Dancing Through the Lens

This week, we welcome Dancing Through the Lens co-host Chris Ouellette. Chris' unique path in dance includes training at San Francisco Ballet, performing internationally with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, and acting as a company manager for AXIS Dance Company. This conversation touches on Chris’ first encounter with dance film, his work with accessibility in dance spaces and how some of our audience may already have a picture with him
Subscribe to SFDFFs new dance film series Encore Shorts at this link:
https://sfdancefilmfest.org/2021-encore-shorts/
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This episode was recorded on the ancestral lands of the Yelamu, part of the unceded territory of the Ramaytush Ohlone people. Learn more at https://native-land.ca/

This week, Chris interviewed the team of SFDFF Co-Produced film I Just Wanna Dance, which has been dancing along the festival circuit this year. The crew of Amanda Beane (director), Kristina Willemse (camera/jib operator) and Zoë Mountain (editor) reflected on how their dance backgrounds translated to the film and how it allowed for a greater creative and collaborative trust amongst the team.
I Just Wanna Dance will screen as a part of the Homegrown: Perfect Day program as a part of Frameline at 8:30PM on June 21 at the New Parkway Theater in Downtown Oakland.
https://www.frameline.org/films/frameline46/homegrown-perfect-day
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This episode was recorded on the ancestral lands of the Lisjan Ohlone people. Learn more at https://native-land.ca/

La Mezcla is a polyrhythmic San Francisco based dance and music ensemble rooted in Chicana, Latina and Indigenous traditions and social justice. Its founder, Vanessa Sanchez, spoke with us about the process of developing the company's latest work Ghostly Labor, a film and soon-to-be dance theatre piece that explores the history of labor in the US Mexico Borderlands. We spoke about the extensive research and development of the work, rhythmic crafting and hybridization and capturing clean sound when you're surrounded by traffic and farm equipment.
Ghostly Labor will screen as a part of SFDFF's Raising Voices on Thursday, November 3rd at 7PM at the Roxie Theater. More information can be found at this link:
https://sfdancefilmfest.org/fall-festival-2022/shorts-program/raising-voices-3/
https://vanessasanchez.net/lamezcla/
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This episode was recorded on the ancestral lands of the Yelamu, part of the unceded territory of the Ramaytush Ohlone people. Learn more at https://native-land.ca/

2020 was a special year for Amy Seiwert’s Imagery as it marked the 10th anniversary of the Company’s SKETCH series. The company had planned planned SKETCH 10 : WRECKED, which would have brought in six choreographers, including Seiwert and choreographic fellow Ben Needham-Wood, to work in pairs to “wreck” or edit each others work. In response to the changing art landscape due to COVID-19, we instead produced four documentary dance films, entitled SKETCH FILMS: Red Thread. Two of these films will be screening as a part of the twelfth annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
Coral spoke with Amy and Ben about the process of producing films that were created around the country as well as the weighty topics the films address.
https://www.asimagery.org/sketchfilms
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Finding Me: Dance Heals (featuring "What the Body Holds")
October 17th, 7:30 PM
Catharine Clark Gallery
https://sfdancefilmfest.org/festival-films-2021/shorts-program/screendance/contemporary/dance-heals-at-catharine-clark-gallery/
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Dancing Through the Lens is back and we are kicking off by speaking with Irish Dancer and Tiktok star, Morgan Bullock. The 2021 documentary Steps of Freedom (dir. Ruan Magan) memorably features Bullock dancing at an intersection in New York, a visual metaphor for the many crossing paths found in the history and trajectory of the development of Irish Dance. Co-host Chris Ouellette and Morgan spoke not only about her role in the documentary, but also touched on topics related to technique, her journey to Riverdance and Megan Thee Stallion.
"Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance" screens as a part of Stage to Screen, SFDFF's Spring Festival, at the Delancey Theater on Friday, May 13. More information and tickets can be found here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/steps-of...
Watch the Q&A on Youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM8qJzGYMfI&t=4s&ab_channel=SanFranciscoDanceFilmFestival
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This episode was recorded on the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people in what is now known as Berkeley, CA. Morgan is speaking from the ancestral lands of the Seneca Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in what is now known as Rochester, NY.