Moving
Pictures

Do It. See It. Speak It.

Four dance films, four Bay Area master artists, two October evenings in San Anselmo.

Presented by the San Anselmo Arts Commission with curation by Tara Pandeya.

Dates

Saturday, October 17
Sunday, October 18, 2026

Time

4:00 – 9:00 pm daily
Two programs each evening

Location

237 Crescent Rd
San Anselmo, CA

Admission

Free
Reservations required

Reserve your seat Seating is limited

What happens when dance moves from the stage onto the screen?

Moving Pictures is a two-day international dance film series bringing together exceptional dance cinema, live movement, and the perspectives of master artists from different dance traditions.

Across four films, audiences will travel across cultures, eras, and artistic traditions, encountering dance as a way of carrying memory, communicating without words, preserving cultural lineage, and transforming movement into cinematic spectacle.

Each film has been selected around a curatorial lens that connects the film to a particular theme or way of understanding dance. A master artist whose experience and dance tradition relates to that lens will accompany each film, offering a brief live movement presentation and sharing perspectives drawn from their own artistic practice and cultural knowledge.

These artists help audiences navigate the films through the living body, creating connections between what we see on screen and the traditions, histories, and embodied knowledge that inform dance.

01

Do It

A master artist introduces the movement tradition through a few gestures, ideas, and embodied elements.

02

See It

The audience watches the film through that new lens.

03

Speak It

A short conversation afterward brings everyone together around the film, its themes, and the traditions behind it.

Day One

October 17

Cultural opening ceremony

Eddie Madril, PhD

The weekend will open with a special ceremonial presentation by Eddie Madril, PhD, Native American dance artist and scholar, establishing a space for cultural exchange, movement, and shared experience.

Film 01

Latcho Drom

1993 · dir. Tony Gatlif

Curatorial lens: Cultural memory & migration

A visually and musically immersive journey tracing Roma culture from its origins in India across Europe and culminating in flamenco. Dance and music become living archives of migration, identity, memory, and cultural continuity.

Master artist presentation

A master flamenco artist will offer a live movement presentation and perspective on the relationship between flamenco, cultural memory, and the movement of traditions across borders and generations.

Artist to be announced

Film 02

Singin' in the Rain

1952 · dir. Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen

Curatorial lens: Ballet, musical theater & cinematic dance

The most beloved of American movie musicals, and a showcase of Hollywood dance at its most inventive — tap, vaudeville, jazz, and ballet folded into comedy, with choreography built for the camera rather than the stage.

Master artist presentation

A master professional ballet artist will offer a dancer’s perspective on the relationship between ballet and musical theater, and on how choreography created for the stage can be transformed through the camera into cinematic dance.

Artist to be announced

Day Two

October 18

Film 03

Kalpana

1948 · dir. Uday Shankar

Curatorial lens: Dance, imagination & cultural renewal

Uday Shankar’s Kalpana is a landmark of Indian avant-garde cinema — and the only film he ever directed. A surrealist dream-film-within-a-film, it blends dance, fantasy, modernist choreography, elaborate visual spectacle, and social commentary into an extraordinary cinematic vision.

The film was restored under the direction of Martin Scorsese through the World Cinema Project, bringing Shankar’s singular work back to audiences in a new generation.

Master artist presentation

A master dance artist from the classical Indian dance tradition will offer insights on Shankar’s synthesis of Indian dance traditions with international modernism, and his radical conception of cinema as a medium for choreography, imagination, and cultural renewal.

Artist to be announced

Film 04

Pina

2011 · dir. Wim Wenders

Curatorial lens: Rhythm, embodiment & nonverbal communication

Wim Wenders’ landmark portrait of choreographer Pina Bausch and Tanztheater Wuppertal reveals how gesture, rhythm, physicality, theater, and music can communicate experiences beyond spoken language.

Master artist presentation

A master artist from the Bay Area Deaf dance community will explore these ideas through the lens of Deaf dance and embodied communication, offering another perspective on rhythm, gesture, physical expression, and how bodies communicate without relying on spoken language.

Artist to be announced

Plan your visit

Venue

Robson-Harrington House
237 Crescent Rd
San Anselmo, CA 94960

Schedule

Oct 17 & 18, 2026
Doors 4:00 pm · ends 9:00 pm

Admission

Free to attend.
RSVP required; seating is limited.

Reserve your seat
Presented by the San Anselmo Arts Commission Moving Pictures · October 2026