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

Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch, Mortimer Levitt Foundation, Metabolic Studio of the Annenberg Foundation, James Irvine 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, Broadway Dance Center, Grover Dale, Answers 4 Dancers, Debbie Reynolds, EDGE Performing Arts Center, Dean Harada, Hanna Wise Heiting

     
Dance Camera West Members
   
Anita and Richard Korngute, Marc Crane and Erika Dadura, Monie Adamson, Diane Black, Tim Boettcher, Renae Williams, Carol Flanagan, Robert and Ana Luisa Johnson, The Jane Dorian Company, Glorya Kaufman, Dennis Matthies and Barbara Mindell, Julie McDonald, Arthur Pembleton, Allegra Fuller Snyder, Beth Megill, Gary Erickson, Fred Tallaksen, Howard Schwartz Association, Bonie ODA Homsey, Dvora Iber Ezralow, Paul King and Walter Jaffe, Miriam Gonzalez, Melinda Soderling, Sharon Kinney, Shanda Sawyer, Richard Baker, Denesa Chan, Adele Yoshioka, 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, Ally Moore Voye, Irene Borger, Leeba R Lessin, 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, Raja Muna, Zina Bethune, Kersten Todey, Gene Himes, Mona J Cedar, Loretta Livingston, Rachel Johnson, Belhaven College, David Rousse, Michael K. Hudson, Nancy Malone, Tim Glenn, James Brasic, Marta Renzi, Jillian Meyers, Stephan Koplowitz, Titus Fotso, Nancy Griffin, RajendraSerber, Isabel Valverde, Dorcas Roman Colins, Phyllis Eckler, Mariel McEwan, Bridget A. Murnane, Michael Dawson, Roxane Fenton, Sara Wookey, Lorn H Macdougal, Alain Le Razer, Marilyn Corwin, Myrna Gawryn, Rudolph A Perez, Gregg Michael and Greta Schoenberg, Steven Robman, Angela Lee, Roxane Fenton
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, UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall, 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, Indian Film Festival Los Angeles, Ford Amphitheatre, Autry National Center of the American West, Martin Braude Center Plaza
 

 

Additional Support

Santa Monica Video Complete Media, Café Metropol, Los Angeles City Council 6, Center Dance Arts, KCET, Conscious Dancer, Green Truck, KS Audio, Future Lighting, BACE Pilates, Pacific Rim Printers & Mailers, Dance Resource Center, Career Transitions for Dancers, Dance Channel TV, McDonald Selsnick Associates, TechPal, Cinespace, First Run Features


Staff List

Lynette Kessler, Artistic/Executive Director
Brooke Webber, Festival Coordinator
Lynn Hasty, Green Galactic Public Relations

Candice Love, Sponsorship and Special Projects
Roberta Shaw, Media Consultant (screen)
Michael Wade, Media Consultant (print)
Amy Kramer, Counterintuity, Web

Marguerite de Bourgoing, Online social network
Shari Hyun, Graphic Designer, Festival Postcards
Meredith Goodwin, Development Consultant
Maureen Weiss, Development Associate

Sara Adelman, Arts Management Consultant
E. Paul Brodsky, CPA
Paul Sangster, Future Lighting, Projection Services

Henry Hsiau, KS Audi, Audio Services

 

 

Board of Directors

Allegra Fuller Snyder (Honorary Chair), Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch, Morleigh Steinberg, Hebe Tabachnik, Dean Harada, Sarah Elgart, Paula Walker, Matthew Diamond, Lynette Kessler

Advisory Board

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


Screening Committee

Bridget Murnane, Michael Wade, Sharon Kinney, Vera Wagman, Roxanne Steinberg, Lynette Kessler


Special thanks to our Global Partners

Helene Lesterlin, EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy, New York
Christina Molander SHOOT – Dance for Screen, Sweden

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
Simone Fildes and Katrina McPherson, Media and Dance, Scotland
Marion Mangeng, IMZ Dance Screen
Deirdre Towers, Dance on Camera Festival, New York

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