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Idaho Screendance Festival A community event promoting dance and film arts. Festival combines choreographic and film/video prac

We are so excited to host. 💛Idaho Fine Arts Academy is proud to welcome the Idaho Dance Education Organization for the 1...
10/01/2026

We are so excited to host. 💛

Idaho Fine Arts Academy is proud to welcome the Idaho Dance Education Organization for the 10th Annual Conference and State High School Dance Festival, “Building Dance Literacy,” this Friday and Saturday, October 2 and 3.

A few things to know before you arrive:

There is plenty of parking in the lot at the front of the building. You will see the registration table as soon as you walk in, so please stop and check in with us first.

915 E Central Dr, Meridian, ID 83642

It is going to be a wonderful day and a half of keynotes, master classes, breakout sessions, and performance. We cannot wait to have the Idaho dance community in our building.

See you soon. 💃

09/30/2026

We are thrilled to welcome keynote speaker Leslie Kraus, Artistic Director of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, for two days of movement sessions, breakout workshops, and a performance. The weekend closes with a Ririe-Woodbury concert on Saturday night at the Centennial Performing Arts Center.

Open to dance educators, dance artists, college students, and high school dancers. Conference registration and RW concert tickets are available online at idahodeo.org/events

09/30/2026

Schedule update. 📌

Fourteen sessions across three time slots.

Session 1 | 10:45 AM to 12:00 PM
Fuse Jazz Dance Class with Shannon Keightley
Musical Theatre Dance: Audition Prep with Cait Deely
Contemporary Dance Class with Kylee Killian
Building Ballet Literacy with Thom Dancy
Flamenco Dance with Kelli Brown

Session 2 | 1:00 to 2:15 PM
Viewpoints Improvisation Class with Yurek Hansen
Discovering Expression of Inner Self Through Improvisation with Alina Steichen
Contemporary Ballet Technique with Marla Brattain Hansen
Master Class with Leslie Kraus
Language of Dance in the Classroom with Crystal Bain

Session 3 | 4:00 to 5:30 PM
Pilates Conditioning for Life with Hilarie Neely
Project Flux Master Class with Lydia Sakolsky-Basquill
Sculpting the Moment with Melanie Meenan
The Tap Dance Method: Creativity in Tap with Andrew Nemr
Embodied Neurodiversity: Inclusive Dance Spaces with Amber Hongsermeier

Sessions are marked for high school dancers or adult learners. Pick one per slot. Full descriptions and registration at idahodeo.org.

🏆 2026 AWARD WINNERS 🏆Our adjudicators have spoken! Congratulations to the films honored at the 2026 Idaho Screendance F...
07/24/2026

🏆 2026 AWARD WINNERS 🏆

Our adjudicators have spoken! Congratulations to the films honored at the 2026 Idaho Screendance Festival, representing artistry from Idaho to Russia, Belgium to the United Kingdom.

CATEGORY AWARDS
🥇 Best Youth Screendance: Whirling Woods (IFAA) 🇺🇸
🥇 Best Teen Screendance: Strangers 🇺🇸
🥇 Best University Screendance: No.1614 🇬🇧
🥇 Best Pre-Professional Screendance: Yours, Tenderly 🇺🇸
🥇 Best Professional Screendance: Landscape Painting 🇺🇸
🥇 Best Professional Dance Documentary: Anchor Points 🇨🇦

SYRINGA AWARDS 🌸
Honoring the best of Idaho screendance
🏅 Best Idaho Professional Screendance: Fever
🏅 Best Idaho Professional Dance Documentary: Upstanders with Open Arms

CRAFT AWARDS
🎬 Best Directing: TEM PO RA RY 🇷🇺
💃 Best Choreography for the Lens: Landscape Painting 🇺🇸
📷 Best Cinematography: Monarch Migration 🇺🇸
✂️ Best Editing: Don’t Say My Name 🇬🇧
🔊 Best Sound Design: CENTRUM 🇧🇪
👗 Best Costume Design: TEM PO RA RY 🇷🇺
⭐ Best Performance: Snapshot 🇬🇧
⏱️ Best Pacing: Ce qui nous lie 🇫🇷

Congratulations to every honoree, and thank you to all the filmmakers who trusted us with your work this year. 💛

🏆 AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS 🏆These winners were chosen by you. Every ballot cast in a darkened theatre, every film that sta...
07/24/2026

🏆 AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS 🏆

These winners were chosen by you. Every ballot cast in a darkened theatre, every film that stayed with you on the drive home. Congratulations to our 2026 Audience Choice winners!

🎥 Screening One
Monarch Migration 🇺🇸

🎥 Screening Two
Upstanders with Open Arms 🇺🇸

🎥 Screening Three
Wonder of Hope 🇺🇸

🎥 July 16 Shorts
Silent Divide 🇺🇸

🎞️ July 16 Documentary Marathon
Blind Date 🇺🇸

There is nothing quite like watching a room full of people fall for a film in real time. Thank you for voting, and congratulations to these five filmmakers on an honor that came straight from the audience. 💛

💛 THANK YOU, BOISE! 💛The 2026 Idaho Screendance Festival wrapped last week, and our hearts are still full.To everyone wh...
07/24/2026

💛 THANK YOU, BOISE! 💛

The 2026 Idaho Screendance Festival wrapped last week, and our hearts are still full.

To everyone who came out: thank you for filling those seats, for staying for the Q&As, for laughing and gasping and sitting with the quiet moments. You made these films feel alive in the room.

To The Flicks: thank you for opening your beautiful theatre to us. There is no better place in Boise to watch dance on the big screen, and your team made every screening run beautifully.

To the Idaho Dance Education Organization: thank you for sponsoring this festival and for your ongoing belief that dance belongs on screen, in classrooms, and in our community. None of this happens without you.

And to the filmmakers who trusted us with your work, from Idaho to Ireland, Morocco to Montréal, thank you for sending your art across the world to a theatre in Boise.

Until next year. 🎬✨

🕙 10 AM to Noon — Screendance Workshop. Learn to make dance for the camera, all experience levels welcome.🥪 Noon to 1 PM...
07/16/2026

🕙 10 AM to Noon — Screendance Workshop. Learn to make dance for the camera, all experience levels welcome.
🥪 Noon to 1 PM — Brown Bag & Filmmaker Mingle. Bring your lunch, meet the artists.
🎥 1:00 PM — Dance film shorts
🎞️ 2:30 to 8:00 PM — Documentary marathon

Films from Ireland, Morocco, Canada, Scotland, Utah, Montana and beyond.

📍 Idaho Fine Arts Academy, Meridian
🎟️ Free and open to everyone

Come for an hour or stay all day. 💫

🔗 www.idahoscreendance.com

🍿 TONIGHT. 🍿You know the sign. You know the popcorn. Tonight, The Flicks fills with dance from around the world.The Idah...
07/15/2026

🍿 TONIGHT. 🍿

You know the sign. You know the popcorn. Tonight, The Flicks fills with dance from around the world.

The Idaho Screendance Festival takes over downtown Boise with four screening blocks, filmmaker Q&As, and films from Montana to Morocco, Ireland to Saint Petersburg.

🕓 Screenings 4 PM to 11 PM
📍 The Flicks, Downtown Boise
🎟️ Completely free

Come for one film or stay all night. We’ll see you in the dark. 💫

🔗 www.idahoscreendance.com

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