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MULTIMEDIA DANCE & VIDEO EXCERPTS

Using the symbolic forces of Nature, Air Earth Fire, and Water, Judith has focused on our need to create a balance of these elemental forces.  We must nurture, protect, and sustain the world as we know it, viewing the spiritual aspects, and protect it for future generations.   

With this in mind, Judith traveled to different places filming on location, such as the Lacandon Rainforest.  She created an hour long film, composed and coordinated with three screens, to be seen together with dance on stage.  These 3- screen compositions were synchronized and had 5 separate sections:1 Earth:(Rainforest), 2 Water: (Ocean and Rivers), 3 Fire:( Chango and Oya), 4 Air: (Transformations), 5 Earth Return: (Africa.) 

This 3-screen film is intended to be performed as  a collaboration with dance choreography.   The piece has yet to be performed in its entirety, however  some of the sections have been performed on different occasions, with choreography and costumes by Judith Davies. 

Here are some examples of photos and video excerpts of the Project.

IMPROV W/EARTH(AFRICA) SECTION

CALARTS CSSSA PROGRAM, STUDENTS WORKING WITH IMAGES, VIDEO BY J DAVIES

DETAIL OF IMPROV; 'EARTH;AFRICA'

THREE-SCREEN COMBINATION VIDEO FOR DANCE

WATER;RIVER AND OCEAN

VIEW OF IMPROV AT CAL ARTS CSSSA

FIRE; CHANGO-- VIDEO AND DANCE

IMAGES OF CUBAN CEREMONIES AND FIRE RELATING TO CHANGO DEITY

AIR; TRANSFORMATIONS

IMAGES OF SKY, REFLECTIONS ON WATER, BIRDS IN FLIGHT, PETROGLYPHS ARE COMBINED ON THREE SCREENS

AIR; TRANSFORMATIONS

CLOSER VIEW OF PETROGLYPHS OF VIDEO

FIRE;CHANGO AT POMONA COLLEGE

MUNECO PERFORMS CHANGO WITH THREE VIDEOS AT BACK

FIRE:CHANGO PERFORMED AT POMONA COLLEGE

THREE VIDEO SCREENS WERE COMBINED HORIZONTALLY DUE TO LIMITED STAGE SPACE CONSIDERATIONS; KATI HERNANDEZ AS ELEGGUA

FIRE:CHANGO, POMONA COLLEGE

PERFORMANCE OF DANCE/VIDEO MULTIMEDIA PROJECT, KATI HERNANDEZ AS OYA, MUNECO AS CHANGO

Earth; Rainforest

A short excerpt (1:30) from a performance at Santa Monica College, (8 min) showing the relationship of the three-screen video with dance. Videos, set, choreography, and costumes by J. Davies. Dancers; R Lopez, C.Wigman, S Wigman, J Davies. Video of Lacandon Rainforest shot by J Davies and edited by Chris Halmo

Fire:Chango

Short excerpt (1:30) of a performance (20 min) at Pomona College (2008) celebrating Chango, deity of fire in the Afrocuban, Lucumi, tradition. Here, due to staging limitations, the three-screen videos were combined on one long horizontal screen behind the dancers. Kati Hernadez dances Oya, and Muneco dances Chango. Costumes, video by J. Davies from travels in Cuba, (edited by Chris Halmo,)

Water:Rivers and Oceans

Short excerpt (2:00) of student performance at Marlborough School, LA. (Duration 10 min) J Davies choreographer, video, stage set, and costume design. (video editor Chris Halmo). Here, two screens of video used on both sides of the stage. (Some footage used with permission of Marine Mammal Center, Sausilito)

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