Dance Camera West 2024, was held January 25-28, 2024. The festival took place at Barnsdall Art Park’s historic Gallery Theatre atop the beautiful hilltop campus in Los Angeles. An international group of attendees were treated to various screenings, receptions, an insightful workshop, and a tour of the historic Frank Lloyd Wright Hollyhock House.

Over the course of the festival’s four days, DCW 2024 showcased a curated selection of 40 films from 20 countries, each making its World, U.S., or Los Angeles premiere. Carefully chosen from 320 submissions, these films represented the pinnacle of dance film creativity.

Interspersed between the festival’s dynamic film programming, DCW 2024 included receptions hosted by Instituto Cervantes of Los Angeles and Québec Government Office in Los Angeles; a Saturday morning workshop led by world renowned choreographer—and this year’s guest of honor—Javier de Frutos; and DCW’s signature VISIBILITY program, which saw artist, educator, and scholar, Cara Hagan, lead the artist discussion. Dance Camera West concluded the festival with a joyous screening of Jonathan Demme’s 1983 Talking Heads’ concert film, Stop Making Sense. The audience did in fact dance in the aisles just as DCW’s Co-founder and Festival Director Kelly Hargraves had encouraged.

The full list of films that screened at Dance Camera West 2024 is available here: https://dcw2024.eventive.org/films.