DVD's: Drama

Written by Mel Brooks ; produced by Sidney Glazier ; directed by Mel Brooks

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Antony Gormley, Szymon Brzóska with monks from the Shaolin Temple

In preparation for a Broadway musical, a group of aspiring stage performers is put through their paces by a veteran stage director using some singular techniques.

Executive producers: Paul Bullock, Douglas Cummins, Alistair Spalding ; director: Deborah May.

Vandekeybus 2006

Produced and directed by Lucille Rhodes and Margaret Murphy 1991

Written, produced and directed by Renata Celichowska 2000

Contemporary Arts Media 2006

Acting lessons Inc., 2008

Directed by G. H Powers

Steve Paxton 2008

Written and directed by Andrea Gibbs 2010

Ludus Dance Company

Martha Centre for Contemporary Dance 2006

Directed by Dave Wilson

Produced by H.R. Poindexter

Video Artists International in co-operation with CBC 2002

Produced and directed by Harvey Hart

Contemporary Arts Media 2009

Contemporary Arts Media 2006

Produced and directed by Thomas Grimm 2010

Arts Documentation Unit 2010

Produced by Joanna Merlin 2007

A compilation of 3 dance films 2007

A collection of dance films 2003

A film by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker 2005

Director Tony Palmer's in-depth profile of the South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director Athol Fugard. In celebration of his 80th birthday, the film looks back at the life and work of the man whose political plays exposed the reality of life during the apartheid era to a worldwide audience

2012

An introductory guide to theatrical blocking for novice directors, as taught by drama professor Michael Joyce

An introduction to a number of the elements that comprise the basis of the Cunningham technique for dancers as given in the Westbeth Studio in New York City

Explores the process of creating an original piece of drama, examining the methodologies used by such international theater companies as Goat Island, Forced Entertainment, and Sankai Juku.

This disc contains a full performance of Overdrive and a detailed breakdown of the choreography by Richard Alston with demonstrations by dancers in the studio. 

 Produced, directed and written by Kathryn Sullivan

Thembekwayo, Vusi

Pina Bausch, Josephine Ann Endicott, Bénédicte Billiet

 Artistic direction, choreography and performance, Akram Khan ; co-produced by Sadler's Wells, Les Nuits de Fourviere

A film by Frederick Wiseman

Directed by Bert Shapiro 2010

A DV8 Films production for the BBC 2007

Serge Tampalini 2009

Contemporary Arts Media

Educational Video Network 2004

Produced by Brad Martin

Directed by Carlo Rodriguez

Ludus Dance Company 2006

Coproduced by Danmark's Radio and RM Arts 1989

Produced and directed by Thomas Grimm

Cirque du Soleil and the Montreal International Jazz Festival 2005

A Conte IV production

A dance-opera by Pina Bausch 2009

By Christopher W. Gluck

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan 2000

Produced by Colin Wilson

Jeanette Ginslov 2006

DVC Inc., 1989

Contemporary Arts Media 2005

Arnie Zane Dance Co. 2004

Universal Studios 1999

Choreography by Lin Hwai-Min 2006

Music by John Cage

Directed by Ross MacGibbon

Produced by Sophie Gardiner 2007

Produced by Jurgen Klimmeck and Hjordis Steiner 2005

"Baby explodes the metaphor of "time passing" into a dynamic, contemporary work of art. Using choreography to process information, O'Connor reveals his inimitable and penetrating aesthetic."

R. Scott Lank, Acting Professor at the University of Evansville, guides a group of acting students through the process of realistic character development. Discusses aspects such as script analysis, physical work, vocal work, emotional work, and combining these elements.

The story concerns Selma (Bjork), a Czech immigrant living in 1964 Washington State with her 12-year-old son, Gene (Vladan Kostic). On the verge of blindness, Selma spends her days working in a factory, as well as performing other odd jobs, in order to save up enough money to pay for an operation that will cure Gene of the same disease

Choreographed by Karole Armitage

Based on the stage play by Joseph Stein

The life and career of Anna Sokolow, traced through photos and film clips. Includes footage of studio work with a dancer for Sokolow's work, Rooms, and interviews with Sokolow.

Director of Research, Valerie Preston-Dunlop ; produced by Luis Espana for Spiritlevel

Akram Khan, dancer

 Screenplay by Michael Weller ; produced by Lester Persky and Michael Butler ; directed by Milos Forman

20th Century musicals

Chroma ; Infra ; Limen / The Royal Ballet

Directed, written and produced by Michael Craig

First Physical productions 2006

Choreographer, Gary Gordon

Directed for television by Allen M. Auld

Directed by Michel Duchesne 1997

New Yorker Video 2007

Film manufacturers Inc.,

DVC Inc. 2004

Ludus Dance Company 2000

Directed by Deborah Barnard

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005

A Cross Performance Production 2007

Conceived, choreographed and directed by Ralph Lemon

Produced by Bernhard Fleischer 2001

Directed by Thomas Grimm

Insight Media 2007

Produced by Jean Sabatine 1986

Directed and edited by David Hodge

A Richard Coldman production for SJDC 2005

Choreographer/Artictic director Lin Hwai-Min 2001

Produced by DV8 Films and Channel 4 Television 2006

Conceived and directed by Lloyd Newson

Produced and directed by Douglas Rosenberg 1996

Stravinsky, Rambert Dance Company 1988

"The comprehensive cinematic interpretation of Beckett's plays."

In preparation for a Broadway musical, a group of aspiring stage performers is put through their paces by a veteran stage director using some singular techniques

Connect transfer II was commissioned by the American Dance Festival ... June, 2008

Stephen Petronio Company 2009

"Chronicles the 1968 creation and 2004 revival of Anna Sokolow's Steps of Silence. It includes narration by Linda Smith, film footage of a 1970 lecture-demonstration by Sokolow, rehearsal photographs from 1968, motion-capture data of specific phrases of the dance, and interviews with original cast members."