A network of dance film festivals around the world
Argentina – FESTIVAL INT’L DE VIDEO-DANZA
Buenos Aires (November 14-22, 2009) Silvina Szperling, director
Deadline: July 31
www.VideoDanzaBA.com.ar
Australia – REEL DANCE (2010)
Tracie Mitchell, director, (2010) admin@reeldance.org.au,
www.reeldance.org.au/
Austria – DANCE SCREEN (The Hague, Nov, 2007)
Franz Patay, President, International Musik Zentrum; Vienna
www.imz.at
Belgium – ARGOS FESTIVAL
www.argosarts.org/
Belgium– DANSCAMDANSE
www.danscamdanse.be
Brazil– DANCA EM FOCO
Deadline: 31 March 2009 (August, 2009)
Paulo Caldas, director, Rio de Janeiro
www.dancaemfoco.com.br
Brazil – II FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE VIDEODANÇA DO RECIFE December 5-7, 2008
Recife-pe-off-tap-videodanca/
Canada– MADance (Movement & Dance)
Allen & Karen Kaeja, directors, Toronto
www. kaeja.org
Canada- INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON ART (FIFA)
Montreal, March 19-29, 2009
www.artfifa.com
Canada -REELDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Victoria BC, Canada July 25, 26 and August 2, 2008
www.media-net.bc.ca/
www.reeldancefilmfest.com
Chile- FESTIVAL DE VIDEO DANZA (October 1-5, 2007)
Santiago, Chile: Escuela de Danza Universidad ARCIS
danza@uarcis.cl; www.uarcis.cl
Chile – METROPOLIS VIDEO DANZA
contacto@metropolisvideodanza.cl
www.metropolisvideodanza.cl
Colombia – FESTIVAL VIDEO MOVIMIENTO 2008
Bogota; Director: Dixon Quitian
www.imagenenmovimiento.org
England – CONSTELLATION CHANGE FESTIVAL (June, 2009)
Carol Straker, director, London
www.constellation-change.co.uk
England – DANCE FOR CAMERA FESTIVAL
(December 5-7, 2008) South East Dance, Brighton
www.southeastdance.org.uk
England – LONDON DANCE FILM FESTIVAL
sandy@londondancefilmfest.com, London
www.londondancefilmfest.com
England – MOVES (April 23-28, 2009)
Pascale Moyse, director; Manchester and the North West
www.movementonscreen.org.uk
www.myspace.com/movementonscreen
Finland-ROTATION DANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Virve Sutinen, director, Helsinki
www.kiasma.fi
Finland – LOIKKA Dance Film Festival
Aino Halonen, April 23-24, 2009 Helsinki
www.loikka.fi
France– VIDEODANSE (October 21 – Nov 23, 2009)
Centre Pompidou, Michele Bargues, Curator, Paris
cnac-gp.fr/Pompidou
Germany – CHOREOGRAPHIC CAPTURES
Deadline: April 30, 2009; JOINT ADVENTURES
Emil-Geis-Str. 21,81379 München mail@jointadventures.net
www.choreographiccaptures.org
Germany– SK STIFTUNG KULTURE: VIDEOTANZ
Birgit Hauska, Rita Kramp, directors, Cologne (no longer active)
www.sk-kultur.de/videotanz
Greece – MIR FESTIVAL (September 12-20, 2008)
Athens Christiana Galanopoulou, director mir@mirfestival.gr
www.mirfestival.gr,
Hong Kong – JUMPING FRAMES 2009
First festival in 2004. March 29 to April 4 2009 Festival in Beijing
www.jumpingframes.hk
Hungary– EDIT2009 October 10-13
In collaboration with Budapest Annual Festival
Director: Gergely Tallo, Curator: Gabor Pinter, Budapest
www.wsf.hu/edit
India– DANCE WITH THE CAMERA/
MUMBAI INT’L FILM FESTIVAL
Ileana Citaristi, curator,
www.artvisionindia.com/profile.html
Indonesia – DANCE(E)MOTION: DANCE ON SCREEN FESTIVAL
(March 10-13, 2005) Chendra Effendy, curator, Jakarta
Israel – V-DANCE (May 2008)
Tel Aviv, Avi Feldman, director and co-curator,
www.vdance.co.il
Italy– WALLPAPER DANCE (June 15-28, 2009)
Deadline: April 29 (under 10 min.) Forms: /portaledanza.net
Trieste contact: coreofficina@gmail.com
Italy – IL COREOGRAFO ELETTRONICO (June 3-4, 2009)
Marilene Riccio, director, Napoli
www.napolidanza.com
Italy– TTV, PERFORMING ARTS ON SCREEN
(May 3-14, June 15, 2006) Fabio Bruschi, director, Riccione,
www.riccioneteatro.it
Japan– DANCE AND MEDIA JAPAN 2009 (February 7-8, 2009)
Asahi Art Square, Tokyo arts-npo.org/aas/index.htm
Naota Lina, director, Tokyo
videodance@dance-media.com
http://www.dance-media.com/videodance
Japan – DOTMOVE 2008
Online festival handled by Shift Magazine
www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2008/09/dotmov_festival_2008.html
Mexico– FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE DANZA Y MEDIOS ELECTRONICOS
2009, Mariana Arteaga Vazquez, Hayde Lachino, directors contacto@fedame.org.mx
www.fedame.org.mx
Mexico – FOTOGRAFEST 2008
Laura Rios, curator, Cuernavaca; see program
http://www.fotografest.net/
Monaco – MONACO DANCE FORUM
Philippe Baudelot, December 2009
www.monacodanceforum.com
Netherlands – CINEDANS AMSTERDAM (July 1-11, 2009)
Janine Dykmeyer, Amsterdam
www.cinedans.nl
Norway – ULTIMA FILM – DANS FOR KAMERA
Magne Antonsen, Oslo, (Plans for 2009 to come)
www.dansforkamera.no
Portugal – FRAME – International Dance-Vídeo Festival
Curator: Alberto Magno, Oporto, May 1-23, 2009
www.fabricademovimentos.pt
Portugal – INTERNATIONAL DANCE VIDEO SHOW
São Luiz Theatre in Lisbon, November 25-26, 2008
Curator: Pedro Sena Nunes. info@voarte.com
Poland – KINO TANCA
Sonia Niespialowska – Owczarek, director, Warsaw
www.kinotanca.pl
Russia – KINODANCE FESTIVAL
ST. PETERSBURG, MOSCOW (April 7-17, 2009)
Alla Kovgan, curator & Vadim Kasparov, director
www.kinodance.com/russia
Scotland – DANCE:FILM 09
May21-30
Dance Base | Scotland’s National Centre for Dance
steph@dancefilmscotland.com www.dancefilmscotland.com
South Africa -MONTAGE – video dance festival March 3-4, 2008
Jeannette Ginslov, Gerard Bester, Directors, Walking Gusto Prod.; Johannesburg in partnership with FNB Dance Umbrella 2008
www.wgp.co.za
Spain – VIDEO DANSA (January 8-11, 2009)
Nuria Font, director, Barcelona, supported bythe Generalitat de Catalunya’s Departament of Cultura
http://www.nu2s.org
Sweden – SHOOT DANCE FOR SCREEN (Oct/Nov 2008)
Christina Molander & Sofi Lagergren, Stockholm
Festival in four cities: Stockholm-Luleå-Göteborg-Malmö.
www.modernadansteatern.se
Switzerland – SCREEN DANCE – Basel (shorts)
Manuel Scheiwiller, Director; Deadline: June 17, 2008
www.screendance.ch
Turkey – DANCE CAMERA ISTANBUL
(October 15-November 15, 2009)
Deadline: July 15, 2009; Onur Topal Sumer, director, onurtopalsumer@yahoo.com
www.dancecamera-istanbul.org
USA – THE BODYCARTOGRAPHY PROJECT
Deadline: April 1, 2009
Looking for film/video focused on ecology and/or the arts
contact: olive@bodycartography.org, www.bodycartography.org/
USA – DANCE CAMERA WEST – (June, 2009)
Lynette Kessler, director, Los Angeles, CA
www.dancecamerawest.org
USA – DANCE ON CAMERA FESTIVAL 2010
Now on tour – see touring schedule and programs
Deirdre Towers, director, info@dancefilms.org
www.dancefilms.org
USA– DANCE/SCREEN – Innovative International Dance Films
Charlotte Shoemaker, curator, e-mail: charshoes@sbcglobal.net
USA – DANCE FOR THE CAMERA, AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL
June 26-28, 2009; Entries deadline: April 24, 2009
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Douglas Rosenberg, dir. www.americandancefestival.org
USA – EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer) DANCE MOVIES Commission, Hélène Lesterlin, Curator
www.empac.rpi.edu
USA – FRAME WORKS DANCE
on-going series, Michael Bodel, michael@here.org
www.frameworksdance.org/
USA/Mexico – SAN DIEGO TIJUANA DANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Feb 27-March 1, 2009, Curatora Kara Miller, Larry Asakawa, Minerva Tapia; San Diego, CA (DFA touring partner – see program)
dancefilmfestival.com
USA– SANS SOUCI DANCE FESTIVAL (March 20-21, 2009)
Boulder, CO. Co-director: Ana Baer
sanssoucifest.org
USA– UCI DANCE FILM FESTIVAL
John Crawford, director, University of California at Irvine
(March 12-14, 2009)
dancefilm.arts.uci.edu
USA– UNIVERSITY INT’L DANCE FOR THE CAMERA FESTIVAL
Ellen Bromberg, Salt Lake City, September 10-12, 2009
Workshop with Laura Taler
http://www.dance.utah.edu/
Uruguay – FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE VIDEODANZA
Tamara Cubas, director, Montevideo
www.perrorabioso.com