{"isbn":9781350897410,"description":"Episode 19 of 15 Days of Dance (in 20 hours) Emmy award winning producer Elliot Caplan served as filmmaker in residence at the Cunningham Dance Foundation from 1983 until January 1998, collaborating with Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the production of films and videos. Commissioned by Center for the Moving Image, University at Buffalo, Brian Reeder's new work for the ABT Studio Company is a ballet for six dancers set to Music for the Theater by Aaron Copland and featuring costumes designed by Reeder. Caplan and his fellow cameraman caught the choreographic process at different angles, in varying light, in close up and in long shot. New York City peered through the room's large windows as they filmed, and inside a powerful intimacy reigned over the action. Caplan's idea was to establish with 15 Days of Dance a new standard of filmed dance preservation and at the same time to capture the choreographic process from the first step to its staged showing. While 15 Days of Dance is a document it is far more than that: it is an extended cinematic rumination on the making of art. Graciously, Reeder and the dancers allow us in to view their artistic process, a process closely guarded by most dance makers due, in part, to its intimacy but also due to its often discursive, improvisational nature. Choreography by Brian Reeder Music by Aaron Copland \"Music for the Theare\" Performed by Leonard Bernstein Dancers: Aria Alekzander, Yannick Bittencourt, Roddy Doble, Owen Gaj, Rosé Sebastian, Ty Gurfein, Joseph Gorak, Devon Teuscher, Mary Mills Thomas, Faye Hideko Warren, Katherine Williams Producer / Director: Elliot Caplan Emmy award winning producer Elliot Caplan served as filmmaker in residence at the Cunningham Dance Foundation from 1983 until January 1998, collaborating with Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the production of films and videos. Together, their work has aired nationally on PBS, Bravo, Arts & Entertainment, and internationally to thirty-five countries. Changing Steps, filmed at the Sundance Institute with an introduction by Robert Redford was produced in association with La Sept and distributed by éditions a Voir. From 1996-2000, Caplan served as segment producer for PBS's national series on art in America, \"EGG,\" and received an Emmy Award and Cine Golden Eagle for \"Outstanding Cultural Programming.\" His work includes segments on Richard Serra and The Whitney Biennial 2000. As producer for City Arts, WNET/THIRTEEN, Caplan's work included, the making of Carmen Backstage at The Metropolitan Opera with James Levine, Plácido Domingo, Waltraud Meier and Franco Zeffirelli; Jackson Pollack @ MoMA; the restoration of the Rose Reading Room at The New York Public Library, Reading Room Restored; and a segment profiling architect/sculptor, Maya Lin. Caplan's other work includes theater design and direction. In collaboration with Tony award winning performer Bill Irwin, Caplan designed an evening of theater and video, which was presented at The Roundabout Theatre in New York, June 1999. Caplan designed pieces that were performed by the Cunningham Company at the Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, October 1997 and in Paris at the Opera Garnier, January 1998. Together with composer Michael Gordon and the orchestra Ensemble Resonanz, Caplan produced the twenty-six screen video opera Weather, sponsored by the Siemens Foundation Kultur Program and Oper Bonn, which toured five cities in Europe through 2001. In 1991, Caplan and Gordon made Van Gogh Video Opera, first performed at the Bang On A Can Festival and then at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna. With German choreographer Sasha Waltz, Caplan designed a sixteen-screen multi-monitor projection for live performance. Alle der Kosmonauten has been the recipient of numerous awards including, \"Berliner Theatertreffen\", 1996 and the National Theater Festival selection 1997, Seoul, Korea. Caplan produced the film, One To Four with British choreographer, Robert Poole which features Poole as performer. Additional film collaborations include works with Bruce Baillie, Richard Foreman, Yvonne Rainer and Susan Seidelman. Caplan's work has received numerous awards, including: 1999-2000 Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural Programming, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; 2000 Cine Golden Eagle Award, Outstanding Cultural Series; 1996 Gold Award, Dance On Camera Festival at Lincoln Center, Best Documentary; 1995 Bessie Award for Best New Video Work; \"Grand Prix International Video Danse, 1994\", and the \"Categorie Captation de Spectacle Prix Academie des Beaux Arts\", Stockholm, Sweden; 1993 Grand Prize, New York Dance on Camera Festival; 1993 IMZ Dance Screen Award Grand Prix; 1992 IMZ Dance Screen Award for Best Documentary for Cage/Cunningham. Points In Space, Changing Steps received The New York Times Critics Choice, 1990 Gold Award Dance On Camera Festival, and the 2nd Grand Prix International Video-Danse Festival, France. Caplan's documentary art film on painter, Robert S. Zakanitch won the Chicago International Film Festival and the International Art Film Biennale at Centre George Pompidou, Paris. Film and video retrospectives have been presented in Portugal, Holland, Japan and the United States. Video installations were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires (1999); Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; The Jewish Museum, Vienna (1997); Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Gallery, New York (1995); and the Cartier Foundation, Paris (1996). Caplan's work is included in the following permanent collections: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre George Pompidou and Cinematheque Francais, Paris, the National Institute of the Arts, Taiwan; Tanzfilm Institute, Cologne and the Munich Filmmuseum, Germany, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, the Instituto Itaú Cultural, Brazil, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. He has taught courses, lectured and been in residence at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad including co-direction with Michael Kidd of the Dance/Film/Video Workshop at the Sundance Institute. Caplan has served as a panel member and juror for the National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, Jacob's Pillow, IMZ Dance Screen, British Arts Council, Fulbright Fellowships, and the Sundance Film Festival. Language - English","videoId":6312248785112,"episode":19,"subscription":"bvl_dancesch","title":"The Making of \"Ghost Light\" Episode 19","xml_source":"bvl_dancesch_video-vra.xml","facets":"video , Video ,","contenttypeorder":3,"productname":"bvl_all","contentType":"video","identifier":"PSF-15Days19_6312248785112","browse_author":"Brian Reeder (Choreographer), Elliot Caplan (Director), Elliot Caplan (Producer) and Picture Start Films, Inc. 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