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All posts tagged "dance films"
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51ReviewsEnjoying it all together: Alive Dance Collective’s ‘SHIFT’
Mass Motion Dance Studios, Brighton, MA (viewed via livestream).April 26, 2025. An evening-length work with a strong prevailing theme and atmosphere, or...
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460ReviewsJoy is the thing: OnStage Dance Company’s Season 27 Performance
Boston University Dance Theater, Boston, MA.January 18, 2025 (viewed virtually). A wide smile, an expansive reach, a sassy shoulder roll. These can...
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605ReviewsDance on Camera Festival 2025: Dance film persisting
Symphony Space, New York, NY.February 21-24, 2025, viewed via press screeners. The world locked down in early 2020 – yet dance artists...
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403Feature ArticlesBig questions, universal themes, disparate dances: IMGE Dance’s ‘(no)man’
Speaking with dancemaker Ishita Mili feels like an encounter with a kaleidoscope of qualities: joy and the sadness of past experience, erudition...
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347ReviewsA tale of two films: ‘O Superman, Come Home’ and ‘LAKE BODIES’ through Artists Climate Collective
Advocacy and activism through art is nothing new – but Artists Climate Collective demonstrates a dynamic and forward-thinking model for such work....
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610Feature ArticlesKaren Kain and Neve Campbell in ‘Swan Song’: A classic with modern day sensibilities
The magic of ballet is the effortless way it appears onstage. Watching a performance onstage can take the audience to a mystical...
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559Feature Articles52nd Dance on Camera Festival highlights dance innovators
Dance on Camera and Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) presents the 52nd edition of the Dance on Camera Festival from February 9-12....
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492Feature Articles‘Call Me Dancer’: The journey of a Mumbai street dancer
The new, inspirational documentary, Call Me Dancer, will be in theaters starting December 15. A story of perseverance, passion, culture and an...
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594ReviewsMusic, 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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894Feature 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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697Feature 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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10.6KReviewsMotion 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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702ReviewsTaking 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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689ReviewsKimberly 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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1.5KInterviewsTapping 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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667Reviews‘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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2.9KFeature 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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1.4KReviewsThe 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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1.2KReviewsOnStage 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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1.1KFeature 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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3.0KFeature 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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1.7KReviewsA 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...
