Deirdre Towers, Artistic Director of Dance Films Association and producer for the 36th annual Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center, presents an evening (November 7, 7:30 p.m.) and an afternoon (November 8, 3 p.m.) of New York premieres from the world of dance on camera, plus additional live performances and silent dance films accompanied by live music. Each program contains the same material.

Surface
Patrick Lovejoy, USA, 9 min, 2008
An abstract silent film choreographed by Patrick Lovejoy, a veteran performer with STOMP who recently worked as a choreographer for Cirque du Soleil in Europe, as accompanied with live music by Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Jay Rodriquez, the musical director/founding member of New York City's Groove Collective.

Insyn
Klara Elenius, Sweden, 15 min, 2007
As the artists write, this wry dance film is “inspired by the Scandinavian mentality.” The atmosphere is a bit tense among the three characters in the film, as we meet them in a dark and quiet house somewhere in suburbia, at a time when the boundary of dream meets reality.

Rain
Pontus Lidberg, Sweden, 27 min, 2007
Nominated for a Rose D'or 2008 and the winner of the Best Dance Short for the Tiburon Film Festival, this film features wonderful dancers in a series of rain-drenched encounters. Slowly, the movement washes over the characters, forming a pattern of which they are unaware—linking them all together.

Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
Gabrielle Lamb, Canada, 6:30 min, 2007
This whimsical short combines dance and animation to tell the story of one dancer's journey through time and space in search of her place in the universe. Through a series of short episodes, each set to a different cover version of the classic song “Quizas, Quizas, 
Quizas,” (“Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps”) she finds herself confronted by spinning buildings, an angry Ginger Rogers, and a set of aggressive picture frames—only to find that destiny appears where and when she least expects it.

Arising
Ben Dolphin, USA, 5 min, 2008
Facing the “truth” is how we evolve. A giant waterfall creates a challenge and serves as a metaphor for the truth. Arising offers an opportunity to move from the lower to the higher self by going through “it.” No one can do it alone and yet one person always is first. Nine dancers dance, dive, and fly through a waterfall, helping each other and transforming from un-individuated creatures to triumphant flying angels.

Still from Arising by Ben Dolphin