The New York City–based Dance on Camera film festival, heading into its 54th year, recently named Cara Hagan its new executive director. Hagan brings a wealth of experience in the realms of both dance and film, as a filmmaker, curator, scholar, writer, and college educator. In 2010, she became the first Black woman to create […]

Film gave artists a lifeline during the pandemic. The challenge now is how to keep going. Will audiences—and artists—continue investing in dance on film?

The Park City, Utah–based Sundance Film Festival is one of the world’s preeminent film festivals, but even though there is a plethora of dance on film, there is usually not much dance represented at the festival. This year, however, there were three opportunities for those who are both film and dance fans to indulge the […]

Jacob Jonas The Company’s Films.Dance is back with a second round, dropping a new dance film every Monday this fall. One of those is “Chambers,” choreographed by Jerron Herman and performed by Royal Ballet of Flanders’ Daniel Domenech in the architecturally lush FARYS water silo in Beersel, Belgium. As Domenech folds and flings his body, […]

The field of screendance is chock-full of artists redefining what it means to make dance, and to create films. Now that the pandemic has put a spotlight on the genre, it’s time to highlight some of the artists. The following nine screendance makers, collectives and production companies represent a variety of aesthetic approaches to the […]

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, rising musician Antonio José Martínez Palacios was executed without a trial at just 33 years old. To pay tribute, the Madrid-based Marco Flores Dance Company teamed up with filmmaker Jaime Dezcallar to revisit and reimagine his music through this dance film. To a stirring original score by […]

Filmmaker Jeremy Jacob has some advice: “Let people know if you want to collaborate.” Their own recent collaborations include “Dear Merce,” with Netta Yerushalmy, and “David,” with Pam Tanowitz for American Ballet Theatre, starring David Hallberg. Jacob discovered dance as a student at Parsons School of Design, when the study of film and picture making […]