San Francisco Dance Film Festival presents an exclusive screening of Sony Pictures’ Center Stage! Following the screening, San Francisco Chronicle’s Tony Bravo will moderate a Q&A with Center Stage star Amanda Schull and the evening’s host, Lady Camden. Hear […]
“Closer Than Yesterday” follows two young San Francisco Ballet dancers behind the scenes as they compete on the world stage at the Helsinki International Ballet Competition. As they navigate setbacks […]
Intimate portraits, abstract bodyscapes, and surreal elements evoke poignant emotional states and carry urgent messages through the expressive power of the moving form. These ten short films traverse realms suspended […]
From moving odes to loneliness to a darkly comic romance, a touching story of family bonds, and an action-packed game of survival, these films span an dizzying range of expressive […]
In this immersive film experience of the stage adaptation of the hit BBC series, “Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby,” writer Steven Knight and choreographer and director Benoit Swan […]
Interpersonal tensions, intimate portraits, exclamatory bursts of energy, and transformative emotional journeys unfold up close through the uncontainable impulse to dance. Filmmakers and dancers channel the expressive range of a […]
Abstract journeys take shape on ice floes, a dry lake bed, towering forests, and lush fields of grass under expansive, ever-shifting skies. Dancers shapeshift through these vast landscapes to explore […]
Artists share the transformative power of dance and its capacity to shape notions of identity and community through a deeply-rooted sense of place. A group of dancers express their commitment […]
Dancers traverse space and time through moving portraits, intimate relationships, and collective dances of solidarity and celebration, revealing women’s stories in the fullness of their complexity. Social issues come to […]
Grounded in reality and departing into daydreams, “L(oo)ping” centers on a sweeping orchestral-electronic performance in Lyon’s grand concert hall led by French electronic music artist Rone. Dancers portray a playful […]
Be transported into a collective trance, fractured dreams, sweeping landscapes, a whirlwind romance, an introspective journey, and quirky takes on everyday settings illuminated through expressively human screenscapes. Experience deeply personal […]
“Pol Pot Dancing” frames the long reach and heavy weight of history through the multigenerational lineage of classical Cambodian dance. Chea Samy, a star dancer at the Cambodian royal court, […]
Go behind the scenes in “Kindred Spirits,” which follows members of the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company as they navigate the highs and lows of a cultural exchange tour to […]
“Obsessed with Light” is a meditation on groundbreaking artist Loïe Fuller’s fascination with light and her enduring drive to create. The film pulls back the curtain on Fuller, a wildly […]
In an intimate and wide-ranging portrait of maverick choreographer Jane Comfort, “Breaking Form” explores a creatively rich chapter in New York City’s downtown dance scene and its legacy today. Beginning […]
Experience provocative and moving stories told through movement, poetry, and music in nine short films from a range of artists who harness dance as a means of cultural expression, self-empowerment, […]
Drawn from a broad swath of the local dance community, these films put classical Indian dance, ballet, contemporary, Afro-Brazilian, and aerial dance into dialogue with modern issues and identities. With […]
