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
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