Dance Camera West Film Festival

In 2025 Dance Camera West (DCW), will celebrate its 25th year as the world-renowned, Los Angeles-based organization committed to exploring dance on screen.

Dance Camera West 2025 will take place on Wednesday, January 29 to Sunday, February 2, 2025 at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, atop the beautiful hilltop Barnsdall Art Park (4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027) with a special presentation at the Philosophical Research Society (3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027).

Single tickets are $25 and a full festival pass—which includes all screenings and receptions–is $250. Early Bird Special is $125 regular; $100 for students (before January 1).

Dance Camera West 2025 will showcase a curated selection of 50+ films from 20 countries that represent the pinnacle of dance film creativity—each making its World, U.S., or Los Angeles premiere. This year, programs will include DCW’s signature VISIBILITY program premieres, a retrospective of Los Angeles choreographer David Roussève, a world premiere feature doc from Benjamin Millepied’s Paris Dance Project, LA POPS UP, curated by Kitty McNamee | Hysterica, celebrating L.A.’s unique industry choreographers, plus a reprise screening of Wim Wender’s iconic dance film PINA in 3D.

The 2025 edition will also include a five day co-creation lab for filmmakers and dancers, artist Q&As, and receptions to enrich the community experience.

Opening Night Program 

Benjamin Millepied|Paris Dance Project

world premiere

Center Piece Programs

LA POPS UP curated by Kitty McNamee|Hysterica

DCW VISIBILITY Program and  Dance Film as a Cultural Language Wim Wenders’ PINA in 3D

Closing Night Program

Dance Icon David Roussève 

Retrospective and Reception

Schedule Details

Friday, January 31 

7:00 pm

VISIBILITY 

Featuring six films created through DCW’s signature VISIBILITY production fund. Hosted by artist, educator, and scholar Irishia Hubbard Romaine. DCW’s current DCW VISIBILITY project is funded by the California Arts Council’s KDACC grant and the National Endowment for the Arts

Dance As a Cultural Language

A screening of shorts from Suriname, India, Finland and Fiji, in which the body participates in the restructuring of knowledge production. Films represent the range and richness of dance and ritual practice as a negotiation of past and present, an embodiment of ancestral history, and a re-imagination of cultural knowledge. A panel discussion with filmmakers explores the question how dance and cinema can offer an alternative and addition to western textual knowledge production.  

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Date: January 29 - February 2, 2025