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Learning Applications to Document Dance (LADD) Project

1. Overview of LADD

  • The Crisis in Dance Documentation
  • The Founding of NIPAD
  • Establishment of LADD
  • LADD Consortium Partners
    • S.F. Performing Arts Library and Museum
    • Bay Area Video Coalition
    • Theater Artaud
    • World Arts West
  • Documenting Ethnic and Contemporary Dance
    • San Francisco Bay Area Dance Community
    • The Documentary Challenges of Ethnic and Contemporary Dance
    • Preserving Dance, Preserving Culture
    • LADD Goals and Objectives
    • LADD Consortium Participants

2. The Importance of Quality Video

  • Elements of Quality Video
    • The Two-Camera Approach
    • The Two-Camera Equipment Package
    • Communication and Collaboration
  • Practical Applications for Quality Video
    • Creating video archives
    • Improving booking potential
    • Enhancing funding applications
    • Contributing to the artist's process
    • Invigorating the research and education market
    • Accessing television broadcast markets

3. Elements of the LADD Program

  • Introductory Community Forum
  • Public Workshops: Documenting Dance on Video
    • Workshop One:
      • The Voice of Experience
      • Viewer's View
      • Artists' Issues in Documenting Dance
      • Developing a Common Language
      • Process and Language
    • Workshop Two:
      • Planning and Communication
      • Video Production and Post-production
      • Working Within a Budget

4. Documenting Dance with Video: Findings

  • Pre-production
    • Budget/Cost
    • The question of rights
    • Selecting a videographer
    • Forming a creative partnership
    • Knowing the performance
  • Production
    • Scouting the venue/location
    • Releases
    • Camera/lighting
    • Sound
  • Post-Production
    • Dubbing and tape care
    • Editing options

APPENDICES: (not included in online version).

  • Questions for Videographers to Ask Artistic ulectors
  • Questions for Artistic ulectors to Ask Videographers
  • Basic Video Glossary
  • Basic Theater Glossary
  • The LADD Consortium
  • The LADD Fellows
  • Technical Shooting Tips (Fellow Journal Excerpt)
  • Detail Camera Set Up Checklist (Fellow Journal Excerpt)
  • Sample Forms
    • Venue description
    • Project Description
    • Video release form
    • Contract