and other studios shuttered. Then like a flock …
Dance is an irresistible and irrepressible impulse. Even with the Covid-19 lockdown, dancers gotta keep dancin’. As the stay at home order extends through May, live performances are likely to be in the last stage of reopening, maybe summer? SoCal dance won’t be back in theaters soon, but is alive, adapting, and finding fertile possibilities …
A festival in West L.A. opens with a giant harp, a throng of choreographers vie in Hollywood, a dance film festival continues downtown and an Orange County contemporary troupe troops to Palm Desert, in SoCal dance this week. 4. Praise-winning triptych Choreography by Complexions Contemporary Ballet artistic director Dwight Rhoden is one of three works …
Last chance for soaring swans in knickers, first chance for four days of dance films, and some basement dancing, three events launching SoCal dance in 2020. 3. Noises heard under the stairs After successfully graduating in film and media studies, but not so much with her minor in writing, Alea Olivas traveled about the West …
April is always the harbinger of the first real taste of Spring in Los Angeles, and with that come the Easter and Passover holidays, and of course Dance Camera West’s Annual Dance Film Festival (DCW), now in its 17th year. The latter invariably brings a bevy of beautiful international dance films, both short and longer …
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As film increasingly becomes the accessible, go to medium for capturing and publicizing the art and international language of dance, Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival continues to receive submissions from around the world in all categories and we are excited by what we are seeing! So many dancers and choreographers are stepping up …
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Spring is here and and so is the Los Angeles based non-profit Dance Camera West’s 16th Annual Dance Media Film Festival. As always, Dance Camera West (DCW) screens the best of internationally sourced dance films, a genre that is under the radar yet frequently ends up informing or becoming the source of inspiration for many, …
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This week’s SoCal dance events include dance on public art in Culver City, flamenco in East Hollywood, political dance downtown to benefit Planned Parenthood, contemporary dance in Glassell Park, dance and live music at Southwest College, and so much more. 5. Togethering Rebecca Lemme’s Acts of Matter and Andrea Gise’s Dance Aegis reunite for a …
In 1990, when Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin was appointed Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company, it launched both him and his internationally assembled group of dancers into a new phase that has influenced the approach to contemporary dance and choreography worldwide. Although he didn’t begin formal training until the relatively late (for a dancer) age …
It’s that time of the year again… As we begin morphing from Spring into Summer, ‘tis the season once again for film festivals. And of course this would include one of the West Coast’s premiere festivals exploring the unique, vital, and international genre of dance on film, the 15th Annual Dance Camera West Dance Media …
When I worked with Dance Camera West, we often had discussions about what constituted the difference between a dance film and a music video that featured dance. These discussions were compelling and often difficult to resolve, especially when a popular recording artist employed a well-known stage choreographer of great artistic integrity. Some felt that a …
The Demand for Love on ScreenDance Diaries was first published on July 2, 2014. At the opening night of this year’s Dance Camera West, one of the biggest standouts for me was a beautiful short from Norway called The Demand for Love. The film opens with a young girl, likely not more than six or …
The genre of films exploring the intersection of dance and the camera has long been appreciated and cultivated, if somewhat of a niche art form. Beyond the earliest classic and iconic Hollywood song and dance features, screen dance made some of its initial strides with the experimental films of Maya Deren (1917-1961), who was also …
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