By Maria Esteves - February 1, 2009 The 37th Annual 2009 Dance on Camera Festival (DOCF09), Awards and Reception was held at the Walter Reade Theater, New York, Saturday, January 10, 7:00 PM. The award acknowledges the best in dance films and emerging directors. The award announcers were DFA artistic director Deirdre Towers, dance online consultant Marlon Barrios Solano, and festival juror Caterina Bartha, DCOF. Since 1956, Dance Films Association, Inc. (DFA) founded by Susan Braun is ...

Thursday, January 4-----Annie Leibovitz, the superstar photographer, has famously said that dance is the one medium that is almost impossible to correctly capture via the still photograph. Because of its key element, movement in space, it is much better suited for the moving picture format. That speaks directly to lovers of dance and dance on film who should revel in the Dance on Camera Festival, which premieres this week at New York’s Walter Reade Theater. Screenings continue this week thro...