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All posts tagged "dance films"
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197ReviewsMusic, 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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394Feature 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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217Feature 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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7.1KReviewsMotion 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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229ReviewsTaking 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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231ReviewsKimberly 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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492InterviewsTapping 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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202Reviews‘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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807Feature 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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700ReviewsThe 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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766ReviewsOnStage 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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739Feature 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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1.3KReviewsA 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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1.1KFeature 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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2.1KFeature 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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1.0KReviewsRevealing 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...
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1.3KReviewsThe third annual ‘Empower One Another’: Empowerment through having a voice and a choice
July 23-July 27, 2021.Streaming on YouTube. One might think that artists having a voice is just something that naturally happens. Art involves...
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1.3KFeature Articles‘AILEY’ documentary is in movie theaters nationwide
Director Jamila Wignot’s powerful AILEY documentary, a resonant biography of trailblazing visionary Alvin Ailey, opens is now playing in movie theaters nationwide. Heralded as a...
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909Reviews‘Embodied Activism’: The body persisting
Outside of the St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, NY (also unlisted on YouTube).Earth Day 2021 (March 22, 2021). When...
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1.2KFeature ArticlesWinifred Haun & Dancers announces 2021-22 season
Chicago-based Winifred Haun & Dancers will return to in-person theater events and live programming for the upcoming 2021-22 season. The company will...
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2.7KFeature ArticlesHavana Film Festival New York returns in September
The 21st Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) is back in theaters from September 17-23, with an exceptional program of over 30 films...
