Backhausdance With(in) OCMA / MESH (2021)
Choreographed and Directed by Jennifer Backhaus
Based on the exhibition Alexandra Grant: Telepathy is One Step Further Than Empathy
Music: Himitsu by Lama House
Director: Jennifer Backhaus
Assistant Director: Adrien Padilla
Director of Photography: Chris Emerick
Camera Operator: Max Parada
Gaffer: Greg Zajack
Running Time: 8 minutes
Immerse yourself in this moving exploration of human connection and empathy created by choreographer Jennifer Backhaus in collaboration with Backhausdance dancers. Based on the exhibition Alexandra Grant: Telepathy is One Step Further Than Empathy, the dancers move in duets fraught with conflict, ultimately finding connection and understanding with each other. A movement response captured and filmed in the OCMA galleries, the performance captures the dynamic interplay between contemporary dance and visual art.
Videography and film production by Chris Emerick and Paragon Media.
g r o u n d e d . (2020)
Choreographed and Directed by Jennifer Backhaus
Music: Limestone and Felt by Caroline Shaw
Director: Jennifer Backhaus
Camera / Editor: Chris Emerick and Mason Crowe
Running Time: 9 minutes
Filmed entirely on location outdoors in our autumnal, coastal landscape of the Orange County Back Bay in Newport Beach, CA, this visually-captivating artistic experience enables you to follow along the trails and pathways with each of our ten dancers as they express and interpret their individual spaces through solos, moving in the splendor of different natural settings and being grounded in the textures of the earth, all in a single day.
Presented in close collaboration with Chris Emerick and Paragon Media