SAM’S WORLD:

a Celebration of the Art of Sam Maitin

12 minutes

DIRECTION/CHOREOGRAPHY/CAMERA/EDITING: Susannah Newman ANIMATION/EDITING: Charles Bandla
ARTWORK: Sam Maitin
DANCERS: Jennifer Collins, Philip Colucci, Kate Jordan, Tara Pasquarello and Sabatino Verlezza

COMPOSER: Jacques Ibert

MUSICIANS: Sue Ann Kahn with Lauren Goldstein, Susan Jolles, David Krakauer, Eleanor Lawrence, Curtis Macomber, Peggy Schecter, Rie Schmidt and Andrew Willis
ROTOSCOPE ARTISTS: Charles Bandla, Brian Baldwin, Tanya Gizzarelli, James Going, Amy Kawabata, Nathan Sawyer, Carl Staiger, Ryan Suits and Laura Wieme

SAM’S WORLD is a screen dance that celebrates the color-saturated collages of renowned artist/humanist, Sam Maitin. Dancers both interact with individual Maitin shapes and find themselves embedded inside the art as they "PLAY", "JOURNEY" through life, and "FLY" through time. Choreography was shot using both hand-held and head cameras. Movement phrases and art were rotoscoped, composited, animated, and then synced to Ibert’s chamber pieces for flute played by Sue Ann Kahn (daughter of architect, Louis Kahn, a colleague of Maitin). Editors used Final Cut, TV Paint and Adobe After Effects software applications.