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Multi-camera Direction - Archival Documentation - Restaging Dance for the Camera |
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Contract services for television stations and production companies, dance
companies, agencts and presenters,
choreographers and dancers. Producing, directing, shooting and editing existing choreography and improvisation. Producing promotional and excerpt tapes combining perfomances, rehearsals, interviews and process footage to accompany grant proposals and press packages. Single and multiple camera documentation of concerts
and dress rehearsals. |
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Credits (L-R)
Iwona Olszowska
Nejla Yatkin
Molissa Fenley
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Maida Withers Dance Construction Company
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The first collaboration with Maida Withers was Laser Dance presented by District Curators at Lisner Auditorium in 1985 with lasers by Rockne Krebs and music by Bob Boilen. Dress rehearsals and performances were filmed with two cameras in 16mm and edited into
a 20 minute distillation piece. Since then numerous collaborations were produced including Dance of the Auroras nominated for a Rosebud Award, multi-camera tapings of Suite Elvis and State of the Art for "Metro Dance/Arts," Ledge funded by Appalshop, and live feed for the DC Improv Festival at George Washington University.
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Maida Withers Dance
Construction Company
Laser Dance and Aurora 2001
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Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
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Productions include multi-camera concert tapings at the University of Maryland, Shakespeare Theater and Lisner Auditorum in Washington, DC; "Moving Jewish Communities" CINE Gold Eagle winning documentary funded by the Righteous Persons Foundation; "Mission:
Mall/Mall" at the Hirshhorn Museum; and projection roll-ins for performances. Most recent project is a two year partnership with the Library of Congress. |
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Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
Fifty Modest Reflections on
Turning 50
Gates of Praise -- Hallelujia
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| Min Tanaka |
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Videography for two performances with Min Tanaka & Company of Japan on the
rooftop of PS1 in New York in the first of a ten year engagement, and an
improvisational performance by Min Tanaka and Meredith Monk at PS 122 in New York. Both performances were taped for the documentary "Min Tanaka Moving Man" by Charles Steiner.
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Min Tanaka and Company |
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| Air Dance Bernasconi |
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Air Dance Bernasconi is a low-flying trapeze and aerial dance company founded in 2001 by Jayne Bernasconi of Baltimore, Maryland.
Productions include "Air Dance" taped during an improvisational warm-up before the companies evening
performance at Towson University in Maryland. A five minute edited piece was screened at the 2002 Aerial Dance
Festival in Boulder, Colorado, and the IMZ Dancescreen 2002. Taped hand held with single camera the footage was edited to convey the play between feelings of weight and weightlessness.
"Space Craft" was taped at the Baltimore Museum of Art during a dress rehearsal. Concert performances, tech process and interview material was combined for a ten minute promotional tape.
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Air Dance Bernasconi,
Air Dance and Air Craft |
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Metro Dance/Arts
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A series of 60 half hour programs produced between 1985 - 1990 cablecast on Channel 10 in Fairfax, Virginia. Winner of 5 consecutive 1st place awards from National Association of Local Cable Programmers. (NFLCP) Live cut during performances for the camera with
lighting cues and invited audience using four Ikegami cameras and mobile production van at numerous Washington, D.C. area theaters. Choreographers include Jack Guidone and Michelle Ava, Alcine Wiltz, Jan Van Dyke, Miram Rosen, Alvin Mayes, Carla Perlo, Deborah Riley & Diane Frank, Adrian Bolton, and Rebecca Kelly Dance
Company.
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Carla Perlo, Flight of Time
Ajax Joe Drayton,
The Big Stick
Deborah Riley & Diane Frank,
Curl
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