Contact: For
Immediate Release
Deirdre Towers (212) 727-0764 September 3,
1998
DANCE ON CAMERA SHOWCASE
Wednesdays, October 7, November 11, December 9th, 7-9 PM
AT THE LANG RECITAL HALL, HUNTER COLLEGE
The Dance On Camera Showcase is an educational outgrowth of the Dance
On
Camera Festival the annual dance on camera festival established in 1971
by Dance Films Association. Sponsored by Hunter College dance
department
headed by Jana Feinman, the Showcase was conceived by Dance Films
Association executive director Deirdre Towers in collaboration with
Dennis Diamond, the video designer/founder of Video D. The three dates
of
the showcase will offer both new and historical films introduced by the
filmmakers whenever possible. The directors to be included are pioneers
Georges Melies, the French magician turned filmmaker, and Maya Deren,
the
American wizard, and contemporary artists Bridget Murnane, Michael
Downing, Alan Schacher, Michael Bowyer, Carol Kyles Finley, Jacgui
Kuraj, Jodi Kaplan, Tracie Mitchell, Daniele Wilmouth, Michael Cole, and
Tony Powell. On November 11th, a round table debate about the art of
dance video interspersed with video examples will be held among
experienced practitioners of dance videographers: Amy Reusch, Douglas
Rosenberg, Johannes Holub, Penny Ward, and Dennis Diamond who
collectively represent 100 years of dance video experience.
The Dance On Camera Showcase is open to Hunter College students, to the
public through the continuing education department, and Dance Films
Association members. The Showcase will be in the Lang Recital Hall
Hunter
College, North Building, 4th Floor. Enter on 69th St. between Lexington
and Park Avenues. To register, call: (212) 650-3850. Fee: $50 for the
course, $20 for one session. The course is free to Dance Films
Association members. Individual DFA membership fee: $25; organizations:
$50.
The contemporary titles of the Showcase came through the call for
entries
to the Dance On Camera Festival 1998 which is co-sponsored by the Film
Society of Lincoln Center and will be held December 12-13, 1998 at the
Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center. Dance Films Association, Inc.
is a membership, not for profit organization founded in 1956 by Susan
Braun as a service organization dedicated to the promotion and
preservation of dance films.
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