The Making of "Ghost Light" Episode 6 /

Episode 6 of 15 Days of Dance (in 20 hours) Emmy award winning producer Elliot Caplan served as filmmaker in residence at the Cunningham Dance Foundation from 1983 until January 1998, collaborating with Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the production of films and videos. Commissioned by Center fo...

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Format:
Elektronisch Film
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Picture Start Films, Inc., 2010.
Zusammenfassung:
Episode 6 of 15 Days of Dance (in 20 hours) Emmy award winning producer Elliot Caplan served as filmmaker in residence at the Cunningham Dance Foundation from 1983 until January 1998, collaborating with Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the production of films and videos. Commissioned by Center for the Moving Image, University at Buffalo, Brian Reeder's new work for the ABT Studio Company is a ballet for six dancers set to Music for the Theater by Aaron Copland and featuring costumes designed by Reeder. Caplan and his fellow cameraman caught the choreographic process at different angles, in varying light, in close up and in long shot. New York City peered through the room's large windows as they filmed, and inside a powerful intimacy reigned over the action. Caplan's idea was to establish with 15 Days of Dance a new standard of filmed dance preservation and at the same time to capture the choreographic process from the first step to its staged showing. While 15 Days of Dance is a document it is far more than that: it is an extended cinematic rumination on the making of art. Graciously, Reeder and the dancers allow us in to view their artistic process, a process closely guarded by most dance makers due, in part, to its intimacy but also due to its often discursive, improvisational nature. .
Umfang:
1 online resource (1 video file)
Zielpublikum:
9+.
Produktionsangaben:
Director, Elliot Caplan ; producer, Elliot Caplan ; choreographer, Brian Reeder.
ISBN:
9781350897472
DOI:
10.5040/9781350897472
Schlagworte:
Filmtography
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