by Nel Shelby | Sep 28, 2016 | Dance Documentary, Dance Film
I am thrilled my documentary Where Women Don’t Dance, about award-winning dancer and choreographer Nejla Y. Yatkin, was selected to be screened at YoFi Fest 2016. This will be the first time our short documentary premieres in New York!! I hope you can all make it! The...
by Nel Shelby | Apr 28, 2016 | Dance Documentary, Dance Film
Fantastic news! Where Women Don’t Dance will be showing at Dance Place in Washington DC on April 30th and May 1st and Reston Center Stage in Virginia on May 4th! When we showed a preview screening of the film at Links Hall in Chicago last April, the film followed an...
by Nel Shelby | Jan 18, 2016 | Dance Documentary, Dance Film
Join us for a Lincoln Center screening of PS DANCE! February 13, 2016 at 11am at the Walter Reade Theater Tickets available here I am so honored that PS DANCE! – the documentary dance film I directed and produced with Jody Gottfried Arnhold and Joan Finkelstein...
by Nel Shelby | Jan 5, 2016 | Dance Documentary, Dance Film
Happy New Year!! For me, 2016 is starting off with a beautiful and moving story, gorgeous dancing, and total inspiration while I work on the beginnings of a new documentary film. I’m currently in Seattle, filming No Dominion, co-directed by Pacific Northwest...
by Nel Shelby | Nov 11, 2015 | Dance Documentary
The Power of a Rich Arts Education If you know me, you know that I believe wholeheartedly in the immense power of arts education – so you can imagine how excited I was when Harlem School of the Arts came to us to create a video for their 50th anniversary gala. I...
by Nel Shelby | Sep 24, 2015 | Dance Documentary, Dance Film
Wow!! We have a lot of great news to share about PS DANCE! Since it first aired on THIRTEEN in May, our documentary PS DANCE! has been watched well over 18,000 times! It recently aired in Rochester, New York, and will show on public television in eight more...
