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Juan A . Barrera
3352 Crescent Street Suite 9A
Astoria, NY 11106
Phone: (917) 544-0396
email: mmcbr21400@aol.com

Juan A. Barrera has been a videographer for many award-winning Dance In America shows from Balanchine and Baryshnikov to Garth Fagan. He frequently works as a video/archivist for the New York Public Library's Dance Collection.


John Bishop
8378 Faust Avenue
West Hills, CA 91304
Phone: (310) 206-8011
email: jbishop@ucla.edu
website: www.cda.ucla.edu/faculty/bishop

John Bishop is a filmmaker, editor and producer of documentaries on cultural and anthropological subjects. He has made films on Cambodian court dance, New England fiddle and dance traditions, the blues, Islamic observance in Trinidad, and a Mimalayan village. Mr. Bishop teaches video to dancers and choreographers in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.


Skip Blumberg
In Motion Productions
373 Broadway, #E3
New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 431-8480

A videographer and television director, Skip Blumberg has been involved with many video projects. He has worked with such television shows as Dance in America, Alive TV, and Weekend TV. His experience with dance documentation includes work with Maia Claire Garrison, Keith Terry, Bill Irwin, and the Rix Family Dancing Bears.


Virginia Brooks
460 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (718) 951-5665
email: vlbrooks@aol.com

Virginia Brooks is an editor for the Balanchine Foundation's two preservation projects, the Interpreters Archive and the Archive of Lost Choreography. Brooks is also a filmmaker and videographer for the School of American Ballet since 1973, and co-directed the award-winning documentary Charles Weidman: On His Own.


Jim Browder
775 Sudden Valley
Bellingham, WA 98226
Phone: (360) 671-1212

Jim Browder is a videographer, producer, director and writer who has worked extensively in dance documentation.


Elliot Caplan
417 Grand Street, #404
New York, NY 10002
Phone: (212) 255-3130 ext. 28
email: picturestart@compuserve.com

Elliot Caplan is an independent filmmaker and videographer, as well as the Filmmaker-in-Residence for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He has produced, directed, photographed, edited and designed a variety of dance programming, including eduational, documentary and made for camera.


Bill Charette
22 Boynton Street
Lynn, MA 01904
Phone: (781) 599-8452
email: dpBill@gis.net

Bill Charette is a videographer with many years of experience in national broadcast television, having been associated with WGBH in Boston since 1970. Charette has also documented performances of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Wang Center in Boston for the New York Public Library Dance Collection.


Marilyn Cristofori and Greg Lizenbery
2101 Nuuanu, #904
Honolulu, HI 96817
Phone: (808) 956-2464
email: haae@aloha.net ; lgreg@hawaii.edu

As executive producers of video documentaries, Marilyn Cristofori and Greg Lizenbery have been involved with many films. Their credits include: Hanya Holm: Portrait of a Pioneer, which won Best of Festival and Best Documentary awards from Dance on Camera 1985; Donald McKayle: Games, Rainbow, Other Dances, filmed for the Samuel Scripps/American Dance Festival Awards 1992; and Heartbeats of a Dancemaker, which is currently in production.


Charles Dennis
360 Clinton Avenue, Apt. 5F
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Phone:(718) 398-8422
email: chasdennis@aol.com

Charles Dennis is the director / producer of Alive and Kicking, a documentary series spotlighting individual dance and performance artists. He received an 1999 NIPAD-UCLA Fellowship grant to direct a one-hour documentary about 20 years of new dance work at Perfomance Space 122 in New York. Dennis specializes in low-cost, 2 to 3 camera documentation with live or post-production mixing.


Dennis Diamond
29 W. 21st Street
New York, NY 10010-6808
Phone: (212) 242-3345
email: dennis.video@worldnet.att.net

Dennis Diamond instituted the Archival Project for Dance Theater Workshop in 1977. Though he no longer archives dance, Mr. Diamond continues to produce and direct video promotionals, documentaries and video walls.


Charles S. Dubin
651 Lorna Lane
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Phone: (310) 472-2684
email: lulu1A@aol.com

Charles Dubin is a filmmaker who has directed most of Agnes DeMille's dances for TV. He has also directed television productions of 4 George Balanchine dances, and Pearl Lang's work for Omnibus, as well as all of Bella Lewitsky's dances for the New York Public Library.


Johannes Holub
739 W. 186th Street, #6H
New York, NY 10033
Phone: (212) 781-1982
email: holubvideo@earthlink.net

Johannes Holub is a videographer who has more than 25 years of experience specializing in performance documentation. He has experience as a director and editor of live performance, multi-camera productions, and has been commissioned by the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library. From 1984-87 he was the director of the archive project at American Dance Festival.


Sam Kanter
221 East 32nd Street
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 684-3304
email: skanter@nyc.rr.com

Sam Kanter has been documenting dance since 1980, having received 4 dance/video and inter-arts grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been shown all over the US and Europe, including PBS Television. Mr. Kanter is the director of Video Arts, a video production facility in New York City which specializes in creative productions for artists.


Joan Logue
130 W. 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 255-7402
email: portrait@interport.net

Joan Logue has been the production director and portrait editor for projects involving Samone Forte, Lucinda Childs, Anna Halprin, Arnie Zane/Bill T. Jones, Pina Berusch, Mohawk Singers & Dancers, Kamala Cesar, and many others.


Niels Melo
PO Box 1116
Belmont, CA 94002
Phone: (650) 345-0505
email: telepros@flash.net
website: www.flash.net/~telepros

Niels Melo is a videographer, director and editor of dance films and videos for television and dance archives such as the New York Public Library. He has more than 25 years of experience working with companies including: San Francisco Ballet; American Ballet Theatre; Dance Theatre of Harlem; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre; and the White Oak Dance Project.


Jay Millard
31 Buttonwood Lane
Darien, CT 06820
Phone: (917) 327-5440
email: millardj@earthlink.net
website:home.earthlink.net/~millardj/resume1.html

Jay Millard is a videographer who has filmed more than 200 hours of dance performances for the New York Public Library Dance Collection. He has been honored by the Directors Guild of America and with Emmy awards and nominations.


Bridget Murnane
375 Mt. Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 491-3264
email: bamurnane@mediaone.net
website: bampro.com

Bridget Murnane has produced, directed and edited several dance films, and offers media services to choreographers.


Mamadou Niang
113 S. Oxford Street
New York, NY 11217
Phone: (212) 581-1771
email: mniang@pipeline.com

Mamadou Niang is a television producer, writer and director who specializes in videotaping African dance.


Patrick O'Donnell
2641 Washington Mill Road
Bellbrook, OH 45305
Phone: (937) 848-6199
email: odonnell@donet.com

Patrick O'Donnell is the producer of the nationally-broadcast documentary about Josephine and Hermene Schwartz. He runs a production and post-production facility offering discounted rates for non-profit arts organizations.


Dave Olive
3004 Aquilla
Tampa, FL 33629
Phone: (813) 251-5931
email: doliveguy@aol.com

With over 20 years of experience working with local and national companies, videographer Dave Olive owns and operates a Betacam SP camera and editing facility. He is the resident videographer for Ballet Florida, doing modern, classical and experimental work. Dave is available to document staged performances or create new works for the camera.


Jerry Pantzer
243 Riverside Drive #704
New York, NY 10025
Phone: (212) 222-7072

A filmmaker and videographer, Jerry Pantzer has had a long association with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dance Collection. He has directed and filmed a wide range of dance companies for their archival needs, as well as for independent production companies. His film credits include the 8-part series for PBS, Dancing, and major film works for Meredith Monk.


Adrian Ravarour
PO Box 39823
Los Angeles, CA 90039
Phone: (818) 244-6485

Adrian Ravarour is a videographer, archivist and choreographer. She has worked as a videographer for the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and as an archivist for the Los Angeles Dance Video Archive, founded by Nancy Mason Hauser.


Amy Reusch
30 Woodland Street, #8A
Hartford, CT 06105
Phone: (860) 249-1516
email: eye4dance@aol.com
website: users.aol.com/eye4dance/home.htm

Amy Reusch has been a dance videographer since 1984. She provides video services to the dance community, including archival recordings, promotional footage, booking tapes and demo tapes. Her extensive background in dance makes for informed camera work and editing. Amy is available for productions out of her home state, and often provides editing services via correspondence. She recently completed the NIPAD-funded project, "The Source Experience: Enriching the Humphrey Legacy," in collaboration with the Doris Humphrey Society an distributed by Dance Horizons.


Douglas Rosenberg
5973 Purcell Rd
Oregon, WI 53575
Phone: (608) 262-1641
email: rosend@mail.soemadison.wisc.edu
website: www.globaldialog.com/~adfvideo/index.html

Douglas Rosenberg is a producer/director, video documentarian and filmmaker. He is the producer/director for the American Dance Festival video series Speaking of Dance: Conversations with Contemporary Masters of American Modern Dance. Since 1986 he has been the Director of the American Dance Festival (ADF) Video Archival Program, as well as Curator/Director of the ADF Dance Film and Video Festival.


Evann Siebens
6 Greene Street
Suite #13
New York, NY 10013
Phone/Fax: (212) 334.0349
email: evann7@earthlink.net

Evann Siebens works as a director and dance cinematographer - shooting and directing documentaries and dance films made for the camera. She is presently directing and producing a documentary on hula dancers that will be nationally broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV in the summer of 2003. She is also presently directing a commissioned documentary for the Limón Dance Company. Evann has been the director of photography for numerous dance films and documentaries and and has filmed dancers such as Mikail Baryshnikov, Bill T. Jones, José Navas, Sara Rudner, Molissa Fenley, Peter Boal, Eiko and Lucinda Childs.


Richard Stucker
111-E Charles Street
Providence, RI 02904
email: stuckervideo@earthlink.net
website: http://www.dadstv-stuckervideo.com/

Richard Stucker has over 30 years of experience recording live dance and theatre performances nationwide, both single-camera and multi-camera style, serving as Director/Producer and/or Director/Videographer and Avid Editor. He has recorded nearly 400 live Broadway and Off-Broadway plays in New York and regional theatre productions across the country, as well as many live dance performances for the Dance Collection at the New York Public Library. Besides shooting nationwide, he offers portable Avid editing systems that can be setup anywhere to edit existing footage in any video format.


Penny Ward
5 Rivington Street, #4
New York, NY 10002
Phone: (212) 228-1427

Penny Ward is a former dancer who currently works as a videographer and archivist, including work for the New York Public Library Dance Collection. She does video production and editing for demo tapes and grant applications as well as collaborations with choreographers to incorporate video into live performance. Ward received a 1989 NYFA Fellowship and has had her work seen on television in New York, Los Angeles and Korea.


Bruce B. Williams
Ile Ife Films and the Arthur Hall Collection
754 Mt. Ephraim Rd
Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: (207) 548-2445
email: ile@agate.net
website: www.agate.net/~ile

Bruce Williams is a filmmaker, editor and director specializing in dance and arts education. He is the President of Ile Ife Films and the Arthur Hall Collection, currently producing the documentary, And the Children Danced: Thirty Years of The Arthur Hall Afro-American Dance Ensemble. Mr. Williams also produced the award-winning Snake Dance Teacher Dance, as well as Arthur Hall's Obatala and Orisun Omi (The Well). Ile Ife Films has 16mm and S-VHS video cameras, as well as a full-track Nagra for location sound and post-production facilities dedicated to dance documentation, preservation and presentation.


Rogulja Wolf
3550 Kell Street
Fort Worth, TX 76109
Phone: (817) 924-2227
email: wolf@stonecircle.com

Rogulja Wolf is an award-winning video producer with documentaries in the Smithsonian library. Wolf has done collaborative dance and video work for live presentation, including "Spaces of Inner Drifting" presented at IDAT '99 and "No Visible Trace" accepted for the International Dance Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. Full production and post-production services are available, with special consideration given for dance and theatre projects.

 

 

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