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All posts tagged "dance film"
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155ReviewsMusic, movement and sound: Jackie O’Riley and Rebecca McGowan’s ‘From the Floor’
Released in 2019.Streaming now. The little gems of art that we can find by chance: it can be sort of amazing. From...
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350Feature ArticlesHofesh Shechter: Unleashing power creatively with dance film ‘Rise’
The hit French film, Rise, by Cédric Klapisch, makes its U.S. debut this month. It tells the story of a ballet dancer...
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187Feature Articles‘Oklahoma!’ starring Hugh Jackman comes to cinemas for two days only this July
Trafalgar Releasing, in partnership with Concord Originals and The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, has announced the international cinema release of the National Theatre’s acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning...
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137ReviewsDance as community, as expression and so much more: OnStage Dance Company’s Season 24 Performance
Boston University Dance Theater, Boston, MA.Accessed virtually. “Great artists find a way to be themselves within their art,” once affirmed the iconic...
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4.0KReviewsMotion State Dance Festival 2023: Branching out and taking risks
The Wilbury Theatre Group, WaterFire Arts Center, Providence, RI.March 10, 2023. “Take a risk!” I can’t count how many times I’ve heard...
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223ReviewsTaking dance film forward: The 51st Annual Dance on Camera Festival 
Film at Lincoln Center, New York, NY.February 10-13, 2023. Dance film didn’t originate in the COVID lockdown era, yet it certainly proliferated...
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221ReviewsKimberly Landle’s ‘KIM’: Dancing out of trauma and into growth
Available via Vimeo.Streaming beginning October 7, 2022. Have you ever thought about which stories we tell, whose stories we tell, how we...
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229Feature ArticlesMake the season bright: ‘Spirited’ and stocking stuffers
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Cozy days at home, gift giving, time with family, dancing to holiday ballets, hot...
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471InterviewsTapping into the holidays: Chloe Arnold on ‘Spirited’
Spirited is a new Christmas movie starring Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds and Octavia Spencer, choreographed by Chloe Arnold of the Syncopated Ladies....
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192Reviews‘Liquid Spine, Cape Ann’: Dance film moving us forward with heart
Cape Ann, Massachusetts.Streaming via Vimeo. In the waning stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the dance world – just like the world at...
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392Feature ArticlesHow Riverdale’s Randa Barett made the leap from dancer to assistant choreographer
Randa Barett describes herself as a dancer first – she loves performance, and has danced for cruise ships, live shows in L.A.,...
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789Feature Articles‘LIFT’: A moving journey from homelessness to the New York ballet stage
Vulcan Productions and Beaufort 9 Films, in association with JustFilms | Ford Foundation and Catapult Film Fund, are pleased to present the...
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693ReviewsThe people behind the movements, illustrated in movement and beyond: Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company’s social justice video series
Released monthly from March 2022.Available at dtsbco.org. People marching together, signs in hand and chants coming deep from their belly: these are...
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755ReviewsOnStage Dance Company ‘Season 21’: A peek behind the camera
Capitol Theater Building, Arlington, MA (and streaming via OnStagedanceco.com).Film screenings January 9-11, and digital program streaming January 9. We all know and...
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730Feature ArticlesDance Films Association and Film at Lincoln Center announce lineup for 50th Dance on Camera Festival
Dance Films Association and Film at Lincoln Center have announced the complete lineup for the 50th edition of the Dance on Camera Festival,...
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1.7KFeature ArticlesDance disguised as everyday life: 5 favorites from the new ‘West Side Story’
There are people who don’t like musicals. (I’m not one of them). A source of their dislike, so they say: why is...
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1.2KReviewsA kaleidoscopic final bow: DANCE NOW’s Fall 2021 digital program
Streaming November 4-30, 2021.Available via dancenow.org. On October 28, 2021, the DANCE NOW board and founders announced the difficult decision to cease...
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1.0KFeature ArticlesShannon Maynor and Alessandro Paganelli release first of 5 dance films
Dancer Shannon Maynor and composer Alessandro Paganelli have released dance film Nuda Veritas, the first part of Five Movements, a series of dance...
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2.0KReviewsThe conviction and commitment of artists using their platform: Artists Climate Collective’s ‘Art to Action’
Available through artistsclimatecollective.org. August 31-September 28, 2021. Artists naturally have a platform; they can speak through their work. Some use that platform to...
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2.1KFeature ArticlesCredit the Creator: An Instagram account for accountability
Do you know who choreographed the handshake in The Parent Trap? No? What about the Jingle Bell Rock dance from Mean Girls? You might...
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1.8KFeature ArticlesCelebrity Dance and the 2021 Senior Crew presents ‘Together We Return’
The 2021 Celebrity Senior Crew, led by the vision of Ashlé Dawson, created a concept video that displays the unimaginable year-and-a-half we...
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1.0KReviewsRevealing the people behind the artists: ALMA NYC’s ‘PLACES: A Look Behind the Curtain’
July 27, 2021.Streaming on YouTube. Sirens blaring, the streets eerily empty, the smell of hand sanitizer and disinfectant in the air, the...
