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A conversation with Suzon Fuks
A conversation with Suzon Fuks- told by Brighid Greene
“Welcome to Waterwheel-an interactive, collaborative platform for sharing media and ideas, performance and presentation.”And hello. I’m Brighid Greene, Communications Assocaite of Dance Films Assocaition, And this is John Hoobyar, Program Administrator at Pentacle, and we like to welcome you to our untapped conversation with Suzon Fuks.
“Suzon is an [...]
DFA Digest: November 7
November 7, 2012
DFA PROGRAMS
Tonight!
Beyond the Stage: Moving Men on Screen
November 7, 2012
Live performance at 7:00, Films 7:30-9:00
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, NY, NY 10002
TICKETS ONLY $10.00 FOR DFA
Purchase Tickets
Discount Code: DFAMember10
We’ll be collecting donations to benefit those affected Hurricane Sandy in the lounge. Please bring blankets, warm clothes, canned food, batteries, and flash lights.
Hosted by Vernon Scott, Featuring:
Choreography [...]
Hurricane Sandy’s impact on DFA
November 1st, 2012
Dear Dance Films Association community,
For those who faced Hurricane Sandy, we send our best wishes and hope everyone is dry, safe, and in high spirits.
Dance Films Association’s offices are out of power as we’re south of 34th Street, but it looks like we’ll be back next week and will work remotely until then. [...]
Review of The Dumb Girl of Portici
Review of The Dumb Girl of Portici
By Melissa Silvestri
As part of MoMA’s Tenth Annual To Save and Project Festival, the silent film, The Dumb Girl of Portici, was screened. This film, an historical epic directed by pioneer feminist filmmaker Lois Weber and starring the legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova in her only feature film appearance, was an [...]
DFA Digest: October 24
October 24, 2012
DFA PROGRAMS
Dance Film Lab
TONIGHT! Moderated Screening led by Zach Morris
October 24, 2012
7:30pm-10:00pm
Dance New Amsterdam, Theater
280 Broadway (entrance on 35 Chambers)
Email brighid@dancefilms.org to screen and RSVP.
FREE for DFA or DNA Members; $10 for Non-Members
UP NEXT! Distribution with Liz Wolff
November 28, 2012
7:30pm-10:00pm
Dance New Amsterdam, Studio 6
280 Broadway (entrance on 35 Chambers)
Email brighid@dancefilms.org to RSVP.
The focus of this panel is to arm [...]
DFA Digest: October 10
October 10, 2012
DFA PROGRAMS
Dance on Camera Festival Submissions Extended!
SUBMIT: Deadline- October 15, 2012
Entry fee is free to DFA members;
$30 for non-members
Become a Member
Visit our website for more information
Dance on Camera Festival Submissions
We welcome screen adaptations of stage choreographies, narratives, documentaries, abstract and experimental shorts as well as performance videos.
BAC Flicks: The Space in Back of You
Co-presented [...]
Bob Curtis- Dancing All Colors
BOB CURTIS – DANCING ALL COLORS
(working title)
Feature documentary, Recipient of DFA’s 2011 Post-Production Grant
Directed and produced by: Christoph Dostal
The story of Bob Curtis is an unusual and inspiring one in the annuals of dance. He emerged from a family history of slavery in the South in the United States to become a pioneer in the [...]
Film in Progress—an event with DFA
Film in Progress—an event with DFA
By Jody Oberfelder (with Jason Bahling)
Notes on a work in progress are always helpful. What you see is not always what others see. Usually for me they are notes on a live dance, we edit and it shifts, still breathing. Film, on the other hand becomes fixed. Once it’s in the [...]
Facebook Marketing for Filmmakers
Facebook Marketing for Filmmakers
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
Presented by Reid Rosefelt at New York Foundation for the Arts
by Yuki Akiyama
Almost every filmmaker uses Facebook fan pages to promote their films, but almost none of them use them effectively. Few know how to build a fan base; even fewer know how to get [...]
Last chance to become a DFA Member at current rate!
October, 2012
Become a MEMBER and MOVE with us!
FILMS THAT MOVE!
On the heels of a successful series at Stuyvesant Cove Park for the Solar Powered Film Series: Films That Move, here’s a quick recap of the past year’s growth. In January, DFA broke Dance on Camera Festival box office records at our 40th annual event with [...]