http://www.dancecamerawest.org/new-events daily 0.75 2020-09-06 http://www.dancecamerawest.org/calendar daily 1.0 2026-02-19 http://www.dancecamerawest.org/calendar/event-five-fknp5-ych4h-3gh48-yfwpb-nksx3-77b4l monthly 0.5 2026-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/ba0c6d0e-f96e-414c-9ffb-e5620b1ae388/Shirley_Clarke.gif DCW2026 Schedule - FILM SCREENING/BOOK LAUNCH: EMBODIED FILMMAKING: 8 FILMS BY SHIRLEY CLARKE w/ Karen Pearlman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.dancecamerawest.org/calendar/event-five-fknp5-ych4h-3gh48-yfwpb-nksx3 monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 http://www.dancecamerawest.org/calendar/event-five-fknp5-ych4h-3gh48-yfwpb monthly 0.5 2026-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/1767127203005-PYUXM2SXHCKITRTI70UX/Path_Ian+Eastwood.jpg DCW2026 Schedule - FILM SCREENING: LA POPS UP + WAITING PLACES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/1767127195992-TDWU8CWBZ5R2G8U3QPND/DYAD_+Katherine+Helen+Fisher.png DCW2026 Schedule - 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FILM SCREENING: STORIES & TALES | DAVID ROUSSÈVE RETROSPECTIVE - Make it stand out Stills from Bittersweet, Chili Pepper, Two Seconds After Laughter, and Pull Your Head to the Moon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/71ea2f26-0b66-4053-8b82-83f0add98ee1/Stories.gif DCW2026 Schedule - FILM SCREENING: STORIES & TALES | DAVID ROUSSÈVE RETROSPECTIVE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.dancecamerawest.org/board-staff daily 0.75 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/1f1bd034-bbc0-49aa-a4f3-36b7251c4c0e/186581532_10158687043133802_1514528932861391511_n.jpg Board Members - KELLY HARGRAVES | Executive / Artistic Director Kelly Hargraves is an L.A. dance film creator and curator. She is the current Executive/Artistic Director of Dance Camera West, after co-founding the Los Angeles festival of dance film in 2001. Returning to DCW in 2018, she initiated the Visibility Program for underrepresented artists, which has so far produced 12 films by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists. She also created streaming revenue for DCW selected filmmakers. Kelly has a Masters in Dance Film from NYU Gallatin School (Dance and Film History), a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University, and a BA in Communication Studies (Minor in Theater History) from the University of Windsor, in Canada. She danced independently in Montréal and New York, and was a member of PoMo CoMo artist and scientist collective directed by Rafael Lozano Hemmer in the 1980s. Kelly has directed several dance films that screen internationally, and she travels as a guest lecturer, panel speaker and jury member throughout the world. Hargraves has been a board member of the Silver Lake Film Festival, and a founding member of the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival. Having worked for U.S. indie film distributors First Run Features, Film Movement, Icarus Film, Kelly has represented a diversity of artists such as Michael Apted, Lizzie Borden, Cheryl Dunye, Barbara Kopple, Ross McElwee, Monika Truet, and Wayne Wang, amongst many more. She was also a dance reviewer for Dance Insider, Ballet–Tanz International, Dance on Camera News, Danceonline.com, Campus Circle Magazine, Cover Magazine, and Dance Connection Magazine, and a radio music DJ for over 10 years in Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/5a94a728-921f-4df1-8eca-a35b4abd0a04/kittymcnamee.nateluskphoto-301.jpg Board Members - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/602ca8d8-a2cf-4539-b6a7-b8647915a7f0/IMG_1352.jpg Board Members - SOPHIE ROBERTSON |Board Member, 2018 - Board President, 2022 - Present Sophie started her career in the US in the marketing department at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, where she was introduced to the world of contemporary dance and became an avid supporter of dance performance and film. In 2007, Sophie moved to Los Angeles and landed at UCLA Live (now CAP UCLA) becoming the Marketing Manager and interim Marketing Director. She soon began to feel the pull of her education background and love of working with children and decided to take the position of Assistant Director at a small preschool in Venice and then director at WPC Preschool. While working in the early childhood education field, she developed a strong interest in creating inclusive programs that enable young children with autism and other special needs to learn alongside neuro-typical peers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/30be3f53-0098-4c23-b61a-ac12599d68f3/Lynn+Tejada+by+Keida+Mascaro+022022-0155-3.jpg Board Members - LYNN TEJADA | Communications Director Board Member, 2018 - Present For 30 years, arts and culture publicist Lynn Tejada, the founder of PR firm Green Galactic, has been navigating the worlds of performing, visual, screened, and recorded art. Founded in 1993, in the heart of Hollywood, the company provides publicity, promotion, and marketing consulting services to an eclectic array of mind-blowing and soul-touching clients who frequently blur the line between popular culture and fine art. greengalactic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/bce16a1d-b86c-4df2-a3b5-49261da1d060/Himerria-331.jpg Board Members - HIMERRIA WORTHAM | Board Member, 2024 - Present Himerria Wortham is an interdisciplinary artist from Berlin, Germany, by way of Detroit, now based in Los Angeles. Her work seamlessly bridges commercial, artistic, and academic realms. She began her career as a professional commercial dancer, performing with legends such as Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, and Shakira. Her television appearances include HBO’s Euphoria, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the Academy Awards. Wortham has also danced in music videos and live TV performances with artists like Toni Braxton and Carly Rae Jepsen. As a choreographer and movement director, Wortham has created for stage, television, and film. Her standout projects include choreographing the experimental Spotify AR music video Pineapple Skies by Miguel and serving as movement director for Thistles and Thorns, a short film inspired by West African mythology. Most recently, she worked as head choreographer for Disney Channel’s Saturdays. Wortham’s movement style draws from hip-hop, jazz, ballet, West African dance, street styles like waacking and house, contemporary improvisation, and site-specific dance theater. To complement her dance training, Wortham studied Sanford Meisner's acting technique at Playhouse West, improvisational comedy at Groundlings, and stage combat through her Jeet Kune Do teacher, Jahi Zuri. As the former Associate Artistic Director of Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD), a site-specific dance company, Wortham led community-based projects across Los Angeles. Among her most significant teaching experiences were residencies at the California Institution of Women and the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility, where she used dance to foster healing and self-expression among incarcerated individuals. These experiences later inspired her graduate thesis film, Endless Echoes Within, an experimental documentary created with visual artist Sherrick Enriquez. The film explores Enriquez’s journey to find his artistic voice as a formerly incarcerated person and was screened at the Wende Museum and the Japanese American National Museum. Wortham also co-produced, directed, and choreographed the award-winning dance film Moving Portraits with her collaborator Raquel Cabrera. This project celebrates their mixed Algerian and respective Mexican heritages through contemporary dance, examining themes of dignity, and the legacy of colonialism. Moving Portraits was featured at ITSLIQUID International Art Exhibition: THE BODY LANGUAGE in Venice, Italy, and now tours with L.A. Pops Up, a traveling dance film series curated by Hysterica Productions and Dance Camera West. Currently, Wortham is completing a Master’s Degree in Visual Anthropology, Media, and Documentary Practices. Her research focuses on improvisational dance as a method of knowledge production in ethnographic filmmaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/821aebf9-25ad-44e5-b648-7c17bda01049/IMG_8856.jpg Board Members - IRISHIA HUBBARD ROMAINE | Board Member, 2022 - 2024 Irishia Hubbard Romaine (she/her) is a choreographer, filmmaker, and educator from South Carolina. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Dance at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and a 2024 Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM). Additionally, Irishia holds the distinction of being the inaugural recipient of the Donald McKayle Legacy scholarship. Her research in screendance examines the unwritten history of Black moving image arts by analyzing Africanist Aesthetics in American dance, photography, and film. In the Spring of 2024, she will complete a Short-Term Fellowship at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture dedicated to supporting her proposed project, "Reimagining Screendance: Reclamation of Black Aesthetics in Dance Film History." As a filmmaker, Irishia’s work explores themes of visibility, ancestral veneration, and Black liberation. Irishia's films have achieved international acclaim, premiering at esteemed festivals including Cinevox, ADF Movie By Movers, Auro Apaar, Black Lives Rising, Mignolo International Screendance Festival, Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Dancecinema, Desassossego Short Dance Film Festival, and many more. Notably, her film, "Red Line," was selected for Dance Camera West's 2022 Mentorship Program and received the Denton Black Film Festival's 2024 Virtual People's Choice Award. This film has been screened across diverse locations, including India, Spain, Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington D.C., North Carolina, Texas, Michigan, and the United Kingdom. Irishia holds an MFA in Modern Dance and a Screendance certification from the University of Utah, where she received the Ellen Bromberg Dance Media Award, the College of Fine Arts Creative Research Award, and a University Teaching Assistantship (UTA). Her other roles include professional stager for the Donald McKayle Legacy and Visibility Program Director for Dance Camera West. www.irishiahubbard.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/a1d5edd1-4d32-4a1e-a5c4-ec2550b7a6d5/08BAA623-6A0B-4950-9DE6-B2165DE11DB9.jpeg Board Members - CATI JEAN | Program Director, Board Member, 2018 - 2024 Originally from Versailles, Cati Jean grew up in Grasse, South of France and studied extensively with renowned teachers from the nice conservatory, Cannes, the Cuban Ballet and Paris Opera. She performed a wide range of the classical repertory before studying the Jose Limon and Martha Graham techniques in Paris. As a performer, Cati worked in television and performed in renowned cabarets in Paris, lived in Japan and then moved to Los Angeles. Cati is involved into creating visual numbers for aerialists, coaching numerous actors in dance. directing live shows and short films. She was an adjunct professor at Santa Monica college, teaches master classes around the world and is recognized as an inventive choreographer, conceptual artist and visual poet. She is the producer, creator and director of the successful French-style cabaret L’effleur des Sens” and Nuit Blanche. She has choreographed onstage for Kylie Minogue, Janes Addiction, Carrie Underwood, and for music videos by Rancid, and Silk to name a few. Cati has performed with Prince, Bryan Setzer Orchestra, Toni Braxton, Ricky Martin, The Gipsy Kings, East 17, Jay-Z and Tina Turner. Her film credits include, Ms Claus, Cinderella, Three to Tango, Rock Star, Ocean’s Eleven, Jag, The Shield and Kiss Kiss, Bang, Bang.She judged and choreographed for Bravo’s reality show Step it Up and Dance, created aerial choreography and trained Jessica Biel in Powder Blue. catijean.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/d0a47b6b-c8c6-48b9-9edf-f456a58df332/lexia.jpg Board Members - LETXIA CORDOVA | Board Member, 2022 - 2023 Letxia Cordova is a Mexican American photographer, filmmaker, and dancer in Los Angeles with a passion for dance films, music videos, and docu shorts. Letxia’s philosophy as an artist emphasizes accessibility, inclusivity, and social awareness – anyone can and should experience the joys of creating art, especially through film and dance. Letxia has been directing, filming, editing, and choreographing dance films since 2015, teaching herself extensively through online platforms, LA-based workshops, attending dance and filmmaking events, and taking classes at Santa Monica College. Letxia has studied a variety of dance styles since 2010. However, her biggest influence as a dancer comes from training under Karen McDonald and Mark Tomasic at Santa Monica College, where she studied ballet, modern, floorwork, and release technique. In 2021, Letxia choreographed and directed “Bluebird” for Dance Film Night with Nachmo LA. That same year, she was accepted into the SHIFT/West Residency with Brockus Project Studios, where she choreographed and directed “BOXED.” Since then, she’s had the pleasure of working with a myriad of talented, passionate dancers, artists, directors, and producers on making dance films, music videos, and docu shorts. Her dance film, “Reflection” was accepted into the 2022 Mobile Dance Film Fest in NYC. In 2021, she received a grant from Dance Camera West to re-edit her dance film, “The Sun” where it screened at their 2022 DCW Film Festival under their Commissioned Films. Most recently, Letxia is delighted to have become a Dance Camera West board member, where she is motivated to continue her work in increasing visibility for marginalized communities. After performing for Beatriz Vazquez’s “A La Rueda Rueda” for Ebb & Flow in June 2022, Letxia is elated to have started teaching for Heidi Duckler Dance as a teaching artist. As a dancer, Letxia will be performing in December 2022 with LA Unbound. letxia.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/bdbbe659-7d28-4ff7-ba6f-a7b8110c62e0/Screenshot+2023-07-09+at+8.32.20+AM.jpg Board Members - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/bd267422-9a55-404e-8b27-9a121f72a1b4/DAVIDROUSS%C3%88VE.jpg Board Members https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/7f19918b-1462-494c-901c-041a1716e317/georgelugg.jpg Board Members https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/8b9eca53-0afe-4890-9a31-5145ebd31dc0/amber+photo.jpg Board Members - AMBER PATEE ADAMS | Festival Producer Board Member, 2022 - 2023 Amber Patee Adams is a producer, director, and choreographer with a love for both dance and film. She is the Festival Producer for Dance Camera West and teaches Ballet and dance classes at UCLA. She worked for the Dance Films Association and the Dance on Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Film Society in New York City from 2011-2018. She has been an invited Artist Resident at Dance-A-Lorus for three years combining live dance and film performances. Recently, her dance film "Stature" won a 2020 NY Movie Award and her comedic short "Sh*t Queen" is an official selection for the Hollywood Gold Awards. She has produced and edited film content for Roundabout Theatre Company, NBC, Iman Cosmetics, MTV and several nonprofit organizations. She produced feature films, "Finding Home, A Film for National Adoption Day," "8 Slices," "Vigilante," and "A Little Water," all on Amazon Prime. Amber Adams is a graduate of the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts and received her BFA in Ballet and Communication Arts from Marymount Manhattan College. Amber studied with American Ballet Theater, the NY Conservatory for the Dramatic Arts School of Film and Television, Joffrey Ballet School, Steps on Broadway and many other schools around the world. She danced for numerous New York City-based choreographers. She is a SAG Signatory Producer, a member of NYWIFT, and a certified Dance Master of America. She has a continuous curiosity in how we communicate a sense of truth through moving images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/1f1bd034-bbc0-49aa-a4f3-36b7251c4c0e/186581532_10158687043133802_1514528932861391511_n.jpg Board Members - KELLY HARGRAVES | Executive / Artistic Director A trailblazer in the intersection of movement and film, Kelly has been instrumental in shaping DCW’s legacy, from co-founding the dance film in festival in 2001 to returning in 2018 with a renewed vision of inclusivity and innovation. Kelly’s roots are in dance and film, which provide the foundation of her pioneering work with DCW, including her advocacy for underrepresented voices through initiatives like the Visibility Program. She has seen first hand how the genre of dance film has evolved over the years, amplifies the importance of creative collaborations, and hopes that the festival continues to unite artists and audiences from around the world. Kelly is an L.A. dance film creator and curator. She has a Masters in Dance Film from NYU Gallatin School (Dance and Film History), a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University, and a BA in Communication Studies (Minor in Theater History) from the University of Windsor, in Canada. She danced independently in Montréal and New York, and was a member of PoMo CoMo artist and scientist collective in the 1980s. Kelly has directed dance films that screen internationally, and she travels as a guest lecturer, panel speaker and jury member. Hargraves has been a board member of the Silver Lake Film Festival, and a founding member of the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival. Having worked for U.S. indie film distributors First Run Features, Film Movement, Icarus Film, Kelly has represented a diversity of artists such as Michael Apted, Lizzie Borden, Cheryl Dunye, Barbara Kopple, Ross McElwee, Monika Truet, and Wayne Wang, amongst many more. She was also a dance reviewer for Dance Insider, Ballet–Tanz International, Dance on Camera News, Danceonline.com, Campus Circle Magazine, Cover Magazine, and Dance Connection Magazine, and a radio music DJ for over 10 years in Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/5a94a728-921f-4df1-8eca-a35b4abd0a04/kittymcnamee.nateluskphoto-301.jpg Board Members - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/bce16a1d-b86c-4df2-a3b5-49261da1d060/Himerria-331.jpg Board Members - HIMERRIA WORTHAM | Board Member | Program director Himerria Wortham is an interdisciplinary artist from Berlin, Germany, by way of Detroit, now based in Los Angeles. Her work seamlessly bridges commercial, artistic, and academic realms. She began her career as a professional commercial dancer, performing with legends such as Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, and Shakira. Her television appearances include HBO’s Euphoria, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the Academy Awards. Wortham has also danced in music videos and live TV performances with artists like Toni Braxton and Carly Rae Jepsen. As a choreographer and movement director, Wortham has created for stage, television, and film. Her standout projects include choreographing the experimental Spotify AR music video Pineapple Skies by Miguel and serving as movement director for Thistles and Thorns, a short film inspired by West African mythology. Most recently, she worked as head choreographer for Disney Channel’s Saturdays. Wortham’s movement style draws from hip-hop, jazz, ballet, West African dance, street styles like waacking and house, contemporary improvisation, and site-specific dance theater. To complement her dance training, Wortham studied Sanford Meisner's acting technique at Playhouse West, improvisational comedy at Groundlings, and stage combat through her Jeet Kune Do teacher, Jahi Zuri. As the former Associate Artistic Director of Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD), a site-specific dance company, Wortham led community-based projects across Los Angeles. Among her most significant teaching experiences were residencies at the California Institution of Women and the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility, where she used dance to foster healing and self-expression among incarcerated individuals. These experiences later inspired her graduate thesis film, Endless Echoes Within, an experimental documentary created with visual artist Sherrick Enriquez. The film explores Enriquez’s journey to find his artistic voice as a formerly incarcerated person and was screened at the Wende Museum and the Japanese American National Museum.Wortham also co-produced, directed, and choreographed the award-winning dance film Moving Portraits with her collaborator Raquel Cabrera. This project celebrates their mixed Algerian and respective Mexican heritages through contemporary dance, examining themes of dignity, and the legacy of colonialism. Moving Portraits was featured at ITSLIQUID International Art Exhibition: THE BODY LANGUAGE in Venice, Italy, and now tours with L.A. Pops Up, a traveling dance film series curated by Hysterica Productions and Dance Camera West. Currently, Wortham is completing a Master’s Degree in Visual Anthropology, Media, and Documentary Practices. Her research focuses on improvisational dance as a method of knowledge production in ethnographic filmmaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/602ca8d8-a2cf-4539-b6a7-b8647915a7f0/IMG_1352.jpg Board Members - SOPHIE ROBERTSON | Board President, 2022 - Present Sophie started her career in the US in the marketing department at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, where she was introduced to the world of contemporary dance and became an avid supporter of dance performance and film. In 2007, Sophie moved to Los Angeles and landed at UCLA Live (now CAP UCLA) becoming the Marketing Manager and interim Marketing Director. She soon began to feel the pull of her education background and love of working with children and decided to take the position of Assistant Director at a small preschool in Venice and then director at WPC Preschool. While working in the early childhood education field, she developed a strong interest in creating inclusive programs that enable young children with autism and other special needs to learn alongside neuro-typical peers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/30be3f53-0098-4c23-b61a-ac12599d68f3/Lynn+Tejada+by+Keida+Mascaro+022022-0155-3.jpg Board Members - LYNN TEJADA | Communications Director | Board Member, 2018 - Present For 30 years, arts and culture publicist Lynn Tejada, the founder of PR firm Green Galactic, has been navigating the worlds of performing, visual, screened, and recorded art. 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Cati is involved into creating visual numbers for aerialists, coaching numerous actors in dance. directing live shows and short films. She was an adjunct professor at Santa Monica college, teaches master classes around the world and is recognized as an inventive choreographer, conceptual artist and visual poet. She is the producer, creator and director of the successful French-style cabaret L’effleur des Sens” and Nuit Blanche. She has choreographed onstage for Kylie Minogue, Janes Addiction, Carrie Underwood, and for music videos by Rancid, and Silk to name a few. Cati has performed with Prince, Bryan Setzer Orchestra, Toni Braxton, Ricky Martin, The Gipsy Kings, East 17, Jay-Z and Tina Turner. Her film credits include, Ms Claus, Cinderella, Three to Tango, Rock Star, Ocean’s Eleven, Jag, The Shield and Kiss Kiss, Bang, Bang.She judged and choreographed for Bravo’s reality show Step it Up and Dance, created aerial choreography and trained Jessica Biel in Powder Blue. catijean.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/a2b143ef-a12b-43ff-aeda-60b8121370e9/dillon+howl.jpeg Board Members - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/8b9eca53-0afe-4890-9a31-5145ebd31dc0/amber+photo.jpg Board Members - AMBER PATEE ADAMS | TRAILER PRODUCER, 2025 | Festival Producer 2018 & Board Member, 2023 Amber Patee Adams is a producer, director, and choreographer with a love for both dance and film. She was the Festival Producer for Dance Camera West and teaches Ballet and dance classes at UCLA. She worked for the Dance Films Association and the Dance on Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Film Society in New York City from 2011-2018. She has been an invited Artist Resident at Dance-A-Lorus for three years combining live dance and film performances. Recently, her dance film "Stature" won a 2020 NY Movie Award and her comedic short "Sh*t Queen" is an official selection for the Hollywood Gold Awards. She has produced and edited film content for Roundabout Theatre Company, NBC, Iman Cosmetics, MTV and several nonprofit organizations. She produced feature films, "Finding Home, A Film for National Adoption Day," "8 Slices," "Vigilante," and "A Little Water," all on Amazon Prime. Amber Adams is a graduate of the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts and received her BFA in Ballet and Communication Arts from Marymount Manhattan College. Amber studied with American Ballet Theater, the NY Conservatory for the Dramatic Arts School of Film and Television, Joffrey Ballet School, Steps on Broadway and many other schools around the world. She danced for numerous New York City-based choreographers. She is a SAG Signatory Producer, a member of NYWIFT, and a certified Dance Master of America. She has a continuous curiosity in how we communicate a sense of truth through moving images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/821aebf9-25ad-44e5-b648-7c17bda01049/IMG_8856.jpg Board Members - IRISHIA HUBBARD ROMAINE | Board Member, 2022 - 2024 Irishia Hubbard Romaine (she/her) is a choreographer, filmmaker, and educator from South Carolina. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Dance at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and a 2024 Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM). Additionally, Irishia holds the distinction of being the inaugural recipient of the Donald McKayle Legacy scholarship. Her research in screendance examines the unwritten history of Black moving image arts by analyzing Africanist Aesthetics in American dance, photography, and film. In the Spring of 2024, she will complete a Short-Term Fellowship at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture dedicated to supporting her proposed project, "Reimagining Screendance: Reclamation of Black Aesthetics in Dance Film History." As a filmmaker, Irishia’s work explores themes of visibility, ancestral veneration, and Black liberation. Irishia's films have achieved international acclaim, premiering at esteemed festivals including Cinevox, ADF Movie By Movers, Auro Apaar, Black Lives Rising, Mignolo International Screendance Festival, Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Dancecinema, Desassossego Short Dance Film Festival, and many more. Notably, her film, "Red Line," was selected for Dance Camera West's 2022 Mentorship Program and received the Denton Black Film Festival's 2024 Virtual People's Choice Award. This film has been screened across diverse locations, including India, Spain, Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington D.C., North Carolina, Texas, Michigan, and the United Kingdom. Irishia holds an MFA in Modern Dance and a Screendance certification from the University of Utah, where she received the Ellen Bromberg Dance Media Award, the College of Fine Arts Creative Research Award, and a University Teaching Assistantship (UTA). 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She performed a wide range of the classical repertory before studying the Jose Limon and Martha Graham techniques in Paris. As a performer, Cati worked in television and performed in renowned cabarets in Paris, lived in Japan and then moved to Los Angeles. Cati is involved into creating visual numbers for aerialists, coaching numerous actors in dance. directing live shows and short films. She was an adjunct professor at Santa Monica college, teaches master classes around the world and is recognized as an inventive choreographer, conceptual artist and visual poet. She is the producer, creator and director of the successful French-style cabaret L’effleur des Sens” and Nuit Blanche. She has choreographed onstage for Kylie Minogue, Janes Addiction, Carrie Underwood, and for music videos by Rancid, and Silk to name a few. Cati has performed with Prince, Bryan Setzer Orchestra, Toni Braxton, Ricky Martin, The Gipsy Kings, East 17, Jay-Z and Tina Turner. Her film credits include, Ms Claus, Cinderella, Three to Tango, Rock Star, Ocean’s Eleven, Jag, The Shield and Kiss Kiss, Bang, Bang.She judged and choreographed for Bravo’s reality show Step it Up and Dance, created aerial choreography and trained Jessica Biel in Powder Blue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/5d353098-4b4a-49f2-83da-d4cc535e119c/Screenshot+2026-01-05+at+9.36.27%E2%80%AFAM.png DCW 2026 Jury - BERNARD BROWN Bernard Brown is a performing artist, choreographer, filmmaker, educator and arts activist working at the crossroads of Blackness, Queerness and belonging. A first-generation college graduate, Brown earned an MFA in choreography from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. Most recently he taught dance at Loyola Marymount University and is currently a California Arts Council Established Artist Fellow. As artistic director of Bernard Brown/bbmoves, a social justice dance theater company, he choreographs for stage, specific sites, film and opera. Brown also conducts workshops, lectures, presentations and master classes in the U.S. and internationally, from Israel and Panama to Africa and Brazil. He is a core member of Street Dance Activism and an ongoing collaborator with Dancing Through Prison Walls, an abolitionist project. Brown’s work has been presented across the globe, including the Centre de Développement Choregraphique La Termitière, The Saint Louis Black Repertory Company, Dance Camera Istanbul, the Japanese American National Museum, among others. He was also recently invited to be part of a U.S. State Department sponsored two-city tour to Burkina Faso, West Africa in 2023. For nearly three decades, Brown has toured with and performed in the choreography of leaders of the dance field, including Lula Washington Dance Theatre, David Rousseve/REALITY, Donald McKayle, Rennie Harris, Rudy Perez, Pat Taylor, Doug Elkins, Dwight Rhoden, Janessa Clark, Shapiro and Smith Dance, TU Dance and Lucinda Childs, to name a few. More career highlights include restaging Donald McKayle’s canonical “Games” for the Kennedy Center’s “Masters of African American Choreography,” performing on the Daytime Emmy’s, Penumbra Theater’s “Black Nativity” and Donald Byrd’s “Harlem Nutcracker,” and being the titular principal dancer in Nike’s “12 Miles North: The Nick Gabaldon Story,” the first documented Afro-Mexican American surfer. Brown is also a proud member of the American Guild of Musical Artists. Brown’s wide-ranging commissions have included the City of Los Angeles, Santa Monica Symphony, South Chicago Dance Theater, the Fowler Museum and a host of universities and community organizations. Brown has also developed work in residencies with The Music Center, Johns Hopkins University, Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, B Street Theater, Loyola Marymount University, Theatre Soleil (Burkina Faso) and Dance Italia. Additionally, Brown is published in the peer-reviewed dance journal, Dancer-Citizen, and in The Activist History Review. He conceived of and curates Rooted Rhythmic Futures, a dance series and festival that brings Blackness, Indigeneity and Queerness squarely to the center of our consciousness. His activism has been featured in Dance Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/5c5bfece-2fe6-4dbd-b388-1135fee1aa66/KarenPearlman-portrait10%28bluesuit%29slight+desat.jpeg DCW 2026 Jury - KAREN PEARLMAN Karen Pearlman writes, directs, and edits dance-driven films, documentaries and wildly creative hybrids of actuality, archive, fiction and wishful thinking about feminist film histories. Karen’s short films about historical women editors (2016, 2018 & 2020) have won 34 competitive national and international awards from peak industry bodies and film festivals. Her film ‘Breaking Plates’ was awarded ‘Best Short Documentary’ at the 2025 Antenna International Film Festival for “... a playful invitation to consider very serious questions of feminism and voice, as well as dynamics of structure and agency” (Jury Citation). A former President of the Australian Screen Editors (ASE) Guild, Karen received the Guild’s highest honour in 2024: accreditation. A 5-time ASE Best Editing Award nominee, and 2 time winner, Karen is the author of Cutting Rhythms, Creative Film Editing, which is now in its third edition and has translations into Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Arabic. She is also the author of the monograph Shirley Clarke Thinking through Movement (EUP 2025) – the first book on this maverick dancer turned editor turned director, and the first to advance Karen’s novel feminist ideas about distributed authorship. Karen is the director, with Richard James Allen, of The Physical TV Company, whose documentary, drama, and dance films have been broadcast on ABC and SBS-TV, screened at more than 500 film festivals on six continents, garnering well over 100 awards or nominations, and added to the collections of 10 major film archives around the world. Before turning to filmmaking Karen had a distinguished career as a dancer in the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and with Timothy Buckley and the Troublemakers. Her duet company with Richard James Allen, THAT WAS FAST, broke ground in the live mix of text, dance, and computer animation and their collaborative creations toured to over 100 venues on three continents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b613793e00be5c9d44c96d/830c834d-e231-465e-83eb-b71e8884f2d2/Nadav+Heyman.jpg DCW 2026 Jury - NAdav heyman Nadav is an award-winning writer and filmmaker specializing in movement based films. He is the founder and artistic director of DanceFilmmaking.com, an international platform for dance films and home of the Dance Film of the Year award. His most recent dance film, "Old Man at the Corner Store" won the Audience Award in Prague, Portland, Spain, Utah, and Los Angeles. 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