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"Dance film is a hybrid art form which, taking place at the intersection between two mediums, belongs purely to neither one. Out of keen interest in this form, 33 Fainting Spells started New Dance Cinema, a biennial festival of dance film, in 1999. With Northwest Film Forum, 33 Fainting Spells has co-produced three editions of New Dance Cinema, presenting the work of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and many others.

33 Fainting Spells began creating work in dance film in 2000, with the short 16mm film Measure. The company is at work on an ongoing series of shorts, beginning with Entry (2003)." (Dance film page)
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"The Festival was launched in 1998 to celebrate the Carol Straker Dance Company's 10th anniversary. A film "Constellation Change" was made that celebrated the dance company's work. The first film was made highlighting the stars and repertoire of the company. This was screened at Columbia Tri-Star, Sony Pictures Europe in Golden Square, London, and won Best Documentary at Du Pre Awards in France. Since then the festival has developed into a truly International festival, with over 800 film submissions since 2001, from forty-seven countries." (About us)
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"How appropriate that nationally acclaimed dance photographer Rose Eichenbaum should provide the inaugural exhibit for the Dance Art Museum of the Americas; her images have helped shape our view of dance through the press in publications such as Dance Magazine and the Los Angeles Times, and provides the artistic framework throughout our current website.

We are delighted to share Ms. Eichenbaum’s evocative work with you here in this, our inaugural online exhibition – the first of several planned exhibitions that will help us share the diverse face of worldwide dance with you, our audience. The works of Ms. Eichenbaum presented here are excerpts from her upcoming book entitled Movement Masters: Portraits of America’s Great Choreographers, which will be accompanied by a full exhibition at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum in the future." (Home page)
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"The earliest film directors recognized the immediacy and emotional power of dance.The two arts, dance and film, have enjoyed a passionate, sometimes stormy marriage ever since. Today the genre of dance film/video continues to evolve as dancers collaborate with writers and producers to create fabulous narrative and experimental shorts and features, documentaries, stage adaptations, andinstructional programs." (About DFA)
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See the Video Gallery of short films and video of this flamenco fusion dance artist.

Invites professionals, young dancers, multimedia artists to visit this developing web site. Contains information on the Forum, information on a first audition and calls for participation. English and French versions of the site.
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Site of the month 07/04
REVIEW: The Netribution Interview followed Hopps’ work on Love’s Labours Lost - the latest in a long-running series of collaborations between Hopps and Kenneth Branagh. Elio Espana’s questions raise material on working with Branagh, Hopps’ sense of his influence on a production, the effect of the camera. The interview also looks outside the immediate context, leading to comments on funding for the arts in the UK and routes into the business for newcomers. Hopps does seem to have found a focus in Love’s Labours Lost that other films perhaps did not achieve - largely because such a primacy is placed on the dance. While this is very much a magazine article, at times Hopps is rewardingly reflective. Netribution advertises itself as ‘the home of UK filmmaking’, although was temporarily ‘resting’ at the time of review due to a lack of funding.
Reviewed April 2002, by Stuart Andrews.

"The non-profit Northwest Film Forum [a 501(c)(3) organization] is Seattle's one and only cinematheque. With a brand new space at 1515 12th Ave, the NWFF houses two cinemas as well as production facilities and equipment for its filmmaking collective, WigglyWorld Studios. In our cinemas we are dedicated to showing the best in world cinema, including the latest work from the world's most revered filmmakers, classic films from the canon, and exciting new work from directors in Seattle and around the world. Our studio is gaining nationwide recognition as a useful resource for up and coming film artists, Seattle's most essential source for workshops, filmmaking grants and access to production and post-production equipment at prices that all aspiring filmmakers can afford. Additionally, we have just launched The Film Company, the nation's only non-profit production house ­ an old fashioned movie studio staffed by Seattle's finest film professionals, constantly working in collaboration to create new films." (About us)
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