MEDIA OVERHAUL

There seems to be so much to do and never enough time to do it all. I did, however, accomplish one thing so far this week - updating the portfolio on the design gallery page of The Bell House website.

I put together one digital image in order to showpiece a program I did for Out On a Limb Dance Company for the Out of the Loop Festival in 2009. I didn't want to upload all the pages individually, so I created one document to show the layout and uploaded that. Turned out pretty good.

We'll be auditioning for a photoshoot to create new images for Bell House mid-September. I'll be inviting area artists to participate in exchange for free images that they can use for their own purposes. The ideas that the BHA creative team have come up with for this shoot are amazing and will be exciting and challenging to capture. I'm finding a lot of inspiration from Laurent Ziegler, a brilliant photographer/video artist with an impressively abundant resumé. Under the collective name of un|still, Laurent's work ranges from dance, portraits, documentary, and art projects. And she simply signs her eNewletter with:

laurent ziegler

photographer

© copyright 2010 by laurent ziegler

There are many changes to the look and feel of our media coming. Just plugging away one thing at a time, which is all I can do these days and still not miss out on my two boys.

photo by Maranda Blumenthal

~Rachel

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