Dancing Through the Lens
Dancing Through the Lens is a bimonthly podcast from the San Francisco Dance Film Festival that features guests from the festival's dance and filmmaking communities. It offers a platform for artists in the dance world to share their interests and insights and discuss how they use film to create work and connect with audiences.
Episodes
28 episodes
Episode 12: Tamara Rojo
Tamara Rojo, a former Royal Ballet principal dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet, is now forging new paths as the new artistic director of San Francisco Ballet. Over the course of her decade-long leadership of ENB, Rojo over...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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20:20
Episode 11: Vanessa Sanchez (La Mezcla)
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 wo...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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21:36
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Episode 10: Steven Melendez
Steven Melendez is the artistic director of New York Theatre Ballet, a Manhattan-based ballet company dedicated to performing classic masterpieces and new contemporary works for adults and innovative hourlong ballets for young children. Steven'...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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21:45
Episode 9: Bridget Murnane (director of Bella)
Bella Lewitzky was a modern-dance pioneer and an outspoken politically active champion of artistic freedom. The theatrical premiere of the documentary Bella, about Lewinsky’s life, work, and activism will take place at the San Francisco Dance F...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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21:13
EPISODE 8: Lenora Lee & Olivia Ting
Lenora Lee, artistic director of Lenora Lee Dance and Olivia Ting, multimedia graphic designer, had been collaborative partners for quite some time, and are currently working on their newest premiere "In The Movement" which will run for nearly ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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21:51
Episode 7: Nadia Adame
Nadia Adame is a Spanish multidisciplinary award-winning artist with a spinal cord injury and the current artistic director of AXIS Dance Company. She studied Ballet & Flamenco at the Royal Dance Conservatory of Madrid and has a BA i...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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18:19
Episode 6: Sean Dorsey
Sean Dorsey is recognized as one of the country's first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographers and the first transgender artist to appear on the cover of Dance Magazine. Sean not only presents his own work through Sean Dorsey dance, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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20:23
Episode 5: Babatunji
If you've seen dance in the Bay Area, you've probably seen Babatunji. His extraordinarily athletic and almost superhuman movement style has captivated audiences both onstage as a longtime company member for Alonzo King Lines Ballet as well as o...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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21:25
Episode 4: Tori Lawrence
Tori Lawrence is a choreographer & filmmaker who produces immersive site-specific dances, interdisciplinary performance installations, and dance films that explore the relationship among body, landscape, and architecture. During the month o...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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18:15
Episode 3: "I Just Wanna Dance" team (Amanda Beane/Kristina Willemse/Zoe Mountain)
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 Mount...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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21:10
Episode 2: Chris Ouellette
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 manage...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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20:50
Episode 1: Morgan Bullock
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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18:09
Episode 15: Michaela DePrince (live Q&A)
This fall saw another edition of the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and for the first time in two years, screenings in front of a live audience. We were fortunate to be able to present four live programs during the twelfth edition of our fes...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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21:41
Episode 14: Rashaad Newsome
Rashaad Newsome is a world-renowned multidisciplinary artist whose work blends multiple practices—including collage, sculpture, film, music, technology, and performance and crafts compositions that speak of and to Black and Queer culture. His l...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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23:22
Episode 13: Amy Seiwert and Ben Needham-Wood
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&nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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24:45
Episode 12: Adrienne Liron, "Coppelia" Producer
If you have attended the San Francisco Dance Film Festival over the years, you have likely seen captures of spectacular live performances from around the world such as A Swan Lake, Betroffenheit and Revisor. The producer of these films, A...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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25:32
Episode 11: Fog Beast (Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward) & Lindsay Gauthier
This week, Coral sits down with the 2021 SFDFF Co-Laboratory team of dance-based performance group Fog Beast and filmmaker Lindsay Gauthier. Directed by Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward, Fog Beast weaves social, physical and aural...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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22:31
Episode 10: Gary "Icecold" Morgan & Yoram Savion: Part 2
On this second episode of a two-part conversation with Turffeinz member Gary “ Ice Cold” Morgan and YAK films co-founder Yoram Savion, we discussed how Yoram’s early filmmaking days in Oakland served as the best possible training ground for col...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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21:44
Episode 9: Gary "Icecold" Morgan & Yoram Savion: Part 1
If there is any style of dance that the Bay can call its own, its turfing. Whether seen on a BART train or an E-40 video, the physics defying physical storytelling of turfing can turn any place into a stage. But it was one performance from the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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19:10
Episode 8: Evie Ladin
This week on Dancing Through the Lens, Coral spoke with Evie Ladin. Not only is Ladin the director of the Oakland-based MoToR/dance, she is a singer/songwriter with many groups including the eponymous Evie Ladin band and also the director of th...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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20:26
Episode 7: Ben Estabrook
This week, Clare spoke with Ben Estabrook: director, cinematographer, SFDFF technical director and educator. We discussed his initial interest in dance film, his teaching philosophy and advice he has for filmmakers working with dancers. We also...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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20:36
Episode 6: RAWdance
This week on Dancing Through the Lens, Coral spoke with RAWdance co-artistic directors (and former SFDFF CoLaboratory participants) Wendy Rein, Ryan T. Smith and Katerina Wong. The episode discusses the challenges of operating a bi-coastal comp...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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23:04
Episode 5: Lydia Clinton
This week, Clare had the opportunity to speak with Lydia Clinton, a freelance dance artist who has performed with many groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Capacitor, PUSH Dance Company and Zaccho Dance Theater. Over the past year, s...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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23:14