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

Day One

October 17

Cultural opening ceremony

Eddie Madril, PhD

The weekend will start with an opening ionvocation with Eddie Madril, PhD, a member of the Pascua Yaqui tribe of Southern Arizona and Northern Sonora Mexico, 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.

Live Flamenco Presentation by Damien Alvarez

Damien Alvarez is a flamenco master artist who has trained extensively in Spain and the Bay Area, studying with leading artists including Manuel Reyes, Alfonso Losa, José Maya and Fanny Ara. Grounded in classical flamenco, his work brings together rhythmic precision, improvisation and deeply expressive performance.

damienalvarezflamenco.com

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.

Live Ballet Artist Response by Wilhelmina Frankfurt

Wilhelmina Frankfurt is a former New York City Ballet soloist who spent fourteen years dancing under legendary choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, and met Gene Kelly as a young dancer—an encounter that left a lasting impression on her artistic life. Now Executive Artistic Director of San Anselmo’s Stapleton School of the Performing Arts, she carries this extraordinary lineage of 20th-century dance into the next generation.

stapletonschool.org/faculty

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.

Live Performance and Artist Presentation by Antonia Minnecola, Barbara Framm, and Dancers of Saraswatikalanilaya School of Classical South Indian Dance

Antonia Minnecola is a master Kathak artist and longtime disciple of legendary dancer Sitara Devi who has devoted more than five decades to Indian classical arts, performing internationally alongside her late husband, tabla maestro Zakir Hussain; she is also a producer of Moment Records. Barbara Framm is a master Bharatanatyam artist, educator, and director of San Anselmo’s Saraswati Kala Nilaya, whose more than five decades of practice have been devoted to studying, performing, and transmitting Indian classical dance.

antoniam3.sg-host.com
facebook.com/SKNDance

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.

Live Drum & Dance Performance and Presentation by Ibrahima Diouf & members of Diamano Coura Dance Company

Ibrahima Diouf began performing professionally with the acclaimed Diamano Coura West African Dance Company at age twelve and today serves as the company’s choreographer, carrying forward a remarkable family lineage of West African dance and music. Founded in 1975 by National Heritage Fellow Dr. Zakarya Diouf, Diamano Coura has spent five decades preserving, performing, and evolving the dance, music, and cultural traditions of West Africa.

diamanocoura.org

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.

Do It

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

See It

The audience watches the film through that new lens.

Speak It

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

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.

Questions

arts@sananselmo.gov

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