Dance Cinema aims to inspire artists, filmmakers, dancers, choreographers, and audiences around the world with the language of dance, cinema & artistic narratives. 

Dance Cinema is an online archive cinema that offers regular, high quality screen dance works directed by visual / dance artists and filmmakers whose production lies in-between contemporary art, dance and cinema. 

​Films and videos are published for 1 month, and featured alongside podcast interviews with their makers – from directors to dancers, editors to cinematographers, sound to costume designers.

Screendance works are selected due to the importance of their content, their collaborative curiosity, and originality in blurring the boundaries between cinema, dance, and contemporary art.  Based in Sydney, Australia, we host annual public festival screenings, gallery exhibitions and dance filmmaking masterclasses.

MEET THE TEAM

Melissa Ramos
Founding Director & Curator
Melissa is a creative technologist, artist, filmmaker & curator. She has globally collaborated extensively with choreographers and dancers, widely exhibited including Art Gallery of New South Wales; Sydney, Gallery 4A; Sydney, ISEA; USA,  21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa; Japan, Copenhagen Denmark; House of Dance Denmark, Vargas Museum; Manila Philippines, Singapore Art Museum, Berlin Asian Film Festival, Dox Contemporary Art Museum Czech Republic, and the Kunstquartier Bethanien; Berlin, Germany. ​Her other means is operating a jewellery business and a freelance user-experience designer.
Alexia Newsome
​Editor & Business Writer
Alexia is currently completing her Bachelor of Psychology at Macquarie University. She brings to Dance Cinema over 3 years experience in the Not-For-Profit sector, having received grants to work on behalf of organisations in the Philippines, Indonesia, Fiji and Australia. Her most recent research project was concentrated in remote and rural areas of Fiji, where she worked alongside a local NGO to evaluate programs that prevent violence against women and their families. She has a unique combination of skills that blend grant writing, direct marketing, campaigning, recruitment, visual arts and research design.
Orion James Mitchell
Programs Co-ordinator & Photographer
Orion James Mitchell is a Sydney based artist, photographer, and occasional dancer. Orion has recently completed a Masters in Business and Leadership at Australian Film Television Radio School (AFTRS).
Tobias Brittan
Director of Photography & Exhibition Manager
Tobias has over 20 years professional Director of Photography experience. He lived and worked in Vancouver, Canada in the TV & Film industry for 18 years. Moving to Sydney in 2017, Tobias is currently freelancing for the Australian TV & Film Industry, as a D.O.P and a carpenter tradesman.