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.

Workshops and Seminars in Dance on the Screen

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

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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

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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.