Yerevan, September 8. ArmInfo. The 7th International Festival of Dance Films “Movie Dance” will take place in Armenia for the first time from September 28 to October 1. The best dance films provided by video archives of 30 countries will be demonstrated during the festival, Melik Karapertyan, a member of the Association of Movie Critics and Journalists of Armenia, Director of the Movie Department, the National Picture Gallery, told ArmInfo. The films to be demonstrated were short from 1980 to 2006. In addition, professional teachers and film directors Alla Cowgan and Alisa Cordon from the USA will give master- classes and lectures for choreographers, dancers and cameramen. The festival has no contest program, it just aims demonstrations of retro films. The films by Armenian directors will be demonstrated during the festival as well.
The dance movie has become popular in Armenia at the beginning of 1980s when choreographers from New York, Boston and Saint Petersburg expressed a desire to show the world the methods, principles and the rules of making a high-quality dance film. Since then, festivals of dance movie were organized in these cities, and the films by Armenian film director Artavazd Peleshyan “Inhabitants” and “Seasons of the Year” took a good place during the festivals. The 4th International Festival “Movie Dance” demonstrated a film by another American Armenian film director Michael Demirijyan “Dancers go to Bowling.”
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