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This is me (Mike Strong), at Kansas City Ballet, setting up in the Bolender Center's board room, for Billie Mahoney's "Dance On" program.
Here I check one of the camera's settings. I will later edit this and take the file to the server for broadcast on cable.
This was a segment shot for "Why White Men Can't Dance" by Phil Cacioppo (writer, director, producer, etc.). I'm the shooter and editor
Shot April 23, 2018 in Kansas City, MO
Two variations here, a 1-minute version and a 15-second version. Each handles audio differently. (March 2018)
National Tap Dance Day 2014 at the Uptown Arts Bar with tap jam by Billie Mahoney
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A few "changements" ("SHANZ mah") with producer and host (wearing a pink tutu).
In a changement you leap into the air exchanging front and back feet positions.
See what happened when the Fox-4 morning team came to City in Motion for a ballet lesson.
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Our (Dr Philip Olson, Nicole English, the class and me)
2004 documentary follow up on the PBS documentary
"Throw Away People" from 1991 which
painted the
Shaw district of Washington D.C. as crime infested.
We see how a "slum" with a bad reputation reworked itself.
On the right is our guide, Ernest "Pete" Peterson, who is a resident and a business man, and a developer in Shaw.
This was a fundraiser for the KCMO school kid's ballroom dance program, Culture Through Ballroom Dance
held in the TWA hanger museum at KCMO's downtown airport with the Abel Ramirez Big Band.
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Billie Mahoney in the Kansas City Ballet board room where we shoot "Dance On."
I set up the "studio," shoot and edit.
This was prepared for a celebration by Dancers Over 40 in New York City honoring Luigi
(Eugene Louis Faciutto), one of jazz dance's pioneers. Billie was unable to attend in person
this time (we had gone to DO40 events before) so we prepared this video dedication.
Billie Mahoney was one of his first assistants and is a dance notator (in Labanotation).
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Kansas City Baller dancers leap crossed over in a studio at Bolender Center
This was commissioned for the 2012 Ballet Ball fundraiser. It is a tour of the newly opened Bolender Center, the home of the Kansas City Ballet.
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Trina in West African dance at St. Mark's Lutheran at 38th and Troost
In this case I want you to listen to the music as the video cuts or crossfades. Basically I edit dance on the music,
not motion. So if you are dancing you should be able to dance all the way through without feeling "hit" by the mix.
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At new Overland Park location
JoAnne Fluke in wheelchair, joining in at Amore's 118th and Quivira location during studio dance party
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Loose Park (above)
Some of the swing dancers wanted to pull a Swing Bomb in Loose Park as a promotional device.
They did several swing bombs around town that year.
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Brittany Duskin leaps over and behind DeeAnna Hiett and Gavin Stewart
Another example of editing on the music. 6:17
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Kevin Tate and Maleek Washington carry Caroline Fogg in "Heart Thieves" by Robert Moses for Wylliams Henry Dance Co.
Short video for social media promotion from New Dance Partners at JCCC.
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This is a set of short extracts from the 2011-2015 dates of the program aired on Time Warner.
Billie Mahoney originally started her show in 1981 in New York City,
recording more than 300 shows there which were broadcast on cable.
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Gurukul is the name for Samarpita Bajpai's school of Indian classical dance and for her performing troupe.
Samarpita is shown here in front at left in a performance shot from the show. She is also choreographer,
producer, director and one of the dancers. In this 18-minute sampler, extracted from
the 1 hour and 25 minutes full run
show titled "Cosmic Forces" she mixes a traditional painting dance with her own contemporary classical choreography.
Nicole English at Cafe Cedar for Bellydance Coalition series - click on picture for embedded-video page
When Nicole English put on a series of bellydance shows at Cafe Cedar she contacted Cathy Hanis to help
with the publicity and as a result had this short bit at KCTV-5 in Fairway.
Members of Duende Troupe - Click on picture for embedded-video page
First of four belly dance coalition events by Nikoria dancers (Nicole English) and Cafe Cedar in
Parkville, MO (Jehad Saleh) Sunday afternoon 24 January 2010 (just north of Kansas City)
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This group of dancers in Kansas City joined in with the still small but growing day of Dance Anywhere
Dave Stephens at the Screenland Armour theater on July 3, 2010 in North Kansas City, Missouri
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A short, ten-minute remembrance of Don Lipovac
59-minute Documentary on the ballets, life and influence of Antony Tudor
Done for the Tudor Foundation
7-minutes extracted from 2 hour show
Brittany Duskin and Erik Sobbe in studio rehearsal with Bill Shapiro (Cyprus Avenue) sitting on the stool for the narration
Short extract from three days of performances
For the Love of ... by Cleo Robinson
Three sets of performance extracts showing
Demetia Hopkins, an Ailey Trio dancer
March 10, 2020 edit, open access
Real Phil Cacioppo's "mockumentary" which follows
fictional "Phil" as he tries to overcome his fear of dancing.
Phil is writer, producer, director and participant.
Short section from Why White Men Can't Dance with ballroom instructor and "student"
(Note, my image (below)is not from this extract, but from elsewhere in Phil's movie.)
First scene shot with swingsters at the former Allegro Ballroom
Separate link to the Viennese Waltz Dream Scene in WWMCD - This is included as an embed in the link above
https://vimeo.com/228015950
I've Used Sony's Vegas Pro since 1999, long before Sony purchased it. I allows me to edit using tracks from multiple cameras at the same time, all showing
within the same preview window. See the two examples below.
Above is a screen capture while I was editing "Tom Sawyer" - (Premier Fall 2011) - a ballet by William Whitener,
at that time the artistic director of the Kansas City Ballet. This is using 9 cameras and editing between them.
Below is a more typical 3-camera setup.
In this more typical example you can see the output from all three cameras used.
This is from Kansas City Friends of Alvin AIley's Festival on the Vine. The company is Dallas Black Dance.
The camera tracks are synched up on the timeline then the three video tracks (one track for each camera)
are joined into a single multi-camera track for editing using multi-camera mode. Pressing the frame number button
on the keyboard flips the outline to that camera which is the one then selected in the edit.
This creates cuts. To have fades between scenes you need to add those to the edit later.
Me (Mike Strong) checking a camera during setup for the program