Re- Constructing the Dancing Body: Screen Dance & the ever fluid definition of Place & Time
enCore: Dance on Film features short movies by dance filmmakers from around the world. These screenings are free and open to the public. Screened annually since 2014, enCore: Dance on Film presents a selection of fascinating independent Screen Dance productions and serves as a platform for films which picture dance exclusively for, and with, the camera. Focusing on the interplay between dance and the techniques of filmmaking, enCore: Dance on Film explores the possibilities and boundaries of Screen Dance as an art form.
Showcasing annually since 2014, for enCore: Dance on Film 2024, 88 submissions were received from 25 different countries with 10 final selections.
This year's enCore: Dance on Film 2025 will be streamed on our windows in Decatur Square and Core Dance’s Vimeo site from May 2nd, 2025 to August 31st, 2025.
enCore: Dance on Film 2024
Filmmaker Elias Benedikt Choi-Buttinger
Film: "Shapes of Aether"
Watch previous enCore: Dance on Film on Vimeo
How to apply to enCore : Dance on Film 2025
Applications will be through Film Freeway.
10/1/2024 - Submissions open
2/28/2025 - Submissions close
4/1/2025 - Filmmakers notified
5/2/2025 - enCore: Dance on Film Premiere (Live Screening/Opening Reception)
Films run from May 2, 2025 through August 31, 2025 as window installation and online as chapters.
Meet the 2025 Adjudicators
Elizabeth Geiger
Elizabeth Geiger is an arts administrator and communications professional based in Atlanta, GA. After a career in New York working at Manhattan Theatre Club, Performance Space 122, Dance Theater Workshop, and Lincoln Center Festival, among others, she moved to Atlanta where she happily landed at Core Dance. After eight years at Core Dance, she joined the staff of Georgia Tech Arts and is now a Communications Officer for Student Engagement and Well-Being.
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Christian Meyer
Christian Meyer is a Berlin-based, award winning composer and musician. His work and collaborations span a wide array of mediums, genres, and cultures. He has composed scores for films, commercials, and dance/theatre, created sound installations and video art.
Christian has performed live both in interactive choreography and narrative pieces, as well as the more traditional music performance/venue around the world. In addition to his sound work, Christian explores visual creativity with his fine art photography work.
Awards: Best film music awarded by the union of german film critics :: ADC :: VDW :: Die Klappe :: New York Festival :: Finalist Cannes Lions
Nuno Veiga
Nuno Veiga, born in Viseu, Portugal is a multidisciplinary artist and teacher whose
practice includes sound art, acting, theater direction, video art, installations, teaching, and arts facilitation. Veiga has been working in professional arts contexts since 2001 and graduated in Theater Studies from the University of Évora in Portugal in 2006.
Moving to London in 2011, Veiga continued to work as an actor, audiovisual designer, and arts facilitator, collaborating with various companies and institutions, including Rambert Dance Company’s The Playground, Soho Theater, Knot Theory, Hide Tide, Spare Tire, Battersea Arts Center, Rare Salt and Edinburgh International Festival. As an arts facilitator, Veiga worked with community groups including at-risk youth, the elderly, and people with learning difficulties. As an Associate Artist at Spare Tire, Veiga developed several projects with voiceless communities.
In the last decade, Veiga has worked as a sound artist for dance, film, and installations with choreographers including Yola Pinto, Amélia Bentes, Silvia Pinto Ferreira, Romulus Neagu, Miguel Altunaga Verdecia, Jordan Bridge, Luca Bracia, Zjana Muraro, Darren Ellis, Susan Kempster, Anastasia Papaeleftheriadou, and Robert MacNeill.
Lydia Hance
Dubbed Houston’s “queen of curious locations,” Lydia Hance, is the Founder and Artistic Director of Frame Dance and the Chief Curator of Frame x Frame Film Festival. She has been named an Emerging Leader by Dance/USA and has crafted performances and dance films from the Galveston pier onto the METRO light rail, in the backs of U Haul trucks, downtown tunnels, parks, and museums, stages, and warehouses throughout Texas for the past fifteen years. Dance Magazine says, “Hance is a master of making dances in concert with a specific environment.”
A champion of new music composers, her work deepens interdisciplinary and multigenerational collaborations, and investigates the placement of dance in our lives. Her work has been funded by city, state, and national foundations and she has taught at Washington & Lee University, Rice University, Texas Tech University, Houston Community College and served as choreographer outside of the modern dance world for institutions like the Alley Theater, Horse Head Theater, and Roanoke Ballet Theater.
She and colleague Ashley Horn have developed the Little Framers Curriculum for early childhood that is implemented at Frame Dance, Community Preschools, and Houston Area Womens Center. She is a choreographer, curator, filmmaker, educator, and dance writer originally from the California Bay Area. Her screen dances have been included in festivals across the world including most recently the American Dance Festival (North Carolina), Lady Filmmakers Festival (Beverly Hills, CA), Fuselage Dance Film Festival (Seattle, WA), and the 3 Minute Film Festival (Santa Barbara, CA).
Hance holds degrees in Dance Performance and English Literature from SMU and trained at the Taylor School, Graham School, Tisch School of the Arts, Limon Institute, and SMU and has performed locally, nationally, and internationally with professional dance companies. She has served on artistic advisory boards of Fresh Arts and Diverse Works and has been a curator of the Third Coast Dance Film Festival, Dance Alabama Film Festival, and the enCore Dance on Film Festival.