The Physical TV Company

The Physical TV Company is a multi-award-winning and critically lauded leader in the international dance on screen landscape.  Unbound by conventions, The Physical TV Company develops and produces works within and across the media of dance, film, literature and new media.  Physical TV productions explore original ideas and tell fantastical stories with boundless creativity.  Thought-provoking, engaging and rich in rhythms and images, Physical TV productions are a feast for the senses, intellect and spirit.  Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman, Co-Artistic Directors of The Physical TV Company, make “stories told by the body” - unique integrations of screen and dance arts built on Karen and Richard’s wealth of professional experience in cinema and dance and a sustained and visionary commitment to integrating the two arts.  The result has been an acclaimed and award-winning body of work and the promise of exciting things to come.

Contact for Workshops, Masterclasses, Seminars, Mentoring:

PhysicalTV@bigpond.com

Workshops and Seminars in Dance on the Screen

MOST RECENT: JULY 28-29, 2012
 
Dance Film Masterclass

WITH DR RICHARD JAMES ALLEN
AT AUSTRALIAN FILM TELEVISION AND RADIO SCHOOL (AFTRS),
SUPPORTED BY FORM DANCE PROJECTS:


To register  click here

This intensive masterclass is for choreographers, dancers and filmmakers who are passionate about the dance film genre.

The program will explore the aesthetics of dance for the screen while also providing a practical collaborative experience for industry professionals.

Participants will explore the evolution of dance film from the 20th century through to contemporary screendance practice using the works of internationally recognised leaders. This historical overview will be within the context of the three main sub genres of the art form.

Participants will ‘play’ in the studio during shooting exercises with cameras, dancers and movement, exploring concepts of time, energy, space and gesture in staging and framing, to see what kind of impact they can generate.

The masterclass will focus on editing as a form of choreography and the affective impact of sound in dance film, exploring montage ideas – including collision and flow, timing, pacing and trajectory phrasing.

Suitable for choreographers, dancers and filmmakers at various stages in their careers from emerging (post graduates) to mid-career and established professionals.

To ensure maximum access to state of the art AFTRS facilities and resources as well as in-depth immersion in a collaborative lab-type setting numbers are strictly limited.

The masterclass is facilitated by Dr Richard James Allen (Choreographer/Director/Performer), co-director of the multi-award winning Physical TV Company, which specialises in stories told by the body. Physical TV has produced numerous highly acclaimed and widely screened shorts, a project for mobile phones and the short feature “Thursday's Fictions” (ABC-TV) which was recently reincarnated as a virtual world in Second Life with the support of AFTRS/LAMP. (See www.physicaltv.com.au)

Dates: July 28-29, 2012

Time: 9am-5pm x 2 sessions, 16 hours total

Cost: $495, GST exempt, $445.50 early bird

Location: Australian Film Television and Radio School

AFTRS acknowledges the support of FORM Dance Projects

To register  click here

Read Richard's post-workshop blog post here.

(Workshop photos by Richard James Allen and Catherine Zealand)


RECENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR EDUCATORS TO TAPE OFF AIR AND DOWNLOAD STUDY GUIDES:

Entanglement Theory
("New vitality...absorbing," The New York Times)
A 'mixed reality' dance film
by Richard James Allen, Karen Pearlman and Gary Hayes
Screening next on ABC1 ~ Sun Oct 30, 2011, 3.50pm

- View Trailer

- Download Study Guide

Thursday’s Fictions -
Winner - Enhance TV Atom Award
for Best Experimental Production
"a work of genius" Eye for Film
Broadcast last on ABC1 - write your comments at the ABC Arts Blog

Screened last at SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL June 5, 2010

- Order DVD.
- Enter the immersive 3D world in Second Life
- View 'making of' documentary

The principle artists of The Physical TV Company, Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman, draw on their wealth of experience nationally and internationally in dance, film/video arts, contemporary performance, writing and teaching to offer workshops to tertiary and secondary students and teachers.  These exciting, interactive and information packed sessions are suitable for students, educators or practitioners in dance, media and communications, and theatre.

Modules can be selected individually or in combinations that suit the timetables, facilities and needs of individual institutions.  Duration and scheduling can be adjusted to suit availability of facilities and student’s schedules.

1.    Physical TV and Dance on Screen – a three hour seminar which includes screenings of recent works by The Physical TV Company, discussion by Pearlman and Allen of how individual works were made, what dance on screen is, and how the company operates.
2.    The Craft of Dance on Screen  - a two-day workshop which includes four separate modules, each focussed on a different area of dance for the screen.  These include the a) Physical TV and Dance on Screen overview seminar,
b) A workshop on Writing and Choreographing dance for the screen,
c) A workshop on Directing and Cinematography for dance on the screen,
d) A workshop on Editing and Sound for dance on the screen.
3.    Making Dance on Screen – a two-week intensive that incorporates The Craft of Dance on Screen series and guides the students through the actual creation of their own short dance for the screen from beginning to end.