Thu Nov 9
7.00pm
7.00pm
Lights Dance Fest 2023 – PRISM [Hybrid]
film
Screendances
May 5, 2023 - Aug 8, 2024
1 Film , 2 Events
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NWFF champions dance films and interdisciplinary dance programs, offering space for artists working across movement disciplines to take over the stage and screen.
This listing includes upcoming and archived dance film festivals, dance film shorts, dance film features, interdisciplinary live performances, burlesque + drag film series, and live performances.
Header image credit: Gravity, dir. Paul Shepherd
Dance Film Festivals
Fri Nov 10
8.00pm
8.00pm
Lights Dance Fest 2023 – Resurgence [Hybrid]
film
Fri Nov 10
7.00pm
7.00pm
Lights Dance Fest 2023 – Turtles All the Way Down [Hybrid]
film
Sun Nov 20
4.00pm
4.00pm
Lights Dance Fest 2022 – Bloom [Hybrid]
film
Sun Nov 27
All Day
All Day
Lights Dance Festival 2022: Remnants [Hybrid]
event
Sat Nov 19
7.00pm
7.00pm
Lights Dance Fest 2022 – Dream Within a Dream [Hybrid]
film
Fri Oct 15
All Day
All Day
ILLuminations: Lights Dance Festival 2021 [Online]
event
Fri Jan 10
7.30pm
7.30pm
Fuselage Dance Film Festival: Winter Program
film
Sat Dec 13
7.00pm
7.00pm
Next Dance Cinema
film
Sat Dec 13
8.00pm
8.00pm
Next Dance Cinema
film
Dance Film Shorts
Sat Apr 29
7.00pm
7.00pm
Cadence 2023 – A tune to contain all your revolt [Hybrid]
film
Sat Apr 1
4.30pm
4.30pm
Black Collectivity Presents: A Practice of Return [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Mar 19
4.00pm
4.00pm
ByDesign 2023 – In the In-Between: Short Film Program [Hybrid]
film
Sat Oct 22
7.00pm
7.00pm
MALACARNE Movie Night: Short films by Alice Gosti and MALACARNE [In-Person Only]
event
Wed Sep 21
7.30pm
7.30pm
Local Sightings 2022 – Living Experiments [Hybrid]
film
Sun Jun 26
All Day
All Day
BeautyBoiz presents: Black Pride Celebration Vol. 3 [Online]
event
Sat May 28
7.00pm
7.00pm
The Emerge Arts 2022 Cohort and Showcase [In-Person Only]
film
Sun May 22
7.30pm
7.30pm
Travessias 2022 – Brazilian BLM [Hybrid]
film
Fri Apr 22
7.00pm
7.00pm
Cadence 2022 – What is hidden needs to be seen [Hybrid]
film
Sun Mar 27
7.00pm
7.00pm
EL SUEÑO Film Premiere [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Feb 27
4.00pm
4.00pm
Moving History – Doris Chase: A Bridge to Awareness [In-Person Only]
film
Sun Mar 20
6.00pm
6.00pm
ByDesign 2022 – Show Me the Change: Short Film Program
film
Sun Sep 19
8.45pm
8.45pm
Local Sightings 2021 – Motion Reel: Dance Shorts
film
Sun Apr 25
All Day
All Day
Cadence 2021 – This Is How I Excavate [Online]
film
Sun Apr 25
All Day
All Day
Cadence 2021 – Uncanny Intermingling [Online]
film
Sun Jan 10
4.30pm
4.30pm
Virtual Moving History – The Video Artwork of Doris Chase
film
Sat Dec 19
All Day
All Day
zoe | juniper’s “ordinary grief / the people to come.” [This is Beethoven Festival Online]
event
Sun Sep 27
All Day
All Day
Local Sightings 2020 – Artist Spotlight: Kiana Harris’ AJE IJO Series
event
Sun Sep 27
All Day
All Day
Local Sightings 2020 – Artist Spotlight: BeautyBoiz: The Collective
event
Sun Sep 27
All Day
All Day
Local Sightings 2020 – Motion Reel (Dance Shorts Program)
event
Sun Sep 27
All Day
All Day
Local Sightings 2020 – Mindscapes (Experimental Shorts Program)
film
Sun Sep 27
All Day
All Day
Local Sightings 2020 – Mad World (Shorts Program)
film
Sun Sep 27
All Day
All Day
Local Sightings 2020 – FEM-POW! (Shorts Program)
film
Sun Sep 27
All Day
All Day
Local Sightings 2020 – COLORBURST (Shorts Program)
film
Sun Jul 12
4.30pm
4.30pm
Virtual Moving History XVI – Black Washington: Arts & Culture
film
Sun Jun 21
4.30pm
4.30pm
Virtual Moving History XIII – Dance Like Everyone’s Watching (Part 1)
film
Thu Jun 11
7.30pm
7.30pm
Virtual Housing Design Week – Spatial Features [Online]
film
Thu Apr 16
7.30pm
7.30pm
Cadence 2020 – Pivot Turn: Video Poetry Showcase [Online]
film
Wed Apr 15
7.30pm
7.30pm
Henry Art Gallery 2020 – Sight Lines: Cadence Video Poetry Showcase [Online]
film
Sat Mar 21
6.30pm
6.30pm
ByDesign [Online] 2020 – Niemeyer 4 Ever w/ Frame + Astana, City of the Future?
film
Sat Mar 21
8.00pm
8.00pm
ByDesign [Online] 2020 – The clocks were striking thirteen: Short Film Program
film
Wed Mar 18
7.30pm
7.30pm
ByDesign [Online] 2020 – Hidden w/ Space Needle: A Hidden History
film
Sat Jan 11
5.30pm
5.30pm
Perpetual Vessels – Malacarne in residence at the W.T. Preston
event
Wed Nov 27
6.30pm
6.30pm
2019 Sundance Indigenous Shorts
film
Sun Nov 22
4.30pm
4.30pm
Virtual Moving History – Experimental Entertainment
film
Sun Sep 22
8.00pm
8.00pm
Local Sightings 2019 – Frame by Frame: Dance Shorts Program
film
Sun Sep 22
6.30pm
6.30pm
Local Sightings 2019 – Motion Reel: Dance Shorts Program
film
Thu Sep 27
7.15pm
7.15pm
Local Sightings 2018 – BODIES (Experimental Shorts Program)
film
Sat Nov 11
7.00pm
7.00pm
#shanghaipulse w/ Paige Barnes
event
Sat Sep 30
1.15pm
1.15pm
Local Sightings 2017 – Hurtling Through Space (Shorts Program)
film
Sun Sep 24
1.45pm
1.45pm
Local Sightings 2017 – Amalgamate & Create (Shorts Program)
film
Sun Jul 19
8.15pm
8.15pm
RADAR: Exchanges in Dance Film Frequencies
film
Dance Film Features
Thu May 11
7.00pm
7.00pm
Mother for you I made this, ten years later. [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Mar 19
6.00pm
6.00pm
ByDesign 2023 – Light Without Sun (Lys uden Sol) [Hybrid]
film
Thu Oct 13
7.00pm
7.00pm
Earshot Jazz DOUBLE FEATURE: No Maps On My Taps + About Tap [In-Person Only]
film
Sat Feb 26
4.00pm
4.00pm
Velocity Presents: G2 – King Lear in the Forest [In-Person Only]
film
Sun Mar 28
All Day
All Day
ByDesign [Online] Festival 2021
event
Sat Nov 7
All Day
All Day
Earshot Jazz – Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance [Online]
film
Sun Jul 26
All Day
All Day
The AMP Virtual Arts Series – Dance with No Dominion [Online]
film
Fri Jul 17
All Day
All Day
Aviva [Online]
film
Sun Jul 19
All Day
All Day
Cunningham [Online]
film
Wed May 13
7.30pm
7.30pm
In Plain Sight Film Series – The Call of Dance (L’Appel à la Danse au Sénégal) [Online]
film
Sun Mar 8
4.30pm
4.30pm
Flamenco Syndrome
film
Sat Jan 25
7.00pm , 4.00pm
7.00pm , 4.00pm
Redoubt (Matthew Barney)
film
Thu May 16
7.30pm
7.30pm
If the Dancer Dances
film
Mon Mar 25
7.15pm
7.15pm
When the Wolves Came In – Kyle Abraham / Abraham.In.Motion
film
Thu Dec 20
7.30pm
7.30pm
Impulso
film
Wed Mar 28
7.30pm
7.30pm
Dark Matters – Kidd Pivot | Crystal Pite
film
Sat Mar 3
7.00pm
7.00pm
Rebels on Pointe
film
Sat Dec 2
8.00pm , 4.00pm
8.00pm , 4.00pm
Bruk Out! A Dancehall Queen Documentary
film
Sat Sep 2
7.45pm
7.45pm
No Maps On My Taps & About Tap
film
Fri Aug 11
8.00pm
8.00pm
Tango Negro
film
Thu Mar 23
8.00pm
8.00pm
Mr. Gaga
film
Sun Feb 12
4.30pm
4.30pm
MA
film
Interdisciplinary Live Performances
Wed Mar 8
6.00pm
6.00pm
Opacity of Performance – An AWP Offsite Event [In-Person Only]
event
Fri Nov 18
7.00pm
7.00pm
Lights Dance Fest 2022 – Opening Night: Remnants [Hybrid]
film
Thu Nov 10
8.00pm
8.00pm
NIGHTLIGHT: Blood Moon [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Jun 19
8.00pm
8.00pm
Cherdonna presents Goodnight Cowboy [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Apr 3
4.00pm
4.00pm
The Seattle Project presents “truth be told” [In-Person Only]
event
Sun May 3
4.30pm
4.30pm
CHArts Streaming Festival – Closing Day: Toe Jam, MIPoPS, Longhouse Media, Vanishing Seattle & Velocity Dance Center
event
Sat May 2
4.30pm
4.30pm
CHArts Streaming Festival – The AMP, Hugo House, CHBP & Kame Haus Afterparty!
event
Fri May 1
7.00pm
7.00pm
CHArts Streaming Festival – Crybaby Studios & BeautyBoiz
event
Thu Apr 30
7.30pm
7.30pm
CHArts Streaming Festival – SubKulture Underground & Community Partners
event
Wed Apr 29
6.30pm
6.30pm
CHArts Streaming Festival – Opening Night: Photographic Center NW & CD Forum
event
Sun Nov 22
All Day
All Day
Sovereign Festival 2020 [Online]
event
Thu Feb 27
8.45pm
8.45pm
The Seattle Project presents “The How of it Sped” by Amanda Morgan
event
Sat Nov 2
8.00pm
8.00pm
Dollhouse
event
Sat Aug 24
8.00pm
8.00pm
Queens (Encore)
event
Sat Aug 3
4.00pm
4.00pm
festival:festival 2019
event
Sat Jun 22
8.00pm
8.00pm
Queens
event
Fri Aug 10
6.00pm
6.00pm
festival:festival 2018 Opening Night Party
event
Sat Aug 11
1.00pm
1.00pm
festival:festival 2018
event
Sat Jul 28
6.30pm
6.30pm
What is Home an Obscure Kingdom an Opera Buffa It’s You Always You
event
Wed Jun 27
7.00pm
7.00pm
Joy Ride Screened and Alive: Adventures of Unavoidable Embodiment
film
Sun Apr 29
7.00pm
7.00pm
Chantal?
event
Sat Mar 10
7.45pm
7.45pm
HIJACK Making Dances
event
Sun Sep 24
4.00pm
4.00pm
Local Sightings 2017 – Clear and Sweet 360º by zoe | juniper
event
Sat Jul 29
5.00pm
5.00pm
FESTIVAL:FESTIVAL 2017
event
Thu Jul 7
10.30am
10.30am
PALMS w/ Paige Barnes
event
Burlesque + Drag Film Series
Sun Jan 14
8.00pm
8.00pm
Mourning Sickness Vol. 2 – Showgirls [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Oct 8
8.00pm
8.00pm
Mourning Sickness Vol. 2 – The Brady Bunch Movie [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Jul 16
8.00pm
8.00pm
Mourning Sickness Vol. 2 – Serial Mom [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Apr 9
8.00pm
8.00pm
Mourning Sickness Vol. 2 – Sister Act [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Jan 15
8.00pm
8.00pm
Mourning Sickness Vol. 1 – Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Jul 17
8.00pm
8.00pm
Mourning Sickness Vol. 1 – Mommie Dearest [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Apr 17
8.00pm
8.00pm
Mourning Sickness Vol. 1 – Burlesque [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Oct 16
8.00pm
8.00pm
Mourning Sickness Vol. 1 – Showgirls [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Nov 1
All Day
All Day
Nocturnal Emissions – House on Haunted Hill [Online]
film
Sun Sep 13
All Day
All Day
Nocturnal Emissions – Good Manners (As Boas Maneiras) [Online]
film
Thu Sep 12
7.30pm
7.30pm
Nocturnal Emissions – Night of the Creeps
film
Thu Nov 14
7.30pm
7.30pm
Nocturnal Emissions – Attack the Block
film
Thu Oct 24
7.30pm
7.30pm
Nocturnal Emissions – Ginger Snaps
film
Thu Dec 12
7.30pm
7.30pm
Nocturnal Emissions – The Masque of the Red Death
film
Thu Mar 21
7.30pm
7.30pm
Nocturnal Emissions – The People Under the Stairs
film
Thu Feb 21
7.30pm
7.30pm
Nocturnal Emissions – Ganja & Hess
film
Thu Jan 17
7.30pm
7.30pm
Nocturnal Emissions – Phantasm
film
Thu Apr 18
7.30pm
7.30pm
Nocturnal Emissions – Slumber Party Massacre II
film
Movement Workshops
Sun Apr 30
5.30pm
5.30pm
Cadence 2023 – Somatic Spiraling: The Body as a Creative Resource [In-Person Only]
event
Thu Mar 9
5.30pm
5.30pm
Off the Page – An AWP Offsite Event [In-Person Only]
event
Sat Mar 11
4.00pm
4.00pm
Somatic Spiraling: The Body as a Creative Resource – An AWP Offsite Event [In-Person Only]
event
Sun Mar 11
2.30pm
2.30pm
The HIJACK Experience at Velocity Dance Center
workshop
Thu Sep 29
7.00pm
7.00pm
Local Sightings 2016 – Velocity Dance Film
workshop
Fri Mar 2
12.00pm
12.00pm
NETFLEX
event