Company D (2023)
A Dog Bark Media Production
Documentary | 1h 30 min | 2023 | HD/4K
Interviews with Dissonance Dance Theatre dancers, artists, and supporters share their stories and happy sentiments of the man who changed their lives as Dissonance Dance Theatre prepares for their Diaspora production.
A small-but-mighty Washington, DC dance company, becomes the place for dancers to fulfill their dance careers, under the contemporary ballet vision of Black choreography/visionary Shawn Short.
Ngoma Film Works
Launched in the Summer of 2020 in partnership with Dog Bark Media (a DC-based media company), Ngoma Film Works (NFW) is a program that highlights urban and classic society, human relationships, cultural history, and “visual-choreo” art through documentaries and narrative film.
Created to further Ngoma’s ability to enlighten artists through creative innovation, expand its audience viewership and build new video and visual artist relationships for future collaboration Ngoma Film Works furthers Ngoma’s mission of community integration, inspirational performance, and artistic development.
Goals of the Program:
1. Create original stories that further the field of dance.
2. Push creative innovation that celebrates the African-American experience.
3. Pose questions through narrative film, to engage and inspire.