“We hire LRP to document all the performances at CounterPulse. I always advise artists to invest in high-quality documentation because the investment is something that will pay off over and over again. LRP’s services are absolutely worth the investment.”
Rainforest Action Network knows it–Radical is necessary! Take a peek at the video we shot and edited of RAN's REVEL 2017 annual fundraiser which includes speeches by Dallas Goldtooth, Amy Goodman, and Lindsey Allen. LRP is so grateful for our longtime relationship with these movers & shakers and for the vital work they do!
Did you know that we also make crowdfunding campaign and other promotional videos? Crowdfunding has been a very successful means of raising money for many entrepreneurs and artists! I wanted to share with you a few recent campaign videos of some meaningful campaigns this season - check them out!
Author Rachael Maddox's new book "Sex After Trauma"
Embodiment Project's "Ancient Children" performance project
Smuin Ballet's annual shoe campaign:
As part of his installation, Look at a cat when it stalks a bird; or a beast when it wants to escape, Liam Everett invited Hope Mohr to hold a weekly open rehearsal at the SFMoMA as a way to consider questions regarding the nature of practice. Take a peek and chew on a response!
As a baby is born, so is a new mother. Kimberly Ann Johnson's book The Fourth Trimester (published by Shambhala Publications) details how to care for the postpartum mother. The task is essential, and she will guide you through it. Loren made this short video, so take a peek if you are (or if someone you know is) crossing the threshold into motherhood or if you're just open to the wisdom of the mama.
Music: Dan Phillipson
Featuring: Wendy Taylor, Maria Slocum, Centehua Sage, Elizabeth Griswold, Kristin Hauser, Thomas Hauser
A special thanks to Circe Wallace
Shoes are a vital part of the dancers' experience at Smuin Ballet. Not only do they provide support, but each type of shoe helps the dancer step into her character; you could say it has transformative powers. And believe it or not, a performer might wear 10 different pairs in one ballet! So each year the company raises funds for this essential part of work. If you'd like to help them put their best foot forward watch this video we directed and contribute to their campaign!
Loren had the privilege of being able to return to footage from a series of performances in 2011 by Avy K Productions/Erika Tsimbrovsky held at SOMArts in San Francisco and create some shorts from it!
Cameras: Loren Robertson & Silvia Turchin
We are so excited to share this promo video we shot and edited for long time client, Embodiment Project. EP's latest work, "Ancient Children", is inspired by Shakti Butler's film "Healing Justice" about how restorative justice can disrupt the school to prison pipeline. Artistic Director, Nicole Klaymoon, and her dancer collaborators talk about how they brought forth their own stories and also embody those of others to make this powerful piece. "Ancient Children" previews throughout the west coast in the upcoming months and premieres at ODC in June 2018.
Music: Tama Waipara - Pacifika (Cecil Beatdown)
Camera: Jenny Chu
For its tenth anniversary season, Hope Mohr Dance responds to the current gentrification problem in the Bay Area with Precarious. A series, it began as a site specific work. It then re-framed and continued in a similar generative process, showing at CounterPulse with a walking tour and Mohr's signature intense and tactile thematic exploration. Check out this highlight edit!
Choreography: Hope Mohr in collaboration with performers
Sound Design: Theodore J.H. Hulsker
Lighting Design: Gabe Maxson
Video Design: David Szlasa
Costume Design: Tegan Schwab
Here's an example of how we can create an inspirational promotional film utilizing new and existing footage to motivate donors/potential donors. This was shown at Alonzo King LINES Ballet's annual Gala event and then was repurposed to live on the fundraising/donation section of their website:
LRP loves LINES!
Footage courtesy of:
Frank Thibault
Loren Robertson Productions/Jenny Chu
BNP Foundation
Music by Jason Moran and Charles Lloyd; Scott Holmes
Our awesome client, Lauren Marie Fleming is a writer, educator, and the creator of Bawdy Love, a life-changing program in book form. Her book helps others articulate the stories of their own lives and the stories they want told, which frees them up to live those lives. As well as a book, Bawdy Love is an entire support program with access to a rich community of others who have more support on offer. The result? Positive and healthy living. Can't go wrong there, right?
video: Loren Robertson Productions
music: Gayle Skidmore
Leading UK disabled artist Claire Cunningham and international choreographer and performer Jess Curtis' "The Way You Look (At Me) Tonight" grapples with questions of how we perceive each other and the world around us. With dancing, singing, story telling, music, and video, this work is a living, philosophical and sensorial audience-engaged experience. Performed at CounterPulse. Here's an example of how we used a full show 2-camera edit to make both a quick sizzle reel and also a more in depth 5min. highlight edit for promotional and portfolio purposes:
Philosophical consultation by Alva Noe
Video by Yoann Trellu
Music by Mathias Herrmann
Texts by Claire Cunningham, Jess Curtis, and Alva Noe
FAITH MATERIAL: ACTIVISM performed at CounterPulse, is a body- and object-bed performance about the urgent importance of believing in things that cannot be proven. The work utilizes physical practices of mediumship, ontological re-animation of objects, and full expression of faith to present a number of intimate domestic scenes of queer solitude-turned-futurism. Jesse Hewit's work is clearly influenced by Haraway’s “new materialism” politics, by the queer re-imagining/survival project of Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and by the creative faith-practices of artist/priest Amara Tabor-Smith, poet/theologian Marvin K. White, and artist/healer Sara Shelton Mann.
Concept, Choreography, Text, Scenography, Performance: Jesse Hewit
Choreography, Text, Performance: Keyon Gaskin
Choreography, Text: Abby Crain
Light: Zoe Klein
Sound: Robbie Beahrs
Cameras: Jacob Marks, Rachel Marks
ach year LRP has the privilege of documenting Rainforest Action Network's (RAN) event, REVEL. Here's a highlight video of this stellar organization's annual celebration of their successes, its show of gratitude to their community, and a reach for more and continued support in their work across the globe. We need RAN now more than ever!
Music: Afrolicious
Click here to see a good example of how to utilize a highlight/promo video in your organization's website.
We're excited about this promo video we crafted for the Alonzo King LINES Ballet summer program. This top notch training program not only offers students the opportunity to study and perform with master teachers and choreographers, but it also asks the pupil to explore oneself, body, mind, and spirit and honors every person's unique individuality. Watch these young dancers meet themselves, then take off and fly.
Videography: Jenny Chu
Summer Program performance footage courtesy of Andy Mogg/Dancing Images
Music by SilverHoof; Mozart played by Gianluca Luisi; Roman Razuvaev
Each year we make a video of the year in review. Here's a collage of the luminous, forthright, and expertly crafted performance we had the privilege to document in 2016. Have a watch; you'll feel so proud of your fellow artists! And get in our calendar for 2017. The world needs your diverse voices and perspectives. Happy New Year!
Cameras by: Jenny Chu, Laura Lukitsch, Jacob Marks, Rachel Marks, Loren R. Robertson
In case you are tempted to spring for a 2 camera full show edit for your next event, take a look at this video LRP recently made of Christy Funsch Dance Experience's show "Le Grande Spectacle de l'effort et de l'artifice" at ODC. Angles, close ups, wide view, intimate, and yet captures all the action! The works!! https://vimeo.com/193560949
CounterPulse, who opened their doors in the Tenderloin this year, are positioned to help keep artists in SF and to support the revitalization of their new neighborhood by providing a platform for artists to speak their minds without barriers. Check out their 2016 Annual Appeal video that Loren edited, and send some love their way!
Cameras: Jenny Chu, Jacob Marks, Rachel Marks, Loren R. Robertson
Photography by Robbie Sweeny and Kegan Marling
Music by J.L. Kane
Here's a promo we shot and cut for Hope Mohr's 2016 Bridge Project: Ten Artists Respond to Locus, which runs this month, October 14 & 15 at YBCA. The project brings together Diane Madden, 10 Bay Area post-modern artists of varied disciplines, and a very seminal work of the very influential Trisha Brown. Have a look and get your tickets!
And here's a highlight of the show itself:
Do Be will keep you on your toes, replete with lamp shades, balloons, migrating musicians, wardrobes that house people, and of course their phenomenal dancing and exceptional musicianship! Watch this highlight edit LRP made of the equally talented collection of artists from post:ballet and The Living Earth Show.
Choreography: Robert Dekkers with contributions from the dancers
Music curation and performance: Travis Andrews & Andy Meyerson
Costume and Scenic Design: Christian Squires
Lighting Design: Jim French Commissioned Score: Jacob Cooper
Camera: Jacob Marks