NOMAD: The Blue Road

We had the honor of documenting Dance Monks' NOMAD: The Blue Road, a site specific performance ritual journey that followed the path of Strawberry Creek in Berkeley, CA, which is now mostly underground. With renowned local and international artists, it was a beautiful response to California's current drought and water crisis as they invited the audience to walk in remembrance of our vital and absolutely necessary relationship to water - something we often forget.

Take a look into this journey!

Collaborating Artists: DANCE MONKS (Rodrigo Esteva, Sebastian Esteva & Mirah Moriarty), NAKA Dance Theater (Jose Navarrete, Debby Kajiyama and Kevin O’Connor), PURI Project (Dohee Lee & Adria Otte), Jennifer Curtis and Pauchi Sasaki.

International Guest Dancers: Cristina Lopez, Veronica Santiago, and Manuel Fajardo

Community Performers: Marielle Amrhein, Wei-Shan Lai, Christine Beggs, Sophie Stanley, Erica Weems, Utam Moses, Ruth Kaplan, Kiplinn Sagmiller, Victoria Ayres, Todd Brown and Melanie Cutchon.

Musicians: Dohee Lee, Pauchi Sasaki, Jennifer Curtis and Adria Otte.

Pointing Twice

We enjoyed capturing a one time performance at YBCA in San Francisco of this unique music/dance collaborative performance by Polish composer Jaroslaw Kapuscinski with Korean guest choreographer Young-Doo Jung and Canadian instrument designer John Granzow, who custom-built a gramophone for the piece! The piece is inspired by Anton Webern’s 1934 masterwork Concerto for Nine Instruments and features San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and conductor Steven Schick.

Check out the highlights:

 

Push Dance Company and the Shipyard Project

Captured some of PUSH Dance and their collaboration with the 3rd Street Youth Center to continue exposing and unpacking environmental and health issues for Hunters Bay Point and its Naval Shipyard - specifically from the perspective of it's youth. This is important for all San Franciscans to know about and listen to!

Check out the short documentary "Leftover from the Last":

And we're excited to capture their upcoming performance of Point Shipyard Project this coming weekend at the Museum of African Diaspora - MORE INFO HERE

SOIL - Randee Paufve

  As the sun sets over the El Cerrito hills...

Check out a yummy highlight reel from a 2-camera shoot of Paufve|dance - gorgeous solo work of Randee Paufve, featuring choreography by  Gregg Bielemeier, Della Davidson, Randee Paufve and Kate Weare:

 

Cameras: Nicole Fuentez, Loren R. Robertson

Image: Pak Han

Sizzle Reels for Dance Pieces

I love putting together 1min (or so) edits of dance works that companies can use as a "sizzle reel" for their own marketing - it's the best way to download the essence of a piece quickly online (which is really the only way people watch dance/anything on the internet...quickly and on to the next).  Here's an example of one of Post:Ballet's premieres from their home season at YBCA a few months ago called Colouring.  

camera: Nicole Fuentez; editing: Loren R. Robertson

Vail International Dance Festival with NSP

I have had the privilege for the last 3 summers to work with Nel Shelby Productions on capturing this unique dance festival in Vail, CO. After each show (documented with multiple cameras), we edit a little web video to post the next day to keep the energy of the festival going online - it's really satisfying to help produce this work with such fast turn around - almost instant gratification!Here are a few picks from this year 2013:

A montage of work from International Evenings, to give an overall feel:

Ballet star, Tiler Peck, featured with Lil' Buck and Sergei Polunin in the same program!:

One of the outdoor community events - LOVE working with images of kids!:

 

For more videos, check out LRRP's facebook page

ODC Dance - "Lifesaving Maneuvers"

A great example of a simple edit of highlights for presenters and grants!

Choreography: Brenda Way Commissioned Score: Jay Cloidt Lighting and Scenic Design: Alexander V. Nichols Costumes: Way + Liz Brent