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Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company wishes all a peaceful and joyful 2024! Making people smile. Placing one’s hands in another’s. Looking into someone’s eyes. This is the beginning of partnering. This connection is in greater demand than ever now in the world. Looking. Really seeing. Really Listening. Developing Trust. Promoting Empathy. These are the hallmarks of dance and dance education, of sharing the love of this artform and unspoken method of communication. DGDC’s programming has manifest this philosophy since our inception. As we continue into our 25th year, we continue to invest. From the very beginning we have been a teaching and performing company. As an organization, we are continuing to invest. In dancers. In collaborators. In students. In audiences. In innovative interactive programming designed to involve everyone, promote these qualities we all need, and empower youth to feel good about themselves and learn to cooperate with others.

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Charged screens at Cuadro por Danza Festival in Caracas, Venezuela (9/9); London International Screen Dance Festival at Laban Theatre (10/12-13), and Exeter Dance International Film Festival (10/16-22) in the UK’s South West.

Charged, a dance film by Daniel Gwirtzman, was featured in the opening event program for the 5th edition Cuadro por Danza Festival, screening Saturday, September 9th at Centro de Arte Los Galpones in Caracas, Venezuela. This colorful PDF details the programs:

Charged has been selected to screen at the London International Screen Dance Festival at Laban Theatre in London. This biennial event is “a celebration of the inventive and experimental integration of movement, choreography and the moving image on screen.” The Festival dates are October 12th and 13th and features a lineup of a total of 28 films from China, Spain, Brazil, Taiwan, Romania, Greece, Iran, Canada, India, Italy, Poland, France, Indonesia, the UK, and the US. Acclaimed choreographer Hofesh Shechter and director Mitchell Rose are among the filmmakers. Visit their site for more..

Charged is also an official selection of the Exeter Dance International Film Festival and will be shown online between October 16th-22nd. EDIFF is a not-for-profit international dance film festival for the UK’s South West. Set in the heart of Exeter, this yearly full day and evening event in October is “brimming with world-class independent dance films.” Available for anyone in the world to watch! Visit this link to purchase tickets.

ABOUT THE FILM

Charged showcases an over-caffeinated Everywoman in her kitchen on the brink of disaster. A portrait of a driven, detailed woman who manages an array of tasks, alternating between the discipline of accomplishing and the daydream of departure. Humor, grit, exhaustion, frustration, and liberation emerge as themes as the soloist pursues unexpected and surprising actions within an expected and unsurprising setting.

The film was commissioned by the Texas-based Flatlands Dance Theatre and made its premiere during the Solo Series, a week-long screening (May 2021). It subsequently screened to live audiences at the DanceBARN ScreenDANCE Festival in Battle Lake, Minnesota (July 2021) at TDP’21, Tipperary Dance Platform’s international dance festival, which “brings the best of dance from the world” to Tipperary, Ireland (October, 2021), the Thessaloniki Cinedance International in Thessaloniki, Greece (September 2022), the Third Coast Dance Festival in Reno, Nevada (February 2023), at the Opine Dance Film Festival, presented by the Bryn Mawr Film Institute at Bryn Mawr College (March 2023), and the American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers Festival during ADF’s 90th Anniversary Season at Duke University (June 2023).

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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Presents Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company in Everybody Can Dance An Interactive Performance, part of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City July 26, 2023, 11:30am New York City-based Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company kicks off its 25th Anniversary Season this summer with the premiere of Everybody Can Dance, […]

Closing Weekend: June 2-4, 2023: Three Shows. All Livestreamed! Made for TV! Friday, June 2: 7:30pm EST Saturday, June 3: 7:30pm EST Sunday, June 4: 2pm EST VISIT OUR e-MOTION PAGE FOR INFO, TICKETS, VIDEOS, & PRESS

e-Motion, co-produced by The Cherry Arts and Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company LIVESTREAM and IN PERSON TICKETS Performance Times Fri May 26, 7:30 pm //Sat May 27, 7:30 pm // Sun May 28, 2:00 pm Fri Jun 2, 7:30 pm //Sat Jun 3, 7:30 pm // Sun Jun 4, 2:00 pm DEDICATED E-MOTION WEBSITE for more […]

Mid-March 2023. The Company and our collaborators have been busy preparing for the spring premiere e-Motion. Pictured, playwright Saviana Stanescu, creating text for the dance, dancer Sarah Hillmon, Daniel, and photographer/videographer Stefanos Milkidis. Following a full day’s rehearsal at the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Tribeca Performing Arts Center’s theatre, the four enjoyed the late […]

Charged, which showcases an over-caffeinated Everywoman in her kitchen on the brink of disaster, continues to gain acceptance into film festivals. March 18, 2023 it screened at the Opine Dance Film Festival presented by the Bryn Mawr Film Institute at Bryn Mawr College. “The 8th annual festival celebrates dance-film makers locally, nationally, and internationally who […]

Daniel Gwirtzman is a New York State Council of the Arts Grantee, having received a FY2023 Support for Artists grant award sponsored by The Cherry Arts, in Ithaca, New York! Thanks to Governor Kathy Hochul, and Katherine Nicholls, Chair, and Mara Manus, Executive Director, of the New York State Council on the Arts, Daniel has […]

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REMEMBERING JEFFREY S. STORY A native of Columbus, Ohio, Jeff began his professional affiliation with movement accompanying at Ballet Met and for the dance department at The Ohio State University. In Philadelphia, where Jeff lived for more than two decades, he accompanied and composed for the Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco), Pennsylvania Ballet, The University of […]