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Capitol Dance & Cinema Festival, Washington D.C., DC (2026)

10/23/2024

🎙️ SEASON 5 | Episode 10

Well, aside from our wrap up, it’s our final episode of Season 5. Today we’re having a bit of a full circle moment and revisiting a project we covered in our very first season.

Listeners of Frameform may remember our interview with some of the team behind Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance. This doc has had a long and successful festival run, earned countless awards, been available on HBO (now Max) and has now evolved to internationally touring events called “The Uprooted Experience”.

For the live event component of Capitol Dance & Cinema Festival this season, Dancinema hosted an Uprooted Experience in the DC Metro area. We had an encore screening of the film and three awesome dance classes you’ll hear snippets from. Our classes and faculty were: African Dance with Robin Gee, African American Social Dance with Cat Foster, and Tap with Germaine Goodson. The day concluded with a panel discussion and Q&A with the faculty and Lisa Donmall-Reeve, film producer and project education director.

This episode is a mini, virtual way to have your own Uprooted Experience. Check out the show notes to follow along and see links to the recommendations from the faculty.

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10/09/2024

🎙️ SEASON 5 | Episode 9 While the concepts of mass appeal and state of the art don’t always dance well together, today’s guest has proven that you can accomplish both.

If you’re a dancefilm enthusiast you’ve very likely to have seen Andrew Margetson’s films, which are quickly identified by their high caliber dance and flawless cinematography. If you’re a curator, you have likely included a few of them in your programming over the past decade.

Andrew’s short dancefilm oeuvre includes the following we cover in this episode: Stavropol, Lil Buck with Icons of Modern Art, Duet, Reborn and Step By Step with Lauren Cuthbertson.

In addition to being popular on the festival circuit and persistent audience favorite, he also has a successful career making commercials, many of which feature dance and movement.

Today we cover all of this, plus an exciting change of direction for his next project. Andrew is usually the one behind the scenes sharing others stories. Today, we’re turning the focus to hear his perspective.

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10/09/2024

🎙️ SEASON 5 / EPISODE 8 | WE’RE BACK WITH MORE EPISODES! This week’s episode of Frameform features three extraordinarily experienced artists-Kati Kallio, Maia Sorensen and Helena Jonsdottir- who wear many hats in the screendance field as filmmakers, curators, educators and more.

💡 Clare spoke with them about their work in screendance creation, curation and education and how it is informing the establishment of a nascent Nordic Screendance Network.

🌐 The conversation broaches the necessity of regular in-person meetings for practitioners as well as how the strength of a network can aid in the advocation of a more sustainable screendance field for those working in it.

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09/14/2024

🎙 SEASON 5 / EPISODE 7 | Maggie Bailey’s MOVING TOGETHER

WE’RE BACK WITH MORE EPISODES! Thanks for your patience as we were away for summer recess. We’re so excited for what’s to come for the rest of the year in terms of episode releases and bonus content.

🎶💃🏿 For today’s episode, Hannah sits down with Austin, Texas filmmaker Maggie Bailey, discussing her 2022 dance documentary, Moving Together. The, pardon us, DANCE between screendance and documentary on screen is not something we commonly see done so masterfully. In this interview by Hannah, we learn about Maggie’s technical process for making Moving Together and dive into some of the elements that make this movie extra special.

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05/23/2024

🎙 SEASON 5 / EPISODE 6 / As Frameform goes into the summer break, we are offering creative prompts designed to help you practice creating dance films on a regular basis. These are not recipes for masterpieces, rather ideas to help you break out of familiar patterns and discover new and interesting ideas for future work.

📝 Check out the show notes to become a Patreon Supporter and enjoy our exclusive resources including a transcript of today’s episode and new releases coming up this summer.

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05/09/2024

🎙 SEASON 5 | Episode 5 We love connecting with the people behind the scenes at festivals. In today’s episode, we speak with Nicole Spring of the Los Angeles Dance Film Festival.

☀️ We talk all about how she started the LA Dance Shorts Film Festival - now known as Los Angeles Dance Film Festival - and how this project has evolved over the years. Nicole cares deeply about serving the community through these events and has proved to be open to adapting to best do that. We’re excited to share more about how LADFF has grown with her leadership and what is coming up next for this festival. We also discuss challenges and decision making from the perspective of curators and producers, and offer some tips for filmmakers.

📝 Check out the show notes to become a Patreon Supporter and enjoy our exclusive resources released last summer and coming up this year.

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04/27/2024

🎙 SEASON 5 / Episode 4 | We’re back with a classic LOCATION SCOUT series round table discussion covering the not-so ordinary space: the black box theater.

Most theater-goers are familiar with black boxes. For those unfamiliar, we’re not talking about literal boxes that are black or the amazing 90’s dance music group but, in a way, the former is not totally off the mark. These spaces may not have that grand sparkling feeling when you walk into a 200+ capacity, red curtain adorned proscenium, but it serves very much the same purpose: possibility in creativity.

Featured in this episode:
🌟 STILL DANCING (Spain) Anton Valdbauer
🌟 Snap Into It (USA) Jillian Meyers & Devin Jamieson
🌟 Outopia (Slovenia/UK) Helen Rollins

Also discussed:
✨ SNL Woodbridge High School sketches
✨ A Flower (USA) Skyla Schreter
✨ Three on Four (Germany) Marty Buhler
✨ Standing Between Two Walls (Russia) Manizha & Dasha Gushchina

📝 Check out the show notes to become a Patreon Supporter and enjoy our exclusive resources released last summer and coming up this year.

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04/26/2024

✨ In celebration of Dancinema’s 10th anniversary, we’re revisiting the archives by sharing awards & acknowledgements for some of the most memorable dancefilms, as voted by our programming panel. We highlighted 360 screendances, dancefilms, documentaries, & music videos in our Anthology - available for Dancinema site members & Frameform Podcast Patreon supporters. Today’s highlight is…

🌟 SEAWEED SISTERS 🌟 Lifetime Contribution to the Field Award

🏅Congratulations to The Seaweed Sisters (Megan Lawson, Jillian Meyers & Dana Wilson) on their contributions to all things at the intersection of dance & film. Our panel decided it was best to acknowledge this team & their body of work rather than try to pick just one project. We have screened “Water Fountain”, “Colorwise” & “Rather Important” at Dancinema’s events over the years, plus Jillian’s solo project “Snap Into It”. We also presented “Colorwise” in collaboration with Standard Vision for a Summer Showcase. These dancefilms are always audience favourites and have remained entertaining & fresh even years after their release. They are true classics in the “Dancinema Canon” & The Seaweed Sisters are living legends in this creative space. They continue to be amazing creative forces individually and collaboratively. We look forward to seeing all of their future projects!

Listen to Frameform Podcast Season 1 Ep 1 to hear more about “Colorwise”, Season 3 Ep 2 to hear about “Rather Important” & our most recent release Season 5 Ep 4 to hear about “Snap Into It”. While you’re searching up podcasts, we also recommend you check out “Words That Move Me” with Dana Wilson.

🇺🇸 Los Angeles, CA, USA

🎙️ Want to have your project included in future Dancinema programming? Submissions are open on FilmFreeway. Visit Dancinema.co/submit for more info.

💖 Programming Panel: Clare Schweitzer, Danielle Jeal, Hannah Weber, Lolly Ashly, Mark Orsborn, Steven Butler, & Jen Ray.

FrameForm CASCADIA Dance & Cinema Festival

04/25/2024

✨ In celebration of Dancinema’s 10th anniversary, we’re revisiting the archives by sharing awards & acknowledgements for some of the most memorable dancefilms, as voted by our programming panel. We highlighted 360 screendances, dancefilms, documentaries, and music videos in our Anthology - available for Dancinema site members and Frameform Podcast Patreon supporters. Today’s highlight is…

🌟 ANDY MARGETSON 🌟 for Achievement in Creative Biographies

🏅Congratulations to Andrew Margetson on his achievement in the screendance space, but specifically in Creative Biographies. Over the years, we have screened “Lil Buck with Icons of Modern Arts”, “Reborn” and “Step By Step”. These films each have a beautiful balance of elegant polish and relatable realism that we’ve come to know as Andrew’s signature style. All have been loved by audiences and we are not surprised to have seen them selected for film festivals of all kinds around the world.
🇬🇧 London, England

🎙️ Want to have your project included in future Dancinema programming? Submissions are open on FilmFreeway. Visit Dancinema.co/submit for more info.

💖 Programming Panel: Clare Schweitzer, Danielle Jeal, Hannah Weber, Lolly Ashly, Mark Orsborn, Steven Butler, & Jen Ray.

CASCADIA Dance & Cinema Festival FrameForm

04/24/2024

✨ In celebration of Dancinema’s 10th anniversary, we’re revisiting the archives by sharing awards & acknowledgements for some of the most memorable dancefilms, as voted by our programming panel. We highlighted 360 screendances, dancefilms, documentaries, and music videos in our Anthology - available for Dancinema site members and Frameform Podcast Patreon supporters. Today’s highlight is…

🌟 NINA MCNEELY 🌟 Visionary Award

🏅 Nina McNeely was the recipient of the Standard Vision Artistic Achievement Award for her music video “John L'' for Black Midi but we wanted to give her a Dancinema anniversary award that included her other projects we’ve selected (“Once there was III” and “She Dreamt Alone”). Listen to Frameform Season 4 Episode 12: Alternative Screens & Audiences to hear our conversations with Nina McNeely and Caroline Haydon of Standard Vision. Both are prime examples that, as Nina said in her interview, “if you stick to what you believe in, the world will catch up eventually.”
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, CA, USA

🎙️ Want to have your project included in future Dancinema programming? Submissions are open on FilmFreeway. Visit Dancinema.co/submit for more info.

💖 Programming Panel: Clare Schweitzer, Danielle Jeal, Hannah Weber, Lolly Ashly, Mark Orsborn, Steven Butler, & Jen Ray.

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