Firestarter marks Bangarra Dance Theatre’s 30th anniversary. Taking us through Bangarra’s birth and spectacular growth, this feature documentary recognises its founders and tells the story of how three young Aboriginal brothers — Stephen, David and Russell Page — turned the newly born dance group into a First Nations cultural powerhouse.

Review: The Guardian    
 
 

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1) Ochres explained & showcased (circa 1994)
First performed in 1994, OCHRES became a watershed production for Bangarra leading to sell out shows around the country. For its 21st anniversary return season in 2015, Bangarra’s former Artistic Director Stephen Page reimagined this iconic work that revealed Bangarra to the world for the company’s debut season at Carriageworks in Redfern.

In all its forms and colours, ochre is essential to the life of Aboriginal communities. This four-part contemporary dance work – yellow, black, red and white – is a portrayal of each colour of this earthy substance, its myriad of purposes and the spiritual significance to Aboriginal people.Teachers’ Resource.
Screened on Imagine TV Series

2) FIRESTARTER: the story of Bangarra – full documentary as seen on BBC

3) Mooggrah – part of Sydney Dance Company’s Shakespeare Dances (1991)

4) Ninni Clips (1992 – TVC base or broadcast within SBS TV Imagine series)

Featured Video (previous page): Commercial base (Paganini/Tognetti – Caprice on Caprices)

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1) Commercial base (Grieg String Quartet No.1)

2) ACO Footage (at 1 min 47) featuring in Vivid Live 2014

3) Commercial base (Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings)

4) ACO Tour promo video: Richard Tognetti presents ACO2 & Daniel Muller-Schott

5) ACO Tour promo video: Andreas Scholl sings Vivaldi

6) ACO Tour promo video: Brahms 4 & Steven Isserlis

7) ACO Tour promo video: Brandenburg Concertos

Full-length works have been edited and remastered: Shades of Gray, Berlin with iOTA, Tivoli, Song of the Night, Daphnis and Chloé, Free Radicals, Grand, Synergy with Synergy,  Air And Other invisible Forces, Salome, Rumours, Poppy, Berlin with Iva Davies, Kraanerg, Nearly Beloved, Mythologia, Sheherazade, Some Rooms (to name a few…)

Producer/director/editor/web architect: Philippe Charluet

More on the Collection        Also see listing of filmed Dance Works

Credits Tab above lists the works we have filmed over the years (with Sydney Dance Company)

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1) Mythologia Promo

2) Ellipse Promo

3) Berlin* (with iOTA)

4) GRAND* Promotional reel

5) Synergy with Synergy* (excerpt from Body of Work, not the remastered SBS Masterpiece original)

6) Mourned By The Wind * (a section of ‘Air And Other Invisible Forces‘ produced for the BBC)

7) The Early Days* (film created for Body of Work Gala performance at the Sydney Opera House, celebrating the dancers of the Sydney Dance Company in its early days, the European tours and finishing with an homage to the dear friends who have left us)

8) Salome* promotional reel

In addition to the many Television Specials we produced, extensive sections from GRAND, TIVOLI, GLIMPSES, KRAANERG, NEARLY BELOVED, SOME ROOMS and OLD FRIENDS NEW FRIENDS are featured in various ABC and SBS documentaries. To name a few:
The Closet Tales of Australian Fashion: Akira Isogawa;
Tivoli: the Making of a Dance Musical*;
You Owe Me: Sir Robert Helpmann;
Sydney Dance Paris*; 
Astonish Me: Graeme Murphy;
Old Friends New Friends*;
(* produced/ directed by Philippe Charluet)

Video producer/ director/ cinematographer: Philippe Charluet

Featured Video  (previous page): We Unfold

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1) 6 Breaths trailer

2) LANDforms

3) 360 Degrees

4) Soledad

5) Irony of Fate

6) 6 Breaths excerpt

Graeme Murphy AO and Janet Vernon AM collaborate with Tasmania’s Mature Artist Dance Experience (MADE) to bring to the stage a dance theatre work like no other.

Spoken word, song, soundscape, installation, costume and machine are used to create an innovative theatrical experience that embroiders together a tale inspired by photographs from ensemble members in their “best dress”. The Frock is a patchwork of personal recollection and aspiration that expands on ideas of how Australians lived, have loved, why they dance and what makes their hearts sing.

Featured video: A poem in pictures from the show, written by Graeme Murphy (who introduces)

Video Tabs above: a 15 min promo of the show

Review – Program

A 60 min video by Philippe Charluet on Seven Impossible Pieces for Four Dancers , a collaboration between Australian Dance Artists (ADA) and renowned sculptor and installation artist Ken Unsworth. Anca Frankenhaeuser, Patrick Harding-Irmer Anca, Susan Barling and Ross Philip with ADA founder and dance educator Norman Hall, responded to Ken’s request to make this work “pure dance“ to challenging music commissioned from Jonathan Cooper and beautifully played by himself, Claire Edwardes, Genevieve Lang, Jason Noble, James Nightingale & James Wannan.

Each section magically lit by Roderick van Gelder and costumed by Emma Kingsbury.

Review

Featured Video: Seven Impossible Pieces for Four Dancers’ Excerpts trailer – 12 min

Above Video Tabs: Seven Impossible Pieces for Four Dancers’ last movement in full – 9 min AND
Departure Trailer – 4 min (does not include Never Ever large operatic section, written by Ken Unsworth and sung by Clive Birch and Rioghnach Wegrecka seen in the photo below)

DEPARTURES (2015)

Our 82min video, Departures is a dance theatre experience full of extraordinary, surreal imagery with the choreography created in response to the music and the strange and wonderful Ken Unsworth’s sculptural creations.

Review

Sydney Dance Company farewells their 31 year Artistic Directors, Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon, with a multi-camera broadcast recording of this Gala Performance, held at the Sydney Theatre Royal. Hosted by former Prime minister Hon. Paul Keating, this performance takes viewers on an emotional roller-coaster ride through some of the most memorable highlights of their repertoire. It features a galaxy of Australian musical stars, all long time collaborators of Graeme and Janet, including Geraldine Turner, Iva Davies and iOTA.

Featured Video: Ever After Ever television special – trailer

“Weather is like choreography; it’s so kinetic, it’s about movement and displacement of air, it has limitless possibilities for dance” (Lucy Guerin, The Age, 2012)

Performed at the Theatre de La Ville in Paris, 2015

Over the years, we have filmed many of Lucy Guerin’s works including: Untrained (60 min), Bodyparts: Zero (30 min) and for Michelle Mahrer Productions, Corridor (60 min), Structure and Sadness (60 min) and Aether (60 min)

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Weather (5 min promo + full-length program)

Untrained (promo we have filmed)

Excerpts from Structure & Sadness + Aether + Corridor (additional cinematography)

You can also see a lot of our work within Lucy Guerin Inc’s Company Trailer

Over the years, we have filmed many of Meryl’s works including: Inuk (90 min), Inuk 2 (90 min), Possessed (18 min) Rasa (88 min), Songs with Mara (26 min), Aurora (21 min), Two Feet (92 min), Nuti & Kikimora (30 min each) as well as making a range of promotional video, TV documentaries and commercials.

See also the documentary Wild Swans: Behind the Scenes, produced and directed for ABC TV by Philippe Charluet

 
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1) Excerpts from POSSESSED
(filmed at the Peter Lehmann Winery in the Barossa Valley, Sth Australia. Live music by the Ballanescu Quartet)
2) INUK2 for the Sydney Dance Company
3) AURORA – Artbreak for Imagine TV series
4) VX18504 – short excerpt

BARRY HUMPHRIES’ WEIMAR CABARET
This concert was filmed with six cameras at the Hamer Hall in Melbourne. Acclaimed Barry Humphries curates, presents and performs with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the degenerate music of Berlin’s Weimar Republic (1920s-1930s), including jazz, cabaret, tango and Broadway-musical style pieces. The hedonistic partying and social revolution of this era is re-awakened in this full-throttle concert featuring transgressive cabaret sensation Meow Meow

Also performed in London, Edinburgh and the United States…

Guardian review               Printed Program

KREUTZER VS. KREUTZER

100 min DVD featuring a rich Australian Chamber Orchestra’s concert combined with a theatre play inspired by Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata, filmed at the Melbourne Town Hall (various clips also delivered for online promotion & excerpt shown on ABC Inside Business story).

Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director /Lead Violin)

Samuel West (Actor)   -   Robin McLeavy (Actor)

Laura Wade (Playwright)   -   Sarah Giles (Play Director)

For both videos, Producer/Director/Editor: Philippe Charluet

Front Video:

An Hommage to Barry Humphries (performing with Meow Meow in Weimar Cabaret)

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1) ‘If I could Wish for Something’ – WEIMAR CABARET

2) Beethoven ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ – Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer

3) Janacek String Quartet No.1, “The Kreutzer Sonata” – Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer

4) Meow Meow sings ‘Surabaya Johnny’ – WEIMAR CABARET

5) Trailer advertising WEIMAR CABARET