Dance on Camera Festival 2020
Dance Films Association and Film at Lincoln Center present the 48th edition of the Dance on Camera Festival, running July 17-20, 2020. With a program that travels the globe from Ireland to Argentina to Kazakhstan, the festival will be presented digitally for the first time and provide unprecedented access to the longest-running dance film festival in the world.
Tickets are now on sale! All films will be available starting at the exact Program time it is scheduled (available on each film page) and will be available for 72 hours after purchase.
This yearâs festival includes a variety of features and shorts, opening with the U.S. premiere of an intimate look at celebrated choreographer, Maguy Marin. Maguy Marin: Time to Act includes stunning footage of live performances and the screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Marin and director David Mambouch. Highlights from the Shorts program include hand-painted animation in Peter Sparlingâs Cornered (Detaineeâs Lament) and a timely, passionate exploration of race and political activism in Susan Misnerâs Bend.Â
 The festivalâs DFA Global program, an initiative which provides a platform of support and dialogue with global screen dance filmmakers, includes Peter Vulchevâs confessional conversations with prima ballerina Vessa Tonova in A Monologue in the Intermission; Cara Holmesâ short film Welcome To A Bright White Limbo from Ireland about Belfast based dancer and choreographer, Oona Doherty, and the creative process of her award winning, âHope Hunt;â and Dana Mussa and Alexander Murphyâs KIELI BI, recounting through dance the journey of a womanâs return to Kazakhstan after 8 years dancing in Paris.
 There is also an opportunity for creators to submit their original two-minute films to be considered for this yearâs #mydancefilm program. The special release of selected films will take place on the final day of the festival. Participants are invited to portray how âIsolationâ manifests itself in their lives during these days of social distancing. Using the hashtags #mydancefilm with #docf17thru20julyâand tagging @dancefilmsâfilms may be posted for consideration through June 17 on the filmmakerâs own Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter accounts. Jacob Jonas will be the guest filmmaker in a prerecorded conversation with the selected artists.
Tickets are now on sale! All films will be available starting at the exact Program time it is scheduled (available on each film page) and will be available for 72 hours after purchase.
Maguy Marin: Time to Act
Get tickets! · Program 1 · U.S. Premiere · Opening Night · Post-Screening Conversation
The documentary Maguy Marin: Time to Act offers remarkable footage of live performances, as well as first person interviews with a choreographer whose work is daring, moving and continues to defy convention. The opening night prerecorded conversation with David Mambouch and Maguy Marin is moderated by the festival co-curator, Liz Wolff.Shift by Claire Marshall
Get tickets! · Program 2 · U.S. Premiere · Post-Screening Conversation
Taking an 8-minute duet situated in various locations, and repeated four times, choreographer Claire Marshall investigates how the sense of âstoryâ shifts with the consideration of location, cinematic elements, and editing. The duet explores a discordant couple stuck in a rut, looping manipulative behaviour as four stories eventually shift to become one story. Screening with Natalia Andreadis's World Premiere How Can I Forget. The prerecorded conversation with Claire Marshall, Kevin Holloway, Richard Causer, and Lucy Hood is moderated by Alicia Graf Mack.Land of the Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker
Get tickets! · Program 3 · World Premiere
Now in its 14th year this spectacular holiday show has won the hearts of audiences young and old and created a romping holiday tradition in Seattle. Join us, as we draw back the velvet curtain and follow the show's creators and producers, Lily Verlaine and Jasper McCann, in addition to the show's artisans, performers and musicians, and take an irresistible journey into how this magical show is brought to the stage, snow and all. Screening with Pablo Destito and Agustina Videla's Being, a North American Premiere.DANCING DARKNESS Peggy Baker conjures âwho we are in the dark’
Get tickets! · Program 4 · World Premiere · Post-Screening Conversation
Dancing Darkness explores the distinctively personal and profoundly collaborative creative process through the conjuring of Peggy Bakerâs latest and most ambitious work. The prerecorded conversation with V. Tony Hauser, Ellen Tomie, and Peggy Baker is moderated by Wendy Perron.Revival
Get tickets! · Program 5 · New York Premiere
92-year old Stuart Hodes leads a group of seniors in a dance, inciting a sense of community and hope. This film explores how we can age with joy and reveals the capacity of the older person to experience unrestrained joy and unwavering determination through dance and art.ÂKemp. My best dance is yet to comeÂ
Get tickets! · Program 6 · North American Premiere
This is a captivating profile of a colorful, flamboyant performance artist who worked on West End and Broadway and directed Bowieâs Ziggy Stardust among other intriguing projects.DFA Global: KIELI BI, Welcome to a Bright White Limbo & A Monologue in the Intermission
Get tickets! · Program 7 · Post-Screening Conversation
DFA Global is pleased to present three short films for this international program: KIELI BI filmed in Kazakhstan, Welcome To A Bright White Limbo filmed in Ireland, and A Monologue in the Intermission filmed in Bulgaria bring together the very different stories of three women and their contrasting experiences dancing. The prerecorded conversation with Cara Holmes and Oona Doherty is moderated by Alastair Macaulay.Dance on Camera Shorts Program
Get tickets! · Program 8 · Post-Screening Conversation
Featuring films: How to Sink a Paper Boat by David Bolger, Stages by Angela Rosales Challis, JoAnn by Meredith Slifkin and Emily Yue, Men by Hanna Brotherus, Cornered (Detainee's Lament) by Peter Sparling, and Bend by Susan Misner. The prerecorded conversation with Bendâs Susan Misner, Troy Ogilvie, and Jeffery Duffy is moderated by Gabri Christa.Uprooted – The Journey of Jazz DanceÂ
Get tickets! · Program 9 · World Premiere
The story of Jazz Dance is a complex one and goes to the very heart of humanity. It is a story of triumph over adversity, oppression and privilege, as well as a celebration, because ultimately, what all people have in common is rhythm and a basic human need to get down.Free Programs
Free Program: #mydancefilm Selections
Free Program: Dance Films Presents
Tickets are now on sale! All films will be available starting at the exact Program time it is scheduled (available on each film page) and will be available for 72 hours after purchase.
Single screening tickets are $9 for General Public; $8 for Members; and $5 for Seniors and Students.
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