Moving Pictures: A Moment in Time - The Rise and Untimely Fall of Canada's First Dancefilm Festival
Abstract
This memoir by co-founder Kathleen Smith offers a brief history of the Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video, a screendance event and touring program that took place annually in Toronto from 1992 through 2006. Though ground-breaking in its interdisciplinary approach and popular with both audiences and artists, the pressures of unstable funding, changing urban landscapes and a labour-intensive format ultimately made the festival unsustainable. This essay chronicles the highs and lows of festival development in the dancescreen sector at a crucial moment in time.
How to Cite:
Smith, K., (2025) “Moving Pictures: A Moment in Time - The Rise and Untimely Fall of Canada's First Dancefilm Festival”, The International Journal of Screendance 15(1), 3-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.18061/screendance.6996
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