2013 ISF Dates
Saturday, July 13 & Sunday, July 14
White Lecture Hall and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Times TBD
Now in its 18th year, International Screendance Festival is directed and curated by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Douglas Rosenberg, and explores the ever-evolving relationship between cinema and dance. Audiences have the opportunity to see numerous films over a two day period that have been specially chosen to represent the best of this film genre. Please check back for the full screening schedule.
“ADF’s International Screendance Festival has played a key role in legitimizing dance for the camera. By including screendance alongside live dance as a vital part of its summer programming, ADF has opened the door for dance’s newest collaborator, the camera, and all the possibilities that flow from the creativity of choreographers and filmmakers exploring their visions for the screen.” -Douglas Rosenberg, ISF Director
Thoughts from past participants
“Curated by filmmaker and scholar Douglas Rosenberg, The Screendance Festival at ADF is unlike other dance for camera festivals. Rosenberg values rich dialogue around the works he screens, and it is common for makers and thinkers of various stripes to gather at this festival for a fruitful exchange of ideas. It was because of these exchanges that I became convinced I could fashion a career for myself as a screendance scholar, and the people I’ve met at this festival over the years have helped me shape a research profile that now includes not only dance films, but also dance on the Web, in social media, and on mobile devices.”
– Harmony Bench
“My experience at ADF with the Screendance Festival not only gave me tools to pursue my career as a video-dance maker, but also inspired me to start a festival in my city of Buenos Aires. This action, in time (more than 15 years), initiated a Screendance wave that has spread all over Latin America. It was truly an unforgettable summer.”– Silvina Szperling, Director of the Festival Internacional VideoDanzaBA
“Curator Douglas Rosenberg programs work that rigorously explores the choreo-cinematic use of space, time, and motion, thus shifting your expectations of dance as an art form. The work literally jumps off the screen, lands in your imagination, and leaves you buzzing.”
– Charlotte Griffin