February 25, 2007

Now Conducting Interviews with Dance Companies and Dance Videographers

As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm writing a publication about dance, video and the Internet. You can visit the following page for "dance video book" to read 17 articles I've written since December about this topic.

In these video-focused posts, I offer many suggestions for how dance videos can be put to work for marketing, revenue-generation, educational, creative, fundraising and other purposes.

But for dancers and dance companies to take advantage of these many opportunities, they first need good quality dance videos.

So the first section of this publication will be devoted to what it takes to produce top-notch dance videos.

To research this section, I am now conducting interviews with dance companies, dance videographers and others with expertise in any and all aspects of producing videos.

If you have experience and expertise in this area or have suggestions for people I should interview, please send me an email.

I'm especially interested in conducting interviews with dancers and dance videographers in the Washington, DC or New York City areas. This way I can conduct interviews face-to-face and also see examples of how dance videos are produced in pre-production, production and post-production stages. But at the same time, don't hesitate to contact me if you are not in DC or NYC.

While the primary focus of this section is on video of dance performances, there are a number of other types of dance-related videos that you may want to create. So this chapter will also provide coverage of how to produce vides of and for:

- Interviews (with choreographers and dancers, for example)

- Rehearsals

- Promotional trailers

- Marketing and publicity

- Dance instruction

- Documentaries

- Archival and documentation

- Auditions

- Fundraising

- Websites, blogs and video sharing sites, and

- Mobile and wireless devices

I look forward to the thoughts and suggestions of readers.

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