The Vault: Bay Area Legends | SFDFF

Next month, SFDFF opens The Vault and shines a light on the early work of four Bay Area Legends.
On Thursday, June 6th at the Delancey Street Theater, San Francisco, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival honors four Bay Area choreographers - Ellen Bromberg, Joe Goode, Margaret Jenkins, and Brenda Way - and the filmmakers with whom they created historic dance films for national public television.
In 1989, the PBS series “Alive From Off Center” made an unprecedented pitch to KQED TV to produce collaborative dance pieces representing the best dance in San Francisco. The result was three films produced for KQED by Linda Schaller: “Shorebirds Atlantic”, “The Black Dress”, and “29 Effeminate Gestures”. The fourth film on our program, “Loose the Thread”, came two years later as part of a full-length program celebrating ODC/Dance’s 20th anniversary.
The success and longevity of these films are a testament to the quality of the Bay Area choreographers, dancers, and production teams involved that were tasked with reinterpreting the avant-garde dance works for television.
The screening followed by a conversation with the four choreographers. Please join us as we raise a glass to our amazing local dance artists and filmmakers. They are still making history!
The films screened are used by permission of Twin Cities Public Television and KQED, Inc.