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Artistic director of Dance Films Association
(DFA), has been editing the Dance on Camera Journal for DFA
since 1982. She began directing the Dance on Camera Festival
in 1995 and became the director of DFA in 1998.
She has written for over twenty publications on the subject
of dance on camera and flamenco, served on the juries of Dance
Screen, Grand Prix de Video Danse, International Emmys, and
American Dance Festival, and worked on multiple films about
music produced by Peter Rosen. As a dancer, she has performed
at a wide variety of venues including the Rainbow Room, The
Plaza, le Cirque and most recently The Leonard Nimoy Thalia
at Peter Norton Symphony Space. She taught a flamenco history
course for six summers in Sante Fe for Maria Benitez' Institute
of Spanish Arts which also co-produced her participatory production
of "Dancing with Bulls." A graduate of Kirkland/Hamilton
College with a masters in arts administration from NYU, Deirdre
also spent an invaluable semester studying dance and drumming
in Ghana through the Experiment in International living.
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