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Video & dance lectures

Title: Video & dance lectures [videorecording] / presented by First Light Video Publishing ; Australian Film, Television & Radio School ; [documentary] directed by Kathryn Brown ; produced by Jason Wheatley.
Publication: Venice, Calif. : First Light Video Publishing [distributor], c1991-c1992.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (76 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

Compilation of two documentaries about the first national Dance Video Course given in Sydney, Australia. The two-week workshop, which was directed by Bob Lockyer assisted by Ross MacGibbon, brought together six choreographers, six directors, and eighteen dancers to explore choreography made specifically for the camera. (Full lists of workshop participants appear in the end credits.) Both documentaries include numerous excerpts of videodance works made during the course, as well as behind-the-scenes glimpses of the production process.

Series Statement

Master classes in the media arts

Alternative Title

Video dance
Video dance lectures

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Documentaries and factual films and programs.
Video.

Note

Title from cassette label.

Contents

Video dance (c1991; ca. 52 min.) / documentary editing, Lisa-Anne Morris; interviewees, Leigh Warren, Michelle Mahrer, Meryl Tankard, Bob Lockyer, Ruth Osborne, Tricia Canavan, Anne Greig, Philippe Charluet, Chris Lynch, Graeme Watson; choreographers whose works are represented include Nanette Hassall, Meryl Tankard, Ruth Osborne, Nina Veretennikova, Leonard Choice, Chris Lynch, Graeme Watson. Documentary about the workshop. Includes interviews in which participating directors and choreographers discuss the video excerpts shown, their concepts of videodance, new insights gained during the course, and their experiences in collaborating with one another.
The video dance lectures with Bob Lockyer: an overview (c1992; ca. 24 min.) / documentary editing, Kathryn Brown. Extracts from Bob Lockyer's lectures, illustrated by excerpts from videodance works by choreographers Ruth Osborne, Rosetta Cook, Graeme Watson, Meryl Tankard, and Chris Lynch, and directors Chris Lynch, Philippe Charluet, Michelle Mahrer, and Tricia Canavan. Lockyer's discussion topics include: How to begin: pre-planning; Camera scripting; Theatre-live action vs. recorded, edited version; Framing the shot; Rhythm and sizes of shot; A work in progress.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7292

OCLC

NYPY03-F623

Title

Video & dance lectures [videorecording] / presented by First Light Video Publishing ; Australian Film, Television & Radio School ; [documentary] directed by Kathryn Brown ; produced by Jason Wheatley.

Imprint

Venice, Calif. : First Light Video Publishing [distributor], c1991-c1992.

Country of Producing Entity

Australia.

Series

Master classes in the media arts

Local Subject

Videodance.

Added Author

Lockyer, Bob. Speaker. Interviewee

Warren, Leigh. Interviewee

Hassall, Nanette, choreographer.

Mahrer, Michelle. Director. Interviewee

Tankard, Meryl, choreographer. Interviewee

Canavan, Tricia. Director. Interviewee

Osborne, Ruth, choreographer. Interviewee

Greig, Anne. Director. Interviewee

Charluet, Philippe. Director. Interviewee

Veretennikova, Nina, choreographer.

Choice, Leonard, choreographer.

Lynch, Chris. drt, choreographer. Interviewee

Watson, Graeme, choreographer. Interviewee

Cook, Rosetta, choreographer.

Brown, Kathryn. Director. Film editor

Wheatley, Jason. Producer

Australian Film, Television & Radio School.

First Light Video Publishing.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7292

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