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Dance Camera West’s 2007 programming is funded in part by:

Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch, Mortimer Levitt Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, Allen D. Kohl Foundation, Anita Mann Productions, Lloyd E. Rigler and Laurence E. Deutsch Foundation, Morleigh Steinberg, National Endowment for the Arts, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, EarthWays Foundation, Joe Tremaine, Alley Kat Studios, Broadway Dance Center, Grover Dale, Answers 4 Dancers, Debbie Reynolds, EDGE Performing Arts Center, Dean Harada, James Sharvin

     
Dance Camera West Members
   
Anita and Richard Korngute, Marc Crane and Erika Dadura, Diane Black, Tim Boettcher, Renae Williams, Carol Flanagan, Robert and Ana Luisa Johnson, Glorya Kaufman, Dennis Matthies and Barbara Mindell, Julie McDonald, Arthur Pembleton, Allegra Fuller Snyder, Beth Megill, Gary Erickson, Miriam Gonzalez, Melinda Soderling, Sharon Kinney, Shanda Sawyer, Denesa Chan, Natalia Duncan, Leonie Janken, Leonard Kleinrock, Claudia Lopez, John D. Malpede, Aaron Paley, Christoph Pilafian, Lisi Rona, Christina Tarantola, Erin Beneze, Ana C. Baer, Cheryl Banks- Smith, Toni Basil, Amy Bojanjwski, Judith Donin Siskind, Colleen Dunagan, Angela Esposito, Cyrice Griffith, Scott GG Haller, Jude Jansen, Jason Myles Neff, Abbe Land and Martin Ganfman, Mariah Malec, Eva Nemeth, Cynthia Newland, Sarah M Meyers, William Salmon, Maida Withers, Shana Habel, Maya Gingery, Michael Lesser, Tonia Shimin, Lia C. Azeal, Laura Karlin, Maggie Arackelian, Hilary Bryan, Valerie Cabag, David Corbet, Damien Gomez, Charles Kaplow, Terry Sprague, Christian Panouillot, Shana Habel, Becky Heist, Penelope Richards, Elizabeth Buchanan, Yu Xiao
Dance Camera West Presenting Partners
REDCAT, Hammer Museum, American Cinematheque, Director’s Guild of America, Los Angeles Film Festival, Screen Actors Guild, Dance at the Music Center, Indian Film Festival Los Angeles, UCLA Live, Grand Performances, The Getty Center, Japan American Theatre, TreePeople, EZTV, American Film Festival, LA Center for Digital Art, UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures, 18th Street Arts Center, Goethe Institute, Laemmele Theaters, Skirball Cultural Center, Track 16, Ford Amphitheatre
 

 

Additional Support

Santa Monica Video Complete Media, Café Metropol, Los Angeles City Council 6, Center Dance Arts, BACE Pilates, Pacific Rim Printers & Mailers, Future Lighting, Disc Makers, John Bwarie LA City Council District 12, Arturo Gonzlez LA City Council District 6, Dance Resource Center, Career Transitions for Dancers, Dance Channel TV, Variety, Belvedere Vodka, Toni Thomas, Ryan Lohoff, McDonald Selsnick Associates, TechPal, Cinespace, First Run Features, The Mandrake, Kyoto Grand Hotel & Gardens


Staff List

Lynette Kessler, Artistic/Executive Director
Brooke Webber, Festival Coordinator
Genevieve Carson, Festival Coordinator
Lynn Hasty, Green Galactic Public Relations
Roberta Shaw, Media Consultant (screen)
Michael Wade, Media Consultant (print)
Amy Kramer, Counterintuity, Web
Kay Moonstar, Graphic Designer, Festival Postcards
Juan Tallo, Photography, Festival Trailer
Meredith Goodwin, Development Consultant
Maureen Weiss, Development Associate
E. Paul Brodsky, CPA
Paul Sangster, Future Lighting, Projection Services
Mike Reed, TechPal
Shawn Hall, Our stellar FedEx guy

 

 

Board of Directors

Allegra Fuller Snyder (Honorary Chair), Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch, Morleigh Steinberg, Hebe Tabachnik, Dean Harada, Nadine LeGouguec, Sarah Elgart, Lynette Kessler, James Sharvin

Advisory Board

Richard Baker, Ellen Bromberg, Keith Collea, Lisa Gross, Hanna Heiting, Susan Hwang, Sharon Kinney, Eric Koziol, Bob Lockyer, Judith Luther Wilder, Victoria Marks, Judy Mitoma, Bridget Murnane, Roberta Shaw, Roxanne Steinberg, Michael Wade


Screening Committee

Jacquelin Kim, Bridget Murnane, Michael Wade, Sharon Kinney, Cari Ann Shim Sham, Roxanne Steinberg, Lynette Kessler


Special thanks to our Global Partners

Silvinia Sperling, Festival Internacional de Videodanza de Buenos Aires
Leonel Brum, Projecto Danca em Foco Festival Internacional de Danca, Brasil Tamara Cubas, Festival Internacional de Videodanza del Uruguay
Circuito Videodanza Mercosur, South America
Janine Dijkmeijer, Cinedans, The Netherlands
Helene Lesterlin, EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy, New York
Christina Molander SHOOT – Dance for Screen, Sweden
Simone Fildes and Katrina McPherson, Media and Dance, Scotland
Marion Mangeng, IMZ Dance Screen
Deirdre Towers, Dance on Camera Festival, New York
Christiana Galanopoulou, MIRfestival, Greece

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BEST of 2006 and 2007
Selected as one of the ten best dance events in Los Angeles for 2006 and 2007.
- THe L. A. Times
"Stunning in its variety, Powerful performances… Consistently surprising… Funny, sexy and endlessly resourceful… adventuresome films"
- The L. A. Times
"No venue or series offers a more exciting array of major international choreographers"
- The L. A. Times
"One of the top 25 organizations to watch."
- Dance Magazine
"...a significant presence... exerting a strong influence on the development of dance and dance audiences in our city."
- Steven D. Lavine, President, California Institute of the Arts