Dancing Through the Lens is a bimonthly podcast from the San Francisco Dance Film Festival that features guests from the festival's dance and filmmaking communities. It offers a platform for artists in the dance world to share their interests and insights and discuss how they use film to create work and connect with audiences.
Tamara Rojo, a former Royal Ballet principal dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet, is now forging new paths as the new artistic director of San Francisco Ballet. Over the course of her decade-long leadership of ENB, Rojo oversaw the creation of many dance films, most notably helmed by the creative team of Jess and Morgs (Jessica Wright & Morgann Runacre-Temple). These films have delighted audiences at SFDFF over the years. One of those films, An Evening with Taglioni, w...
4 Oct 2022
Episode 11: Vanessa Sanchez (La Mezcla)
La Mezcla is a polyrhythmic San Francisco based dance and music ensemble rooted in Chicana, Latina and Indigenous traditions and social justice. Its founder, Vanessa Sanchez, spoke with us about the process of developing the company's latest work Ghostly Labor, a film and soon-to-be dance theatre piece that explores the history of labor in the US Mexico Borderlands. We spoke about the extensive research and development of the work, rhythmic crafting and hybridization and capturing clean sound...
20 Sept 2022
Episode 10: Steven Melendez
Steven Melendez is the artistic director of New York Theatre Ballet, a Manhattan-based ballet company dedicated to performing classic masterpieces and new contemporary works for adults and innovative hourlong ballets for young children. Steven's introduction to ballet began as a young child through the New York Theatre Ballet School's LIFT scholarship program that creates an equal opportunity and an accessible dance training environment for talented at-risk homeless and underserved children. ...
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