June 19, 2007

Metro DC Dance Awards Video - Finalist Announcement

This evening at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Dance/Metro DC announced the finalists for the 2007 Metro DC Dance Awards.

Here's printed version of the finalists.

I shot the following video of this event, which includes the announcements for each award category - click image to watch video::

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The Metro DC Dance Awards will take place Monday, September 10, 2007 at the Kennedy Center. Upcoming ticket information will be available from this Kennedy Center page.

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June 13, 2007

Joy of Motion's Doug Yeuell Video Interview

I recently conducted a video interview with Doug Yeuell who is the artistic and executive director of Washington-DC-based Joy of Motion Dance Center.

And Doug happens to be my first jazz instructor as you can tell from the opening of this video interview.

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During the interview, we discussed a wide-range of topics:

- Joy of Motion's four studios in DC area and their classes and performance offerings with a strong emphasis on adult students.

- Doug Yeuell's background with Joy of Motion, which goes back to 1982 when he first started teaching there.

- Doug's passion for teaching dance to adults.

- Why guys tend not to take modern/jazz/ballet as opposed to social dance classes.

- The "Helen" I refer to is Helen Hayes, who's my modern dance teacher. I'll soon be posting a video interview I did with Helen and one of her student's from her Youth Dance Ensemble Program. And,

- other topics about JOM and dance.

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May 29, 2007

Video Interview with Natalie Moffett Smith

On May 19th, I interviewed Natalie Moffett Smith, artistic director, DanceSmith, a Washington, DC-based contemporary ballet company. This interview was conducted during DanceSmith's 3-day performance series last week at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.

During the interview Natalie discusses her dance company and dance background, her approach to choreography and working with her dancers, the DC dance community and her involvement with the the Atlas.

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May 23, 2007

Video Interview with Peter DiMuro and Lucy Bowen McCauley

Right after the Sunday "Pas de Dirt" performance outside of the Building Museum in downtown Washington, DC, I interviewed Peter DiMuro, artistic director, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and Lucy Bowen McCauley, artistic director, Bowen McCauley Dance. (Watch excerpts from this performance).

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May 22, 2007

Video Excerpts from "Pas de Dirt"

This past Sunday dancers from Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and Bowen McCauley Dance performed the site-specific work Pas de Dirt outside of the Building Museum in downtown Washington, DC.

I've never seen dancers performing with Bobcat construction equipment before. To learn more read this Washington Post review, "Moving Earth & Heaven," by Sarah Kaufman.

The following video includes excerpts from this brief performance, which I shot and uploaded with the permission of Dance Exchange. Don't miss the finale with the synchronized Bobcats.

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After the performance, I did a video interview with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's Producing Artistic Director Peter DiMuro and Lucy Bowen McCauley, artistic director of Bowen McCauley Dance.

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May 18, 2007

Video Interview with Dana Tai Soon Burgess

I conducted a video interview with Dana Tai Soon Burgess Wednesday evening immediately following the performance of his dance company, Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co., in the Washington Performing Arts Society's "In The Works" program at the Atlas Performing Arts Center here in Washington, DC.

In this interview, Dana discusses his dance company's participation in the "In The Works" program, which gives artists an opportunity to discuss their work and answer audience questions in an informal studio setting. During the Wednesday performance, Dana's company showed excerpts from six works and a conversation with dance writer George Jackson followed each piece. (You can visit this link to read bios of the dancers).

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In addition, he shares his thoughts about the choreographic process, how he likes audiences to respond to his work and his dance background. He concludes this interview with the details about his company's international travels and Fall performance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

A Note About This Video

I'd like to thank Dana for participating in this first of what I hope are many video interviews with choreographers and dancers. He was kind enough to set aside time to conduct this interview even though he was traveling the next morning to Cairo, Egypt.

From an editing and production standpoint, I'll be doing a good amount of experimentation to figure out the best way to interview choreographers and dancers. So I definitely appreciate your feedback and suggestions. If you have thoughts about this new video interview series, please share them. My email address is: doug@greatdance.com.

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