Private Life Variations

Deborah Slater's work Private Life Variations explores the inner-landscapes of veterans after returning home from duty. The stunning composition was featured in both the SF Dance Film Festival in 2015 and the Tiny Dance Film Festival in 2016. It's a quick watch, but the ruminant images will stay with you.

producer/choreographer: Deborah Slater

performers: Private Freeman, Derek Harris, Kerry Mehling, Andrew Merrell

music: Bruno Louchouarn

cinematography: Lindsay Gauthier

edit: Loren Robertson

 

Yolande Snaith's Mapping Play

Yolande Snaith's Mapping Games Part 2: SOMA/LUX is a sensual and idiosyncratic work, in which performers, musicians, and lighting respond to one another in a sort of sensory play. What we see is an exquisite world of improvisation. Take a few minutes to watch... and respond to its stimulus!

Concept, Direction, and Costumes: Yolande Snaith

Performers: Angel Acuña, Anne Gehman, Andromeda Bradley, Gina Bolles Sorensen, Kyle Sorensen, Kris Apple

Music: Kris Apple and Andromeda Bradley

Production Design: Victoria Petrovich

Lighting Design: Omar Ramos

Breath Catalogue

Breath. It is movement. It is sound. It is subject. It is character. Watch this short video on Breath Catalogue, a lovely and ruminant piece choreographed and performed by Megan Nicely and Kate Elswit at the Firehouse, Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture in 2015.

Digital Interactions: Ben Gimpert

Music: Daniel Thomas Davis and Stephanie Griffin

Lighting Design: Allen Willner

Costumes: Megan Nicely

Cameras: Jenny Chu & Jacob Marks

Skywatchers: Community building with ABD Productions

Skywatchers is a community arts program conceived and directed by choreographer Anne Bluethenthal of ABD Productions, in which artist facilitators and Tenderloin residents co-create performance while discussing world events, forging relationships, and celebrating life. We are so grateful to have documented the Skywatchers events since its inception in 2011 and to produce this short documentary. Check it out, and get yourself on their contact list to be a part of this community!

Healthy Dancer Video Series

LRP produced these short, instructional, and adorable films conceived and directed by Kendall Alway, DPT of the ODC Healthy Dancers Clinic with Kimi Okada, the director of the ODC school. In three brief videos, the cuties from the ODC Dance Jam demonstrate some endlessly valuable tips to staying well. Take a few minutes out of your day... for your health!

Food + Rest = Energy

Expert exercises!

Top of your game alignment!

ODC/Dance highlights

In 2014, the LRP team captured ODC/Dance and collaborators' creation of a piece called Speaking Volumes, a site-specific dance on Alcatraz Island, as part of the Ai Weiwei exhibit @Large. Loren also captured and edited highlight videos for ODC's Invention of Wings and Dead Reckoning during their 2015 home season, Dance Downtown, at YBCA.

Watch and be reminded of this stalwart company's capacity for exquisite production and the dancers' ability to evoke humanity from the simplest to most full bodied movement!

Speaking Volumes (Alcatraz Island, part of Ai Weiwei exhibit - 2014):

Conceived and directed by Brenda Way in collaboration with KT Nelson, Kimi Okada, and RJ Muna.

Invention of Wings (Dance Downtown 2015):

Director: Brenda Way

Choreographers: Brenda Way & KT Nelson

Sound Score: Olafur Arnalds, Ben Frost, Ben Juodvalkis

Visuals: Ian Winters, RJ Muna

Light + Scenic Design: Matthew Antaky

Dead Reckoning (Dance Downtown 2015):

Choreography: KT Nelson

Commissioned Score + Cellist: Joan Jeanrenaud

Percussion: PC Munoz

Light + Scenic Design: Matthew Antaky

Costume Design + Production: Liz Brent

VIDF 2015

Loren had the privilege of joining the Nel Shelby Productions team once again at the Vail International Dance Festival this summer as editor and videographer.

Here are a few highlights that Loren edited (and helped document)...

Highlights from one of the shows "International Evening of Dance":

Bill Irwin!!! (remember Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street?!) with Memphis Jookers:

Interesting insight into Balanchine's "Apollo" with Heather Watts, former NYC Ballet principal dancer who worked with Balanchine:

What's the 211?

Both movement and performance in Ingrid Graham's dance film "211" are exacting and yet tender. In just a few short minutes, the choreography and imagery speak of such human themes as duality, relationship, and struggle with some lovely dancing to boot! See for yourself!

Director, Producer & Choreographer: Ingrid Graham

Dancers: Cassandra Naud & Gina Vidales

Cinematography & Editing: Loren Robertson Productions

Composer: Yaw Anoff

Music Production: Way Deep

Post:ballet's Sixth Season

New highlight video for Robert Dekker's Post Ballet! Their recent show "Six-Pack", presented at YBCA last month, was bursting with creative movement invention, captivating characterization, and wonderfully masterful dancing. We applaud these stellar artists!

https://vimeo.com/135388536

Music by Kodak to Graph

Dance for Every Child!

Longtime friend and colleague Nel Shelby of Nel Shelby Productions directed this new documentary: PS Dance, with Loren editing. It explores the holistic benefits of dance in the public school system, and it is bound to inspire, whether you are a dancer, educator, parent, or fellow human. Check it out on NYC's PBS Channel THIRTEEN and watch it streaming!

Produced and Directed by Nel Shelby

Photo credit: Christopher Duggan

Host: Paula Zahn

Consultant: Joan Finkelstein

Music Composition: Bob Novak & Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal

Funding: The Arnhold Foundation

Embodiment Project

Other than "WOW!", what can we say? Nicole Kalymoon's Embodiment Project has been making some serious waves in the Bay Area dance scene and beyond. Check out this video as a preview of what is to come from these fierce artists. And then get your butt to dance class!

Music: A Tribe Called Red "Ndn Stakes (feat. Sitting Bear)"

Videography: Rising Star Productions and Loren Robertson Productions

Edit: Loren R. Robertson

Artistic Director: Nicole Klaymoon

Musical Director: Valerie Trout

SAID SHE - Yolande Snaith

We've had the privilege of working with long-time University of California, San Diego dance professor Yolande Snaith over the past several years, in particular following the creation of her solo dance theatre work One Hundred Feet, a piece she made as she turned 50 years old.

LRP was commissioned to produce a short film about Yolande and the making of the work - a portrait of sorts. It's a beautiful ode to an accomplished choreographer/performer and holds the sentiments of all aging artists.

Worth a watch!

Choreography and Performance design: Yolande Snaith

Video Projection design: Natalia Valerdi

Lighting design: Wen-Ling Liao

Sound design: Nick Drashner