educator | director | camera
CURRICULUM VITAE
TEACHING
Saint Mary’s College of California (2023–present)
Lecturer, “Digital Dance,” Performing Arts Department (Spring 2024)
Lecturer, “Dance for Camera,” Performing Arts Department (Spring 2024, Summer 2023)
University of California, Berkeley (2017–2019, 2022)
Lecturer, “Film Production for Dance and Movement,” Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (Summer 2017–2019, 2022)
Lecturer, “Video Production for Performance,” Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (Spring 2018)
University of Utah (2011–2014, 2022)
Lecturer, “Screendance Capstone,” School of Dance (Spring 2022)
Lecturer, “Screendance,” School of Dance (Spring 2022)
Lecturer, “Introduction to Film,” Department of Film & Media Arts (Spring 2013)
Lecturer, “Performance Documentation and Editing,” Departments of Modern Dance, Ballet, and Film (Fall 2012)
Teaching Assistant, “Advanced Film Production,” Department of Film & Media Arts (Fall 2012, Spring 2014)
Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to Film,” Department of Film & Media Arts (Fall 2011, Spring 2012)
San Francisco Dance Film Festival (2010–2013, 2015, 2017–2019, 2022)
Resident Workshop Instructor, Workshop covering a range of topics related to screendance including history, theory, and practice
Young Artists Platform of Dance
Chongqing, China: Workshop Instructor, five day production workshop co-taught with Adi Halfin (2019)
Beijing, China: Workshop Instructor, “Developing a Concept for Your Dance Film: How to Envision Dance for the Camera” (2017)
INVITED LECTURES
American College Dance Association’s Screendance Festival, Guest Speaker: “Terpsichore in Headsets: Dance, Virtual Reality and Shared Potential” (Spring 2022)
UCLA’s Ballet & Books Fundraiser, Guest Speaker: “Reaching Your Audience Beyond the Stage” (Fall 2021)
Brigham Young University Department of Dance, Guest Teacher: “Terpsichore in Headsets: Dance, Virtual Reality and Shared Potential” (Fall 2019)
Screendance Forum, Webinar, “Terpsichore in Headsets: Dance, Virtual Reality and Shared Potential” (2019)
Southwest University, Chongqing, China, College of Music, Guest Teacher: Screendance Workshop (Fall 2017)
Mills College Dance Department, Guest Teacher: Screendance (Fall 2015)
Stanford University Department of Theater & Performance Studies, Guest Teacher: Screendance Workshop (Spring 2012)
Brigham Young University Department of Dance, Guest Teacher: Screendance Workshop (Fall 2012)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA (2010–Present)
Co-founder, Resident Workshop Instructor, Technical Director (2010–2017, 2019–Present)
Amy Seiwert's Imagery, Contemporary Ballet Company, San Francisco, CA (2013–Present)
Video Consultant
San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco, CA (2020–2021)
Digital Content Producer
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT (2017, 2018)
Videographer
ADJUDICATION
American College Dance Association’s Screendance Festival, Virtual (2022)
Adjudicator
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA (2010, 2011, 2015, 2016)
Programming Committee
Utah Dance Film Festival, Provo, UT (2014)
Juror
University of Utah International Screendance Festival, Salt Lake City, UT (2013)
Screening Panel Member
Young at Art, San Francisco Youth Film Festival, San Francisco, CA (2007)
Juror
EDUCATION
University of Utah, Salt Lake City (2014)
Master of Fine Arts in Film & Media Arts
Graduate Certificate in Screendance
University of California, Los Angeles (2000)
Bachelor of Arts in World Arts & Cultures
University of California, Berkeley (Fall 1998)
Participated in the UC Intercampus Visitor Program for a semester
PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS
Katrina McPherson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (2011, 2018)
Weeklong workshop for improvisational shooting techniques for screendance
Thierry de Mey
University of Utah, Salt Lake City (2018)
Three day workshop studying the films, video installations, and process of de Mey
University of California, Los Angeles (2007)
Weeklong workshop studying the films and process of de Mey
Symposium for Teachers of Screendance, Duke University (2015)
Led by Douglas Rosenberg and Katrina McPherson, the symposium initiated the development of a screendance pedagogy
CREATIVE RESEARCH: SCREENDANCE & MUSIC VIDEOS
DIRECTOR & DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Night Theme (2017, TRT 5:20)
Co-Director & Co-Director of Photography: Heath Orchard; Original Music by James Williamson & Scott Thurston; Choreographed by Meghan Horowitz; Lead Dancer: Anica Bottom
2017 San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2017 Premiered, Yahoo! Music
Just So (2016, TRT 8:57)
Choreographed by Amy Seiwert; Dancers: Brandon “Private” Freeman, Pascal Molat
2017 Cinedans Festival, presented by the EYE Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam
2017 Perth Dance Festival, Perth, Scotland
2017 Words on Dance, San Francisco, CA
2017 Short Waves Festival: Dances with Camera, Poznań, Poland
2017 Tiny Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2016 Premiered, San Francisco Dance Film Festival
The Colour of Your Dreams (2012, TRT 2:10)
Choreographed by Sarah Longoria; Dancers: Vinnie Prisbrey, Sarah Longoria
2014 Spring Showcase, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2013 Premiered, Municipal Ballet Co. live performance, Sugar Space, Salt Lake City, UT
Laurencia (2012, TRT 2:09)
Regina Zarhina, Ballet Mistress; Dancer: Morgan Butler
2013 Editors’ Choice: Winner of Pointe magazine's April Video of the Month
Rebirth (2011, TRT 2:09)
Choreographed by Holly Martin; Dancer: Jessica Liu
2016 Videodanza DV Danza Habana Movimiento y Ciudad, Havana, Cuba
2013 Premiered, University of Utah International Screendance Festival, Salt Lake City, UT
Glimpses (2009, TRT 3:24)
Choreographed and Performed by Greta Schoenberg
2011 Premiered, San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival
Gimme Shelter (2000, TRT 6:51)
Choreographed and Performed by Jenay Kiddoo
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Imagined Escape (2019, TRT 5:12)
Directed and Choreographed by Lauren Bedal; Dancers: Hien Huynh and Kai Javier
2020 Tiny Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2019 Premiered, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Light (2017, TRT 57:00)
Directed by Tatsu Aoki; Choreographed by Lenora Lee; Dancers: Lenora Lee Dance; Directors of Photography: Tatsu Aoki, Zhuoyun Chen, Joshua Chuck, Ben Estabrook, Eric Koziol, Heath Orchard, Joel Wanek
2017 San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2017 Best Experimental Film, Canada International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC
2017 DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2017 Premiered, CAAMFEST, San Francisco, CA
Flock Together (2017, TRT 5:00)
Directed and Choreographed by Alex Irwin; Dancers: Michael Montgomery, Jamielyn Duggan, Frankie Tanimal
2017 Premiered, San Francisco Dance Film Festival
Open (2015, TRT 4:00)
Directed by Lindsay Gauthier; Choreographed by Dana Genshaft; Dancers: Michael Montgomery, Laura O’Malley
2017 Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Premiered, San Francisco Dance Film Festival
The Detached (2014, TRT 13:00)
Directed by Tatsu Aoki; Choreographed by Lenora Lee; Performed by Lenora Lee Dance
2013 Screened at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
since you went (2013, TRT 3:38)
Directed, Choreographed, and Performed by RAWdance: Wendy Rein and Ryan Smith
2015 Bestias Danzantes, hosted by Las Cabras Creative Lab in Santiago, Chile
2015 Cinedans Festival, presented by the EYE Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam
2014 Kinetoscope: Screendance Film Festival, Montana’s Bare Bait Dance
2014 Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Colorado’s Boulder Public Library
2014 Dance on Camera Tour, University of Michigan
2014 City Art Link at the Östergötlands Museum in Linköping, Sweden
2014 Avayava Contemporary Dance Festival in Pune, India
2014 Horizon Screendance Festival in North Hampshire
2014 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
2014 Dance on Camera, New York City
2013 Movies by Movers, North Carolina’s High Point University
2013 San Francisco’s inaugural Tiny Dance Film Festival, presented by detour dance
The Escape (2013, TRT 30:00)
Directed by Tatsu Aoki; Choreographed by Lenora Lee; Performed by Lenora Lee Dance
2013 18th Annual Asian American Showcase, Chicago
Veronica & Vincent (2012, TRT 6:10)
Directed and Choreographed by Amy Seiwert; Dancers: Brandon “Private” Freeman, Andrea Basile
2017 Digital Dance Concert at the World Dance Alliance Americas Global Summit, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
2015 Short Waves Festival: Dances with Camera, Poznań, Poland
2015 The Outlet Dance Project, Hamilton, NJ
2013 IMZ’s dancescreen with San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2013 Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Boulder, CO
2013 Premiered, Dance Camera West, Los Angeles
Reflections (2012, TRT 5:00)
Directed and Choreographed by Lenora Lee; Performed by Lenora Lee Dance
2013 Premiered, San Francisco Dance Film Festival
The Nightingale (2011, TRT 21:26)
Directed and Choreographed by Greta Schoenberg; Dancers: Maria LaMance, Brandon “Private” Freeman, Noel Simonse, Greta Schoenberg
Distributed by TenduTV in Season 2 of “Essential Dance Film Collection”
2011 Jumping Frames International Dance Video Showcase, Hong Kong
2011 Premiered, San Francisco Dance Film Festival
The Glitter Emergency (2010, TRT 20:00)
Directed by Paul Festa; Choreographed by Myles Thatcher; Dancers: Matthew Simmons, Sylvie Volosov, Jaime Garcia Castilla, Martyn Garside
2011 Premiered, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
Pretty Things (2010, TRT 5:00)
Directed and Choreographed by Katie Faulkner; Performed by students of the Berkeley Dance Project
Commissioned by UC Berkeley for the Berkeley Dance Project
A Glamour (2009, TRT 3:00)
Directed, Choreographed, and Performed by Monique Jenkinson
Commissioned by VOLUME for Scores, an art exhibition at Lawrimore Project in Seattle
Float (2009, TRT 3:00)
Directed and Choreographed by Greta Schoenberg
REVIVE workshop in conjunction with the San Francisco Dance Center and the SF Art Institute
Labyrinth Within (2008) [pilot]
Directed and Choreographed by Pontus Lidberg; Dancer: Greta Schoenberg
Developed into short that won the Jury Prize for Best Picture at Dance on Camera
CAMERA OPERATOR
Last Dance (2020, TRT 5:05)
Directed by Lindsay Gauthier; Choreographed by Kevin Jenkins; Performed by Laurence Gonzalez Ramos and Reka Gyulai
2020 Premiered, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
GOLDEN (2019, TRT 8:15)
Directed by Kate Mitchell; Choreographed by Bianca Cabrera and Kate Mitchell; Performed by Margaret Tappan
2020 American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers, Durham, NC
2020 Austin Dance Festival: Dance on Film, Austin, TX
The Wait Room (2019, TRT 14:56)
Directed by Austin Forbord; Choreographed by Jo Kreiter; Performed by Clarissa Dyas, MaryStarr Hope, Laura Elaine Ellis, and Megan Lowe
2020 American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers, Durham, NC
2020 Premiered, Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, CA
Guernica (2018, TRT 3:54)
Directed by Kate Duhamel; Choreographed by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa; Performed by San Francisco Ballet
Commissioned for the San Francisco Ballet Unbound Festival of New Works
And So Say All of Us (2018, TRT 9:42)
Directed by Mitchell Rose; Improvised dance by 52 seminal international choreographers
Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music
Globe Trot (2014, TRT 4:34)
Directed by Mitchell Rose; Choreographed by Bebe Miller
2014 Cinedans Festival, presented by the EYE Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam
Love on the Run (2010, TRT 6:34)
Directed by Austin Forbord; Choreographed by Brenda Way and KT Nelson; Performed by ODC/Dance
One of nine arts organizations across the country taking part in DANCE/USA’s Engaging Dance Audiences, ODC/Dance screens this film as part of their Speak Dance project
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
The Time it Takes (2012, TRT 11:00)
Directed by Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes; Dancers: Simon Ellis, Dai Jian, Rosalind Masson
2014 Cinedans Festival, presented by the EYE Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam
Life Study #1 (2010, TRT 7:15)
Directed by Margaret Williams; Choreographed by Victoria Marks
2012 Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Boulder, CO
VIDEO DESIGN FOR STAGE (Editor/Animator)
2019 Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, Otra Vez, Otra Vez, Otra Vez, ODC Theater
2013 Epiphany Productions, Botany’s Breath, San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
2010 Ensemble Parallèle, Wozzeck, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2007 Robert Moses' Kin, Jokes Like That Can Get You Killed, Stanford Lively Arts
2007 Joe Goode Performance Group, Humansville, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
VIDEOGRAPHER (Performance Documentation, 2006–Present)
Amy Seiwert's Imagery
Anna Halprin
Chitresh Das Dance Company
Company C
Contraband/Sara Shelton Mann
Deborah Slater Dance Theater
Eric Kupers/Dandelion Dance Theater
Erika Shuch Performance Project
Flyaway Productions
Joe Goode Performance Group
Kathleen Hermesdorf/Motion Lab
Kunst-stoff
Lenora Lee Dance
LINES Ballet
Liss Fain Dance
Lucinda Childs
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
Municipal Ballet Co.
ODC/Dance
Project Bandaloop
Robert Moses’ Kin
Sacramento Ballet
San Francisco Ballet
Savage Jazz Dance Company
Scott Wells & Dancers
Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts
Smuin Ballet
UC Berkeley: Berkeley Dance Project
University of Utah Department of Ballet
University of Utah Department of Modern Dance
ASSISTANT EDITOR (Documentaries, Los Angeles 2001)
Crazy Wisdom (Released 2011)
Directed by Johanna Demetrakas
The New Americans (Released 2004)
Directed by Renee Tajima-Peña
Out of Faith (Released 2006)
Directed by Lisa Leeman
Limited Partnerships (Released 2014)
Directed by Tom Miller
PROMOTIONAL FILMS
SKETCH (2017–2019, 2022–2023 TRT ~ 4:00, Camera)
Client: Amy Seiwert’s Imagery
From Scratch (2021, three part episodic documentary series, TRT 7:01–7:49, Producer)
San Francisco Ballet
2021 Season Announcement: Take a Leap of Faith (2020, TRT 0:53, Editor)
San Francisco Ballet
Ballet West: Façades (2015, 3 videos, TRT 1:15–1:32, Director/Camera/Editor)
Client: Ballet West/Garrett Smith
Open by Peerless (2015, TRT 1:56, Director of Photography)
Client: Peerless Lighting
Restaurant Cheetah Explainer Video (2014, TRT 1:16, Director/Animator/Editor)
Client: Restaurant Cheetah
Principal Highlight Videos (2009–2010, 12 videos, TRT 1:08–1:55, Producer/Camera)
Client: San Francisco Ballet
TELEVISION SPOTS
The Christmas Ballet (2014–2016, TRT 0:30, Animator)
Client: Smuin Ballet
The Little Mermaid (2010, TRT 0:30, Producer)
Client: San Francisco Ballet
Swan Lake (2010, TRT 0:30, Producer)
Client: San Francisco Ballet
Pink Martini (2010, TRT 0:30, Producer)
Client: San Francisco Symphony
Idina Menzel (2010, TRT 0:30, Producer)
Client: San Francisco Symphony
Nutcracker (2009, TRT 0:30, Producer/Animator)
Client: San Francisco Ballet
A New Way of Seeing Ballet (2009, TRT 0:30, Producer/Animator)
Client: San Francisco Ballet
GRANTS
College of Fine Arts: Fine Arts Fees Grant, University of Utah (2014)
$5,000 to produce Spring Student Film Showcase
AWARDS
Izzie Nomination in Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design (2013)
Reflections, Lenora Lee Dance
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Far West Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, NV (2013)
“Capturing Ballet and Boxing on Film: How The Red Shoes Influenced Raging Bull”
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Frameform, Podcast
Season 3, Episode 13, 2022
Remembering Simon Fildes
Season 3, Episode 12, 2022
Ballet in Focus
Dancing Through the Lens, Podcast, Episode 7, 2021
Dance Like Everyone is Watching, Podcast, Episode 118, 2019
Falling into Your Passion with guest Ben Estabrook
The International Journal of Screendance, Vol 6, 2016
Screendance: Learning, Teaching, Living
Dance Studio Life, January 2016
Picture Perfect
Dance Studio Life, August 2014
Higher-Ed Voice | Dance for the Camera
Dance Studio Life, December 2013
Android-Made Art
KRCL Radio, May 2, 2012
Interview with Chante Burch about integrating arts into dance
VOLUNTEER WORK FOR ARTISTIC ORGANIZATIONS
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT (2012–2015)
Videographer
Spring Student Film Showcase, Salt Lake City, UT (2014)
Producer, Technical Director
University of Utah International Screendance Festival, Salt Lake City, UT (2013)
Technical Director
REFERENCES
References are available on request