Motion State Arts

🎬 Hey dance filmmakers, get ready to submit your dance film for ScreenDance RoadShow’s ninth season!

🎬 Submissions open May 3; deadline is August 3, 2026: https://motionstatearts.org/call-for-films

🎬 ScreenDance RoadShow is the only traveling short dance film series in New England that showcases contemporary creative voices exploring choreography for the camera. Each season, a diverse program of dance films from around the world are screened at venues across the region.

🎬 We invite filmmakers to submit short films (15 minutes max) in which dance and cinematography play equal creative roles. We explore the ever-expanding definitions of "dance" and "choreography," and are open to including films that use adjacent technologies, such as animation, computer graphics and puppetry.

🎬 Season 9 venues will be announced soon. Past venues have included: Dean College (Franklin, MA); Jamestown Arts Center (Jamestown, RI); Myrtle (East Providence, RI); Newport Art Museum (Newport, RI); Providence Public Library; School for Contemporary Dance & Thought (Northampton, MA); The Redfern Arts Center (Keene, NH); Zeiterion Performing Arts Center (New Bedford, MA); and more.

Film still: Genevieve Shultz's "POP"

Big congrats to all the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows, with a special shout-out to Motion State Arts alums Molly Lieber, Raymond Pinto & Eleanor Smith!

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Announcing the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.

Live performance is a profound and glorious thing.

💸 But arts funding keep getting cut. 💸

Support from arts-loving people like you helps keep creativity alive and thriving.

We only need $1,895 more to reach our goal—your donation by 6pm ET can get us all the way there!

DONATE HERE by 6pm ET today: https://www.401gives.org/organizations/motion-state-arts

(And you don't even have to live in Rhode Island!)

Thanks in advance!



Image: Joanna Kotze & Stacy Matthew Spence in Spence's "I am here; Here with us; Where we find ourselves," 2026 Motion State Dance Festival. Photo: Domenik Lee