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Dancehouse’s biennial festival of dance on screen from 10-12 July 2025 is back with an enthralling array of local, international, and historical screendance works.

For the 2025 Dance (Lens) Festival, experience three specially curated programs including a selection of shorts from the internationally-recognised Cinedans program; a session dedicated to the agency of the camera in The Camera Behaves curated by Siobhan Murphy; and a celebration of Victorian artists in ReelDance Retrospective curated by Erin Brannigan.

This year’s Official Selection program #1, #2 and #3 features 17 recent Australian screendance works from artists including: Colleen Coy, Efren Pamilacan, Gabriel Sinclair, Jo Pollitt, Joyce Liu, Jozsef Trefeli, Jude Walton, Lee Kien Fei, Mischa Baka, Outer Urban Projects, Tara Jade Samaya and Pippa Samaya, Rachel Coulson and Harrison Ritchie-Jones, Rebekah Stuart, Rhys Ryan, Sue Hawksley, and Yuiko Masukawa.

At 5.30pm, before each night’s screenings begin, join us for free IN FOCUS talks, performances, installations and discussions celebrating the works and practices of screendance artists, curators, and thinkers including Bronwen Kamasz, Jonathan Sinatra, Joshua Fale Faleatua, Erin Brannigan, Tony Yap and Michelle Heaven.

For makers, Dance (Lens) Festival also offers two special MASTERCLASSES with Takeshi Kondo and Darrin Verhagen to explore both practical and creative techniques, and approaches to enhance and expand your screendance making. All Masterclass registrations include full access to the rest of the Festival.

And if you miss a screening, catch-up with most of the program available digitally on demand after the Festival till 31 July.

The very affordable Dance (Lens) Festival Pass grants access to ALL screening sessions and talks at Dancehouse. Yes — that’s your choice of screenings and events over four wintery nights.

Dance (Lens) Festival 2025

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