37th Annual 2009 Dance on Camera Festival Awards and Reception Photos

By Maria Esteves - February 1, 2009

The 37th Annual 2009 Dance on Camera Festival (DOCF09), Awards and Reception co-sponsored by the Dance Films Association (DFA) and Film Society of Lincoln Center, was held at the Walter Reade Theater, Roy Furman Gallery, New York, Saturday, January 10, 7:00 PM. The award acknowledges the best in dance films and emerging directors. The award announcers were DFA artistic director Deirdre Towers, dance online consultant Marlon Barrios Solano, and festival juror Caterina Bartha, DCOF.

2009 DCOF award announcers DFA artistic director Deirdre Towers,
(right), and dance online consultant Marlon Barrios Solano, DCOF.

2009 DCOF Special Recognition Award winner, LOUISE
SPAIN, DFA treasurer, (right), with her husband Mel Spain.

2009 DCOF Awards reception, director Bertrand
Normand, BALLERINA, (right), with director Gwendolen
Cates “Water Flowing Together.”

2009 DCOF Jury Prize Award winner Dahci Ma
MYSTERIES OF NATURE.

2009 DCOF Special Mention Award winners, program director
Jennifer S.B. Calienes, (left), and filmmaker Shoko Letton,
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS, MANCC.

2009 DCOF Special Mention Award winner, molecular
biologist/journalist/producer John Bohannon, The
American Association for the Advancement of Science,
THE SCIENCE DANCE PROJECT.

2009 DCOF Special Mention Award winner, producer
Caleb Custer, CEDAR LAKE, PROJECT 52.

2009 DCOF Special Mention Award winner, filmmaker
Shoko Letton, RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS, MANCC.

2009 DCOF Jury Prize Award nominee, co-director Allen Kaeja, (left),
with co-producer Douglas Rosenberg, (center), and choreographer /performer David Dorfman, OF THE HEART.