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Identity in Motion: Karen Pearlman

a dance documentary by Martha Goddard

 

Log Line:
What happens when an innovative contemporary dancer
decides to become an academic authority in editing?



Character Synopsis:
Karen Pearlman is a dynamic, intuitive authority on rhythm and life.  She is about to publish her first book, Cutting Rhythms after kicking some impressive academic goals with a PHD in creative arts and two MA’s in editing and media production.  She runs a successful production company and lectures at Australia’s leading film schools, so one may assume Karen’s history was mentally orientated and university bound.  However, Google her name and you’ll realize that Karen Pearlman was a sensation in dance.  For fifteen years she has been on the cutting edge of innovate contemporary dance, with her husband Richard James Allen. Together they have toured extensively with much acclaim and worldwide attention.  Looking back over early 80’s archives, Karen’s productions evolve from floor-based to wall-based with the introduction of a screen and incorporated projections: “There are arbitrary divisions between theatre and dance, we blend the two because life is blended.”  This is a woman so wonderfully devoted to blending life and dance that she performed on stage at nine months pregnant in a pink silk dress.

So why is Karen now a self-proclaimed retired dancer?  Is that the price of academia?  Or motherhood?  What’s next?
This documentary explores the life story of Karen Pearlman who now represents a contemporary bridge between dance for the stage and editing for the screen.




Screenings:
Identity in Motion: Karen Pearlman was first screened at the Book Launch
of Dr Karen Pearlman's Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit (Focal Press, 2009)
at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney on May 14, 2009.
It premiered at the 2009 World of Women (WOW) Film Festival,
was screened at the 2010 Dungog Film Festival
and selected for "We Speak, Here", Culture Unplugged Studios' online film festival.




Crew:
Director: Martha Goddard
Choreographers: Karen Pearlman and Richard James Allen

Director of Photography: Chris Miles
Editor: Gwen Sputore
Sound Recordist: Linda Burt
Sound Designer: Michelle Child
Composer: Paul Kopetko
Steadycam: Robert Morton
Special Thanks:
Ruth Cullen,
Susan Lambert,
Sam Allen & Jaz Allen,
Queen St Studios,
The Physical TV Company,
Tasdance,
That Was Fast
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