d2d screendance workshops

FACULTY:

Cain DeVore is an actor, writer, producer, director and founding member of the Filmmakers Alliance. Cain's diverse acting credits stretch from Off-Broadway to soap operas to primetime television shows to independent films. His Off-Broadway and regional credits include: You've Gotta Sing for Your Supper, Mowgli, Romeo and Juliet, The Learned Ladies, Our Town, Antony and Cleopatra, The Hasty Heart, Room Service, The Royal Family, Macbeth, Look Homeward Angel and Hamlet. Cain served as a producer on the film Melancholy Baby and associate produced services on numerous short films, including 120 Volt Miracle, I Think You've Met My Wife, The Rest of My Life and Sand Trap. He also codirected the short documentary Pablo Ferro—Untitled, as well as producing and starring in the feature film Interstate 5. Cain wrote and directed the short film Mitzi & Joe —the first short to open a major United Kingdom festival.

Sarah Elgart:

 

Working under the auspice of Sarah Elgart | Arrogant Elbow, choreographer/director Sarah Elgart is active in “democratizing dance,” challenging the notion of what is and is not a stage, and placing dance in the foreground of community and commerce. She has been creating dance for stage, screen, and site-specific venues for many years, also working extensively with marginalized communities including transitional homeless women, recovering substance abusers, maximum-security women inmates, and others. Her choreography has been supported by organizations including the NEA, Rockefeller Foundation, Getty Arts, California Arts Council and LA Department of Cultural Affairs. Elgart’s large-scale site works engage audiences by transforming and catalyzing bus terminals, airports, museums, rooftops,and more with movement, media, and singular visual imagery, inviting viewers to see “old places with new eyes”. Her work has been presented at venues including Jacob’s Pillow, INSITU Site-Specific Festival in NYC, Dance Place (D.C.), MASS MoCA, LACMA, The Skirball Center, Cathedral Saint John the Divine (NY), Die Arc for the European Culture Capitol (Belgium), The Music Center, and an array of non-traditional performance sites including Los Angeles International Airport.  In film, Elgart has created choreography for iconic directors including JJ Abrams, David Lynch, Anton Corbijn, and Fredrik Bond, and her own films have received numerous awards and accolades including an Emmy nomination. Elgart’s critically acclaimed, site-specific short dance film “Ghost Story” blending contemporary and  street dance forms continues to tour internationally to festivals including Cannes FilmFestival’s Court Metrage, Berlin Fashion Film Festival, The Architecture & Design Film Festival in Athens, NY, Washington, D.C., and more.

 

An alum of the Sundance Institute Dance Film Lab and AFI’s Directing Women’s Workshop, in addition to directing Elgart worked with Dance Camera West Film Festival in various capacities for nearly seven years, and wrote a regular column on the intersections of dance and film called ScreenDance Diaries for the online magazine Cultural Daily. Sarah is the Founder and Executive Producer of Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival.