Generalizations about the dance world are guaranteed to drop by the wayside tomorrow and Sunday afternoon when five marvelously offbeat dance films from Canada, Russia and the US will be screened at the Walter Reade Theatre." Anna Kisselgoff, New York Tmes, December 1996

"If the medium of 'film' and the notion of human movement are combined, in order for something meaningful to appear to happen, there must be a structure that guarantees that both media are represented in the most effective technical mix.This leads onto another of the great challenges of mixing film and dance. As with computers, "garbage in will mean garbage out". Banal, silly, badly executed or poorly motivated choreographic design does not get obscured or camouflaged by clever filming and facile editing - it becomes amplified by it. The dancefilm maker has to be even more assiduous and focused on the choreographic and filmmaking choices made. These challenges are easily addressed by simply looking at every movement as if it were to be captured on film."
Sandy Strallin, founder of London Dance Film Festival Read more www.channel4.com

I looked at the program being shown in the festival (London Dance Film Festival) and found it to be uninspiring, full of superlative descriptions (the best ever seen on the screen) that only diminished the seeming worth of the works, and with very little attempt to present what is a burgeoning genre with new works made all the time. There seemed to be little interest on the part of the curator and in the article in truly experimental works. I am revealing my bias here of course, but I think there are many many artists creating work that has nothing to do with Fred Astaire or Edouard Lock for that matter. And there are ways to talk about and show that work which open up potential audiences to new experiences rather than, as Douglas (Rosenberg) says, reinforcing stereotypes. Here here! Helene Lesterlin (EMPAC)

"Among the most successful experimental films, this year, are Blush by Wim Vandekeybus (the infamous stage production appeared in 2004, at Montclair State University) and The Hunt a riveting close-up of a man's body experiencing the adrenaline rush of a life-or-death encounter...Dance film is definitely a growing phenomenon."
Robert Johnson, The Star Ledger, 2006

"The Dance on Camera Festival is one of those New York stealth events, prized by its devotees...where the allusiveness of dance meets the intimacy of film to create a new kind of magic"
John Rockwell, The New York Times, January, 1, 2006

"Where were you last Tuesday night at 6.15 pm? You should have been at the opening of the Dance on Camera festival at Lincoln Center to see a fascinating movie about the Silver Belles, five superb women who set the world on fire at the Cotton Club, in Harlem, tap dancing to Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington in the 1930s and still going strong...Don't miss the film about Frederick Ashton next week and dance movies from round the world..."
Francis Mason, The World of Dance (radio address, WQXR), January 7, 2006

"Harlem showgirls, Indian temple dancers, a Congo-born choreographer, striptease performers, Russian ballerinas and more take over the Dance Film Association's 34th annual Dance on Camera Festival. This showcase of more than 25 captivating films of and about dancers, with performances from all over the world, has everything but the 1970s TV show Solid Gold."
Kerry L. Smith, New York Resident, January 9, 2006

"Dance Films Association celebrates its 10 collaboration with the Film Society of Lincoln Center by exploding out of the Walter Reade"
Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice, January 4-10, 2006

"At this year's Dance on Camera Festival, you can see idiosyncratic collaborations between dancers and filmmakers, documentaries, historic footage, film translations of stage works--in short, everything the camera can do to and for dance...movement cut, spliced, dissolved, flattened, montaged, and projected larger than life"
Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice, January 11-17, 2006

"The 34th annual Dance on Camera Festival goes international in a big way."
Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine, New York Notebook, January 2006

"Don't Miss!" Dance on Camera Festival
Time Out New York, December 29, 2005-January 4, 2006

"January is official dance film month in New York. Dance on Camera, the premiere showcase for the genre at Lincoln Center is naturally the main event."
David Lipfert, Attitude, Spring 2004

"The Dance on Camera Festival always keeps one eye trained on the future. The latest experimental dance films are like messages carried by Pony Express from today's choreographic frontier."
Robert Johnson, Newark Star-Ledger, January 13, 20004