Creating Physical Theater: The Body in Performance - Part 1
This video features interviews, live footage, and workshops with such leading physical theater companies as Stan Won't Dance and Forced Entertainment. Presents ideas, strategies, and methods for adding physical dimensions to performance. It traces t...
Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter
Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter tells the inspiring and largely unknown story of a woman whose life was defined by her love for dance. Martha Hill emerges as dance's secret weapon, someone who fought against great odds to establish dance as a legitim...
Choreographer Margaret Jenkins: Dancing on the Edge of Success
Margaret Jenkins, Artistic Director of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, is one of the most respected postmodern choreographers in America having twice been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship; also an Irvine Fellowship, the San Francisco Arts Commiss...
Standing at the Edge, We Dance
A personal documentary on the challenging life and career of Joan Myers Brown, whose fierce vision has forged a path for Philadanco, the Philadelphia-based dance company she founded and has directed for the past forty years.
Creating Physical Theater: The Body in Performance - Part 2
This video features interviews, live footage, and workshops with such leading physical theater companies as Stan Won't Dance and Forced Entertainment. Presents ideas, strategies, and methods for adding physical dimensions to performance. It traces t...
Moments in Motion/Au fil du mouvement
Seven short profiles of Canadian choreographers, each powerful voices from the new generation: Natasha Bakht from Ottawa, Byron Chief-Moon from Lethbridge, Day Helesic from Vancouver, Hinda Essadiqi and Audrey Lehouillier, both from Montreal, Malgor...
The Greater The Weight
In The Greater The Weight, dancer and choreographer Dana Michel assembles extremely physical movement - a remnant from her previous training in track and touch football — with mathematical precision and poetic improvisation. The result is an explo...
Prey: An Innovation in Dance Documentation Enhanced Process-Based Instruction
This program looks at Bebe Miller’s choreographic process and her finished piece, Prey. The video includes text, photographs, articles, and a Labanotation presentation and offers footage of instances in the score, contextual information, and an ed...
Dancing on the Edge: Volume 1
This set highlights experimental performances by the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Ballet du Lac Tumba, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Claude Brumachon, the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Chuck Davis’s African-American Dance Ensemble, the Gu...
Dancing on the Edge: Volume 2
This set highlights experimental performances by the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Ballet du Lac Tumba, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Claude Brumachon, the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Chuck Davis’s African-American Dance Ensemble, the Gu...