These videos were filmed and edited by Carla Kimball in collaborations with choreographers and dancers. Follow this link to view my photography galleries.

The Making of a Pandemic Dance Film

Creating a dance production with 40 performers during the Pandemic presented a unique set of creative challenges.

ablutions

In response to a call from the Vermont Dance Alliance for videos on the theme of Water, Marie Fourcaut ventured out on a spring day to experience the bracing cold of a snow melt stream as a cleansing ritual.

Trailer_Covid_Poem_Rope.mp4

Introduction to a documentary showing how the pandemic had impacted the creative process of a choreographer (Elizabeth Kurylo), a performer (Marie Fourcaut) and a videographer (Carla Kimball) as they collaborated, and how they discovered new opportunities.

Memories in Solitude

This video is a movement reflection with Marie Fourcaut (and other dancers) of Carla Kimball's photography exhibit entitled "Solitude" at the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH during the early pandemic months in 2020.

Shifting Terrain

Interview with choreographer Kate Gamble about her production in Lyman Park, White River Junction, VT in late summer 2020.

Carla spent most of 2021 collaborating with Peggy Brightman, choreographer, to produce a five act film entitled Our Voices, Bodies Rising, as a dedication to Ruth Bader Ginsberg and celebrating a centennial of women’s suffrage in poetry and dance.  This film is a new and unique approach to filming dance guided by Pandemic restrictions, blending poetry and dance with music, created, performed and created by some 40 local participants ( ages 6 to 80’s) using smart-phone videos and recordings. Stay tuned for future showings of the film by subscribing to our newsletter.   The documentary “The Making of a Pandemic Dance Film” explores the unique challenges faced by the choreographer, filmmaker and performers in the creation of Our Voices, Bodies Rising.

Other video shorts that I’ve produced.

Ash Tree Lament

The emerald ash bore is making its way through Vermont. My home is surrounded by ash trees that for now are vibrant and alive. I mourn the possibility of their passing. Music by Alek Deva titled Elegy.

Meditations on a flowing stream

Here are a series of clips below and just above a racing snow melt stream in Spring.

WaterWays

Taken at water level, this photo captures a rushing stream as it makes its way down a waterfall.