Dance for Camera

The Bell House had a great screening this weekend of two of our videodances at the Living Water Dance Company's performance at Kivisto Studio in Tulsa. The films screened were She Drew a Picture of a Whale and, the longtime coming, Deeper. Both seemed to be received well by the audience who generously applauded after each dancefilm, as they did for the entire concert. What a great audience!

Thank you to Amy McIntosh, Artist Director of Living Water Dance Company, for the opportunity to show our work. We especially appreciate the premiere for Deeper.

Post has begun for the underwater dancefilm, Deeper. It's going well and there are new connections being discovered that can only be uncovered by the visual and kinesthetic fusion that happens in editing. There is still a lot of work to be done but it is coming along. View a draft of the film project at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDiATUnL5Ck

On another note, THE EXCHANGE Choreography Festival is in the planning stages. The first mailout for the festival should go out by mid-December and we are all a buzz about its potential. Hosting this premiere event is Oral Roberts University located in southtown Tulsa. As you guessed by the title, THE EXCHANGE is a choreography festival dedicated exclusively to the creative process. There will be master classes dealing with choreographic and performance process as well as a site-specific workshop with the potential for a performance opportunity during the festival. There will be two adjudicated concerts for artists who wish to receive feedback and critique from our jurors as well as a professional gala on Saturday night featuring Living Water Dance Company, Melody Ruffin-Ward, Brooke Schlecte and Out On a Limb Dance Company, Stephanie Miracle, and Bell House's own, Rachel Bruce Johnson.

Keep a look out for registration details and further festival details at www.bellhousearts.org