White Bird Featherless
  • Title: White Bird Featherless
  • Date: 2nd June 2008
  • Summary: Video copy of Bedford Interactive's Pilot Interactive Video Laser Disc, 'To demonstrate the exciting potential of interactive video to develop and deepen appreciation of Siobhan Davies' choreography through analysis of excerpts from White Bird Featherless'. The original laser disc requires a compatible player to make use of the embedded functionality. Bedford Interactive comprises two seperate companies, B.I. Research, a non-profit making company that develops Resources for Dance Teachers, and B.I. Productions which publishes those resources.
  • Work: Pilot Laser Disc
  • Choreographer: Siobhan Davies
  • Dancer: Gill Clarke, Paul Douglas, Sean Feldman, Jeremy James, Elizabeth Old, Deborah Saxon
  • Music: Gerald Barry
  • Music Comments: By arrangement with Oxford University Press.
    The score consists of three separate pieces, TRIORCHIC BLUES, (piano), FIVE CHORALES (two pianos), and WATER PARTED, (counter-tenor/mezzo soprano and piano).
    Text for WATER PARTED by Vincent Deane.
  • Musicians: Andrew Ball (piano), Nicholas Clapton (countertenor), Catherine Edwards (piano)
  • Lighting Design: Peter Mumford
  • Costume Designer: Antony McDonald
  • Costume Maker: Sasha Keir
  • Author: Content: Jacqueline Smith-Autard (assisted by Sarah Rubidge for SDDC); Technical: Jim Schofield
  • Editor: Nigel Gourley
  • Other TV/Film/Radio Credits: Performance footage from the Dancelines production for BBC, produced and directed by Peter Mumford
  • Analysis: None.
  • Production Date Original: 07/09/1994
  • Production Date - SDD: 2nd June 2008
  • Format - Original: VHS
  • Format SDD: .mpeg2
  • Duration: 27mins
  • Web Links: http://www.dance-interactive.com
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