Facing East Dance and Music performs at the first annual Oakland Dance Festival.
Facing East Dance and Music performed at the Alice Arts Theater in Oakland in the first annual Oakland Dance Festival. The festival is being produced by Company C Contemporary Ballet under Charles Anderson. Other companies performing in the next two weeks include Capacitor and Savage Jazz Dance Company.
Facing East performed an abbreviated version of the Held So Close production from last year. I was fortunate to be able to photograph the dress rehearsal on Friday afternoon. It's sooo much better than photographing during the live performance. There was another photographer standing in the hallway during the performance clicking away the entire night. I must admit to being a bit irritated to hear the guy's 10D shutter tripping every few seconds... late. He returned the next night with a tripod. Even though I sat further away from him, I could still hear the shutter going off during the performance. As a photographer, I'm always concerned whether or not I'm making too much noise working. It's possible that the audience didn't notice, but I sure did!
As is to be expected, Facing East did its usual bang-up job. Company C and Savage Jazz weren't too shabby themselves, and my my what "interesting" outfits Savage had his dancers wear!
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Nice shots Adam. Have you written a brief on how you are feeling about the new camera? It would make an interesting addition to your site and I'm sure many are curious about your take on it...
Best,
-Larry--posted by Larry Gottschalk @ Sunday, June 13 2004, 21:20 pm PDT
Larry - I've been thinking about doing this now that I've been using the Mark II for the past several weeks. Stay tuned!
--posted by Adam @ Monday, June 14 2004, 21:14 pm PDT
Hi Adam,
You do have some very nice photos. Other than complimenting you about your photography, I am writing to apologize about the late tripping of the shutter. Yes, that was me. :) That was my first time shooting a ballet/jazz/dance performance and I got better next day and later, esp when shooting with the tripod. I didn't realize I was creating a nuisance for atleast some listeners. I guess I was too engrossed in shooting. I wish I had known this at the time. I would have been more careful.
It was nice seeing your photos. Check out some of mine. You might like some of those.
Cheers,
Nitish--posted by Nitish Naharas @ Sunday, June 20 2004, 0:35 am PDT
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