How the Festival Works
Screening Sessions
The Screendance Workshop
Screening Sessions
Official Selections are curated into screening sessions that run sixty to ninety minutes. Stay and watch the whole session. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
Q&A and Awards
The Screendance Workshop
Screening Sessions
At the end of each session the audience votes on its favorite film while the filmmakers take questions. Once the votes are tallied, the adjudicated and audience choice awards for that session are announced.
The Screendance Workshop
The Screendance Workshop
The Screendance Workshop
A two-hour Screendance Filmmaking workshop taught by guest film and dance artists, open to all festival attendees. Sessions combine lectures, discussion, creative writing, film viewing, and sharing short compositions.
The 2026 Festival
Day One: Wednesday, July 15
At The Flicks in Boise. Screening 1 at 4:15 p.m., youth, teen, college, pre-professional and professional dance film shorts. Screening 2 at 5:45 p.m., professional dance documentary films. Screening 3 at 7:10 p.m., top professional dance film shorts. Screening 4 at 9:20 p.m., the dance documentary The Alchemist's Dance. Every session closed with a filmmaker Q&A and awards.
Day Two: Thursday, July 16
At Idaho Fine Arts Academy in Meridian. The Screendance filmmaking workshop ran from 10 a.m. to noon, followed by a Brown Bag Dance Filmmaker Mingle at noon, a shorts screening at 1 p.m., and a dance documentary marathon from 2:30 to 8 p.m. Free and open to all.