We bring together creative insight with technical expertise to deliver start-to-fi. Some fussier audience members might not be thrilled that they have to stand for certain segments of the show, and for one segment even have to stand outside by the chilly waters of the Bay. Rapt Productions is a team of creatives specialized in dance filmmaking, documentary filmmaking, and branded content. But there are so many gasp-inducing moments and astonishingly risky moves performed on rafters, fire escapes and large-scale, built-in, site-specific props that you can’t help but lost in amazement.Īrtistically, Grace and Delia Are Gone is a powerhouse. Some abstract portions of the show might not make much sense to people who don’t watch a ton of dance. The dancers’ movements are eerily hypnotic, and their wall-walking is on par with Spider-Man. In that sense, it’s reminiscent of an old-style haunted house attraction - though maybe a haunted house as conceived by Werner Herzog and Rebecca Solnit. This show’s scenes take place in various different parts of the venue, and segments of the audience see different scenes at different times. Rapt Productions brings together creative insight with technical expertise to deliver start-to finish video and photography services, specializing in the performing arts. The site-specific magic of this piece manifests with daring suspension stunts in starkly designed sets with the sight of ships floating through the San Francisco Bay in the site’s background. About Rapt Productions Video Production company in San Francisco, United States. Grace and Delia Are Gone successfully takes you into the headspace of a woman thinking “My husband beats me and might kill me tonight”, and does so on a former military base. Dancers bounce and rappel off walls both indoor and out, perform daring acrobatic maneuvers, manipulate weights and pulleys to keep them afloat, all while remaining in theatrical character in a work that addresses some pretty brutal subject matter.įlyaway Productions, who have been doing these apparatus-based dance performances with social justice themes for the last 20 years, takes over several different rooms and spaces at the Firehouse at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture for this piece. But this improbable concept achieves great heights in Grace and Delia Are Gone, a new dance piece from Flyaway Productions that premiered Thursday night at the Fort Mason Firehouse. You may not expect an acrobatic, circus-style aerial performance to explore the topic of violence against women. To learn more about Clare Schweitzer click here. She is also a co-host on Frameform, a podcast that discusses dance and film. She currently works as a Development/Production Associate with Dance Film SF (Formerly the San Francisco Dance Film Festival) and as a videographer/editor for Rapt Productions. Thematically, she is interested in exploring universal predicaments through intimate and often humorous frames.īased in the San Francisco Bay Area, Clare has performed with groups such as Kinetech, Garrett+Moulton and Sarah Berges Dance. What an amazing company We went to a High Life. Written April 10, 2020Has experienced HighLife Productionss work. She composes the choreography through the process of editing with a focus on rhythm and the generation of meaning through the juxtaposition of images. from RAPT recommends HighLife Productions. RAPT was founded by Chef-Owner Andrew Maturana and specializes in elevated New American cooking, culinary cocktail craft and experiential event production. She uses the camera as a dancer in the work rather than a documenter and generate the on screen choreography through improvisational scores with other movers present.
In 2014, Clare moved to London to begin her postgraduate studies as a part of EDge, the repertory company associated with the London Contemporary Dance School, and had the opportunity to tour with the company around the UK and internationally in countries such as Sweden, Switzerland, France, Portugal and Austria.Ĭlare is a practitioner and researcher of Screendance, an artistic practice that combines the languages of dance and film to create a work that is not possible in a live setting.
in Dance and Mathematics cum laude with high honors. Clare Schweitzer, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, received her early training in ballet, and continued her dance training at Mount Holyoke College, where she graduated in 2012 with a B.A.