Currently On Sale On Sale: 2011 Archive On Sale: 2010 Archive On Sale: 2009 Archive Back By Popular Demand Charlie Chaplin Spanish Cinema Now FCS/YFF: Repo Man Chekhov Italian Neo-Realism SE: MJ's Video Art GS: The Hoodlum Youssef Chahine SE: Best Boy FCS: The Box SE: Gabriel Over... Grn. Scrns.: Fresh Czech Cinema GS: The Unholy Three The Wall Scary Movies 3 Latinbeat 09 Watershed First Run Features Gr. Scr.: No Impact Man SE: Keep Moving: MJ FCS: Last Days of Disco Natalie Wood SE: Amreeka I’m Gonna Explode IN: What’s the Matter... Films of Ang Lee YFF: ...Get Loud Toni Servillo Shakespeare FCS: Thirst GS: Man With Camera Gr. Scr.: Pig Business Grotowski Tarkovsky Movie Musicals SE: Phèdre SE: Monterey Pop The Secret Policeman IN: New Muslim Cool SE: Dick Rogers HRW Anniversary HRW 2009 New Italian Cinema SE: Woodstock Dardenne Bros. FCS: Friends of Eddie... Steve McQueen YFF: Bullitt SE: Three Daughters Being Jewish in France Forbidden Catalan Cinema SE: Wham Bam... Jancsó Classics Gr. Scr.: Bike Month FCS: 1991... Red Diva YFF/FCS: Jarmush YFF: Days and Nights... IN: Youth Knows No Pain China Indie Cinema MET Live: The Audition GS: The Unholy Threepostponed Satyajit Ray AFF 09 AFF Special Event Gr. Scr.: Addicted ...! FCS: Friends of Eddie... ND/NF Critic’s Choice Robert Mulligan Rendez-Vous YFF: A Week Alone SE: NYWIFT Film Comment Selects GS: Stella Dallas MET Live: di Lammermoor Oscar Micheaux YFF: Days of Being Wild SE: Alvin Ailey Day Positif Celebrates... Cinematic Opera CO: Moses and Aaron SE: Lemon Tree MET Live: Orfeo SE: Remembering Richard NY Jewish Film Festival MET Live: La Rondine DOC 2009 Program Overview Ballet Then... EMPAC Dance Movies Jirí Kylián On Screen Flamenco and Shorts Magnetic Cinema x 3 Dance of the Enchantress On the Short Side VSPRS Show and Tell Busby Berkeley Blithe Spirits The Gang’s All Here Memories The Blue Bird The Chosen One Something to Dance SE: Red Gold SE: Playtime SE: Fincher in Person Fincher On Sale: 2008 Archive On Sale: 2007 Archive On Sale: 2006 Archive On Sale: 2005 Archive Archive 2005 - To April Archive 2004 - WRT Archive 2003 - WRT Archive 2002 - WRT Archive 2001 - WRT Archive 2000 - WRT Archive 1999 - WRT Archive 1998 - WRT Archive 1997 - WRT Archive 1996 - WRT

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Dance Films Association present Dance on Camera Festival 2009 January 7-11 & 16-17 The longest-running annual film festival showcasing the influential and formative role dance plays in cinema, Dance on Camera 2009 brings a diverse range of art forms—dance, film, animation and the newest technology—vividly to life on screen. This year’s selections range from specially commissioned shorts to a new dance film from India; from Russian ballerinas to Busby Berkeley; and from documentaries on dance virtuosos Antonio Gades and Jerome Robbins to a rare screening of a 1918 silent film classic. Special guests include Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and Long Island University dean Rhoda Grauer; Village Voice senior film critic J. Hoberman; Newark Star-Ledger dance critic Robert Johnson; Emmy Award-winning producer of “Dance in America” Judy Kinberg; EMPAC curator Hélène Lesterlin; choreographer, writer and renowned exponent of two forms of Indian temple dance Rajika Puri and Lawrence Rhodes, director of the Dance Division at The Juilliard School. Many of the filmmakers and choreographers will be in attendance including Daniel Belton, Juan Cano Arecha, Louis-Martin Charest, Elena Demyanenko, David Fernandez, Sophie Fiennes, Karn Junkinsmith, Allan Kaeja, Alla Kovgan, Marie-Christine Letourmex, Karsten Liske, Marie Losier, Patrick Lovejoy, Agnes Luse, Dahci Ma, Richard Move, Bertrand Normand, Douglas Rosenberg, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Sebastien Tetreault. On Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 6:15 p.m. acclaimed French documentarian Bertrand Normand will introduce and answer questions following the festival’s first program, Ballet Then and Now. Normand’s Ballerina is an insightful new investigation of the St. Petersburg ballerina as incarnated by five of the Kirov’s prominent or rising stars: Alina Somova, Svetlana Zakharova, Diana Vishneva, Ulyana Lopatkina and Evgenia Obraztsova. It screens alongside Gillian Lacy’s Play: On the Beach with the Ballets Russes, presenting newly found and edited footage of famous Ballet Russes dancers on the beach in Sydney, Australia, during their 1936-1940 tours. Also on Wednesday, Jan 7, at 9:00 p.m., EMPAC Dance Movies looks at the future of dance and new media technologies through four groundbreaking shorts specially commissioned for the Experimental Media Performing Arts Center. EMPAC curator Hélène Lesterlin will introduce the program. Choreographer Nora Chipaumire, filmmaker Alla Kovgan, and producer Joan Frosch will introduce their video, Nora, a biographical dance drama about a Zimbabwean girl’s struggle for love and independence. Era-spanning feature films highlighted in the series include a rare retrospective look at Maurice Tourneur’s 1918 fantasy masterpiece The Blue Bird, featuring a live piano performance by silent film accompanist Ben Model. On the opposite extreme, innovative Belgian choreographer Alain Platel and filmmaker Sophie Fiennes team up for VSPRS Show and Tell, a look at Platel’s controversial interpretation of the hymn Maria Vespers. Fiennes will introduce and answer questions following the screening. Rajika Puri, choreographer, writer and renowned exponent of two forms of Indian temple dance, will also be on hand to introduce about the first screening of Dance of the Enchantress, veteran filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s compelling exploration of the Mohiniyattam dance form. Aribam Syam Sharma’s celebrated 1991 Cannes Film Festival selection The Chosen One, charting the strange rituals of a Meitei matriarchal cult as they affect a happily married woman, will be presented in the United States for the first time in nearly a decade. Rhoda Grauer, Emmy-winning producer, writer and filmmaker, and dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Long Island University, will introduce the film on Saturday, Jan. 17. Three shorts programs ~ Magnetic Cinema x 3, On the Short Side and Memories ~ also offer an exclusive glimpse at the global reach of new choreographic visions. On Friday, Jan 16 at 6:15pm the festival offers a sneak peek at the new “American Masters” documentary on prodigious choreographer Jerome Robbins. Directed and produced by six-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Judy Kinberg and written by best-selling Jerome Robbins biographer Amanda Vaill, Something to Dance About cuts never-before-seen rehearsal footage next to interviews with many of Robbins’s esteemed colleagues, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Chita Rivera and Stephen Sondheim, to offer an incisive examination of Robbins’s creative process. A panel discussion with Kinberg, Vaill, dancer and choreographer Donald Saddler, and other guests will follow the screening. Other dance and dance film virtuosos whose work is on display in the series include Czech choreographer Jirí Kylián and flamenco master Antonio Gades, whose backstage preparations are brought into fresh new light in Juan Cano Arecha’s documentary Antonio Gades: The Ethics of Dancing. The "Jirí Kylián On Screen" at 3:30pm on Saturday, Jan. 17 includes a pre-screening panel discussion on Kylián style moderated by Newark Star-Ledger dance critic Robert Johnson and featuring Lawrence Rhodes, director of the Dance Division at The Juilliard School, as well as American Ballet Theater Principal Dancer Gillian Murphy. Busby Berkeley’s trailblazing brand of Hollywood musical spectacle is spotlighted in two programs: Blithe Spirits: Rudavsky Meets Busby Berkeley which includes a screening of Dames introduced by Village Voice senior film critic J. Hoberman and a screening in a new 35mm studio print of The Gang’s All Here, starring Benny Goodman, Alive Faye, Charlotte Greenwood, and the iconic Carmen Miranda as the Girl in the Tutti-Frutti Hat. The 2009 edition of the Dance on Camera Festival marks the 13th year of collaboration between The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Dance Films Association and the festival’s 37th year as an internationally touring event. It is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Capezio Ballet-Makers Foundation, French Consulate, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Experimental Television Center.

For a listing of the films in Dance On Camera go to Program Overview. Click on Calendar to view the schedule and to purchase tickets online. Series Pass ($40 public/$30 Film Society member) admits one person to five titles in Dance On Camera. Available only at the Walter Reade Theater box office (cash only transactions); may not be combined with any other ticket offer. Individual screening tickets subject to availability.