Re- Constructing the Dancing Body: Screen Dance & the ever fluid definition of Place & Time
enCore: Dance on Film features short movies by dance filmmakers from around the world. These screenings are free and open to the public. Screened annually since 2014, enCore: Dance on Film presents a selection of fascinating independent Screen Dance productions and serves as a platform for films which picture dance exclusively for, and with, the camera. Focusing on the interplay between dance and the techniques of filmmaking, enCore: Dance on Film explores the possibilities and boundaries of Screen Dance as an art form.
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Showcasing annually since 2014, for enCore: Dance on Film 2026, 73 submissions were received from 24 different countries with 14 final selections.​
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This year's enCore: Dance on Film 2026 will be streamed on our windows in Decatur Square and Core Dance’s Vimeo site from May 1st, 2026 to August 31st, 2026.
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enCore: Dance on Film 2026 premiered in person on June 2, 2026 at the Core Dance Decatur studio.
enCore: Dance on Film 2026
Filmmaker: Claire Marshall
Film: "FRAMES"
enCore: Dance on Film 2026
Congratulations to the Official Selections for enCore: Dance on Film 2026, presented by Core Dance.​​
We celebrate the artists whose work was selected and extend our gratitude to all who submitted.
Presenting the enCore: Dance on Film
Previous Selections
How to apply to enCore : Dance on Film 2027
Applications will be through Film Freeway.
10/1/2026 - Submissions open
2/28/2027 - Submissions close
4/1/2027 - Filmmakers notified
5/1/2027 - enCore: Dance on Film Premiere (Live Screening/Opening Reception)
Films run from May 1, 2027 through August 31, 2027 as window installation and online as chapters.
Meet the 2026 Adjudicators
Christian Meyer
Christian Meyer is a Berlin based composer and musician working across film, television, commercials, dance theatre and theatre. His work combines cinematic scoring, contemporary sound design and emotionally driven storytelling. His film, commercial and dance theatre work has been recognised internationally. Alongside his musical practice, he works as a visual artist in photography, moving image and dream based conceptual projects.
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Amanda K. Miller
Amanda K. Miller was founder, Artistic Director, and choreographer of Pretty Ugly Dance Company from 1992 until 2009. Based in Germany, Pretty Ugly toured internationally and won an array of awards and acclaim for unique artistic and social collaborations. Yummy Dance an improvisational and multi-disciplinary dance company in Matsuyama, Japan she pioneered in
2000.
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Prior to starting Pretty Ugly Amanda was a member and resident choreographer of Ballett Frankfurt under the direction of William Forsythe from 1984 to 1992.She met Forsythe at Deutsche Opera Berlin where she danced 1979-1981.
Miller has continuously explored the avant-garde intersections of music, visual arts, film, and movement.
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In 2009, Miller returned home to North Carolina where she holds interdisciplinary movement workshops. She shares her skills as a freelance choreographer, dance educator, and performer with dance companies, universities, regional colleges, community institutions, and private dance studios. Her creative process, amanda science cultivates works, experiences, and investigations that champion inclusiveness in any environment, whether leading expressive art projects to champion all ages or facilitating collaborations with professional artists.
Newly developed workshops are Imaginative Series/Landscape of Embodiment an instructional toolbox for improvisation and Times Arrow.
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Amanda is an alumnus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and received her M.F.A.at Hollins University in 2017. Since 2021 she has been a caregiver for individuals living with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and practices Reiki.
Deane McQueen
The houdini club has a membership of one, created and donated by French surrealist Allain Prillard who recognised them in a past life. the houdini club is a neon sign active when lit. the houdini club thinks, collaborates, makes, shares, exits, panics, disappears and returns. Escapes completed, yet to be achieved. Recorded details in misplaced notebooks never found. No archive. No social media. Present. Live. the houdini club is about connections and relationships, severing, rupturing and sometime continuity. The artist does not wish to be seen, not recognised. Absent.
Negar Tahsili
Negar Tahsili is an inventor, multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and researcher whose practice spans film, performance and visual arts. She directs documentary and experimental films, develops exhibition-based projects, and employs curatorial practice as an artistic medium, transforming exhibitions and festivals into artworks in their own right.
Her research and artistic work explore themes of cloning, displacement, identity, and cultural memory. Tahsili has presented exhibitions internationally, while her documentary films, focusing on culture, art, and dance, have been screened at film festivals worldwide and broadcast by international networks, including Arte. Her practice is defined by a rigorous engagement with the camera not merely as a recording device but as a choreographic presence, a collaborator that shapes, frames, and reanimates the body in motion.
She holds a PhD in Performing Arts from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Her research bridges film, performance, and visual culture, with a particular focus on representation and gender. She is currently completing a book on the representation of women in Iranian cinema.