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distributors of dance films and videos. For rentals, try Netfliks
Bewildered as to which distributors handle what types of dance?
contact DFA
Dance For Kids Ages 8 + Up, Contemporary Dance & Improvisation Volume I and Contemporary Dance & Improvisation Volume II, featuring Desmond Richardson, Co-Director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, a former principal dancer of Alvin Ailey and the American Ballet Theatre. From LIVE at Broadway Dance Center, the Tezoro Productions video series, produced by Tony Nominee Michèle Assaf. www.liveatbroadwaydancecenter.com
The Art of Baroque Dance, "Folies d'Espagne" From Page to Stage
Produced by Dancetime Publications, 45m., 2006 By Les Cavatines; Written and directed by Natalie van Parys. A gem for the historical dance enthusiast and a valuable teaching tool, "The Art of Baroque Dance" takes the viewer from the Feuillet notation to performance. Included are an introduction to baroque dance, dance notation, basic step and arm movements, music, space, and interpretation. "Folies d'Espagne" is explored in depth.Carnival of Rhythm
Martha Graham: Dance on Film
Stanley Martin, 20m., B&W film features the late Katherine Dunham freshly back from Haiti in the 1940s. $30. See a clip. Contact DFA of your order. You can pay by credit card through Pay Pal by using our account, dancefilms@msn.com, or by sending a check made out to Dance Films Association, and mailing it to: DFA, 48 West 21st Street, #907, NY, NY 10010.
Nathan Kroll,1959, 93 minutes of classics by Martha Graham plus Interviews with the films' editors, Eleanor Hamerow and Miriam Arsham. New interviews with six dancers from the films: Mimi Cole, Mary Hinkson, Linda Hodes, Stuart Hodes, Yuriko Kikuchi, and Ethel Winter. Excerpts from a 1975 filmed technique demonstration by Graham's company, narrated by Graham plus Footage of Graham's company from a 1954 European tour
The Nutcracker Family: Behind the Magic
Across the country every fall, ballet companies rehearse the season’s favorite, “The Nutcracker.” Director Virginia Brooks and producer Delia Peters give us aninside look at the School of American Ballet’s children in the 2003 production of George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker”™ with rehearsals, archival footage, and interviews with former Maries. 95min, 2005. www.brooksdancefilms.comHaunting Douglas
An unforgettable documentary directed by Leanne Pooley on the New Zealand born choreographer Douglas Wright who danced with DV8 and in the US with Paul Taylor Dance Company. Shown in DFA's Dance on Camera Festival 2004 and on tour. From spacific.co.nzTrisha Brown: Early Works 1966-1979
The first disc of this two-DVD set documents 18 of Brown's major pieces; Brown discusses her dance training, life in New York City, and experience with the Judson Dance Theater and other early postmodern choreographers, such as Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, and Simone Forti in the second disc. $20 from ArtPix.
Unseen Cinema: Early Avant-Garde Film, 1894-1941
A 7-DVD box set by Image Entertainment Anthology Film Archives and Film Preservation Associates, contains 155 films by more than 100 filmmakers. DOf particular interest is Disc 7: Viva la Danse, showcasing 33 dance films. The New York Times calls this collection "one of the major monuments of the DVD medium,” From Unseen Cinema.Bill Viola: The Eye Of The Heart
A fascinating portrait of this pioneering American video artist. A film by Mark Kidel, a BBC production i with ARTE France, 59min., 1996 Made with Calliope Media From Facets MultimediaBy Brakhage: An Anthology
“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective…an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic…an eye which does not respond to the name of everything, but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception.” Stan Brakhage From Criterion CollectionThe Director's Label Series Box Set: I and II
Box I features the work of directors Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, and Chris Cunningham, with commentary and interviews. Box II includes the work of Anton Corbijn, Jonathan Glazer, Mark Romanek, and Stephane Sednaoui. From Palm Pictures.The Films of Hilary Harris, Four Visionary Short Films
Organism [1975]; Nine Variations [1966]; Highway [1958]; Longhorn [1951]
From Mystic Fire VideoDistributors of dance films and videos:
American Dance Therapy Association
ARTPIX Notebooks
Arthausmusik
Art Works Video
Bayviewentertainment
Bob Rizzo
Bullfrog Films
C major-entertainment.com
Canyon Cinema
Carousel Films
CICV Pierre Schaeffer
Cathy Roe Productions
The Cinema Guild
Cine Classics
Compagnie des Indes
Creative Arts Television
Criterion
Dance Film Archive
Dance Horizons Video
Digital Classics
Direct Cinema, Ltd.
Documentary Educational Resources
Electronic Arts Intermix
Eye On Dance
Euro Arts
Facets Video
Filmakers Library
Film-Makers' Cooperative
Filmoption International
Films for the Humanities
Films Inc.
First Run/Icarus
Hip Hop Game
Home Vision
Insight Media
The Kitchen
Kultur
Library.unlv.edu
Live at Broadway Dance Center
Mystic Fire Video, Inc.
Michael Blackwood Productions
Mk2
National Film Board of Canada
New Yorker Films
NU2
Opus Arte
Paul Taylor Company
Rhombus Media
Searchlight Films
The Tango Catalogue
TDK Music
Total Film
Unseen Cinema
University of CA, Berkeley
Video Artists International
Video D
Videographe
World Music Store
Zeitgeist Film
Zipporah Films
For rentals, try one of these independent video stores:
Massachusetts - Video Underground
New York - Videology
North Carolina - Orbit DVD -
Pennsylvania - TLA Video
Washington - Scarecrow Video
Canada: Toronto - The Film Buff