Visibility: Self Reflections

Live dance and music procession and film screenings!

Sunday, April 21, 12 noon

EarthDay661 @Yokut's Park

4200 Empire Dr, Bakersfield, CA 93309

Dance Camera West presents Visibility Self Reflections, two-weekend processions of dancers, a community choir, and a mobile film screen parading through Bakersfield to celebrate the world premiere of new films made with Bakersfield residents and guest artists Joy Isabella Brown, Irishia Hubbard, Jon Leanos, Marlene Millar, Lane Michael Stanley, Madison Olandt, Vanessa Sanchez, and Sandy Silva. 

DCW partnered with the migration dance film project and Brockus Dance Company to create this spectacular event as part of the KDA Creative Corps dance film production grant.

Dance Camera West (DCW), the Los Angeles-based nonprofit committed to exploring the possibilities for dance in the context of cinema, wrapped-up the 22nd edition of its international festival, Dance Camera West 2024, in January (1/25-1/28). The festival took place at Barnsdall Art Park’s historic Gallery Theatre atop the beautiful hilltop campus in Los Angeles. An international group of attendees were treated to various screenings, receptions, an insightful workshop, and a tour of the historic Frank Lloyd Wright Hollyhock House.

Over the course of the festival’s four days, DCW 2024 showcased a curated selection of 40 films from 20 countries, each making its World, U.S., or Los Angeles premiere. Carefully chosen from 320 submissions, these films represented the pinnacle of dance film creativity.

Interspersed between the festival’s dynamic film programming, DCW 2024 included receptions hosted by Instituto Cervantes of Los Angeles and Québec Government Office in Los Angeles; a Saturday morning workshop led by world renowned choreographer—and this year’s guest of honor—Javier de Frutos; and DCW’s signature VISIBILITY program, which saw artist, educator, and scholar, Cara Hagan, lead the artist discussion. Dance Camera West concluded the festival with a joyous screening of Jonathan Demme’s 1983 Talking Heads’ concert film, Stop Making Sense. The audience did in fact dance in the aisles just as DCW’s Co-founder and Festival Director Kelly Hargraves had encouraged.

The full list of films that screened at Dance Camera West 2024 is available here: https://dcw2024.eventive.org/films.

SCROLL VIDEO: Dance of the Neurons, Jody Oberfelder/ Eric Siegel