Tiburon arts commission’s film screening to highlight challenges facing women in dance

Kathryn Roszak’s documentary ‘Women at the Top’ captures four women in dance who’ve ascended to the peak of their art, including Boston Ballet principal dancer Lia Cirio, seen here in a still from the film. A film screening, live dance performance and question-and-answer session with Roszak will take place 4-5:30 p.m. Sept. 29 at Tiburon Town Hall. (via Kathryn Roszak)

Kathryn Roszak, the artistic director of Sausalito-based dance company Danse Lumière, says she wants her company’s work to shine light on what’s been lost or undiscovered— in line with the French translation of her company’s name, “dance of light.”

That includes spotlighting some of the challenges she says women continue to face in dance and the arts, pointing to Chicago-based Dance Data Project reports that show only 29% of classically based dance companies have women in artistic-director roles.

Highlighting, amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in arts “who have made it in their field to the very top,” is the goal of “Women at the Top,” a documentary produced and directed this year by Roszak that will be screened Sept. 29 at Tiburon Town Hall. The free event, which runs 4-5:30 p.m., will kick off with an outdoor performance by Marin Dance Theatre youth performer Maggie Conklin, who will do a dance choreographed by Roszak to an excerpt from an adaptation of author and Belvedere resident Isabel Allende’s debut novel “The House of the Spirits.” Afterward, in council chambers, will be the screening and a question-and-answer session with Roszak.

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