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http://greatlengths2012.org.uk/The first people a visitor to the Olympic Park would encounter, once you have passed through security, are the bus drivers. Every site or office staff working on the park relies on the team of thirty bus drivers to ferry them to their place of work, and without them nothing could function. Sam [Semra Yusuf] is a Turkish Cypriot woman, resident in Newham, funded by the Olympic Apprentice Scheme to get her bus licence, and also a passionate long distance swimmer. On 12 August 2011 Sam swam the length of the bus route she normally drives, in the newly completed Olympic pool – a distance of 1,270 metres.This is an excerpt from the resulting film documenting that Olympic swim, as well as her daily routine, her work, colleagues and the building of the pool itself. It is an insight into the workings of the park from the perspective of one individual.FILM PRODUCED BYNEVILLE GABIE & DAN FARBEROFFDIRECTED BYDAN FARBEROFFNEVILLE GABIEA PROJECT BY NEVILLE GABIE, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE ON THE OLYMPIC PARKAPPEARANCE:SEMRA 'SAM' YUSUFTOM KAKAYIRERAJA TANVEERFAWAD ALIBINAK SHALADARLINGTON GREENAWAYNEVILLE CUNNINGHAMMAGDY RAFLAMAVIS MENSAHJOHN ANDERSONKEVIN NUNKOOMIKE ELLIOTTOLIVER CAMPBELLALFIE PHILLIPSLORRAINE MARTINSWITH THANKS TO:ADRIANA MARQUESSARAH WEIRCLAIRE GEVAUXSAM WILKINSONSARAH BUDDSTUART FRASERIAN CROCKFORDMATTHEW BURKETTAND TO ALL THE OLYMPIC PARK BUS DRIVERSFILMING:CAMERA (DV)NEVILLE GABIECAMERA (HD)DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY / 1ST CAMERADAN FARBEROFF2ND CAMERA / STEADYCAMTIM DOLLIMORE3RD CAMERA / CRANEDARREN PERRYEQUIPMENT HIRE & TECHNICAL SUPPORTTHE MEDIA WORKSHOPCOMMISSIONED BY THE ODASUPPORTED BYTHE OLYMPIC DELIVERY AUTHORITYARTS COUNCIL ENGLANDINSITE ARTS© 2011 Neville Gabie & Dan Farberoff

A short excerpt from WoodNymph, part of the Muse video installation series by Dan Farberoff.Dancer: Ruth Cross.

Short film produced by students at the Dance, Camera, Action two day workshop as part of the Cornwall International Film Festival 2009. Workshop led by Dan Farberoff and Becky Edmunds.

Screening at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall with live accompaniment by composer Errollyn Wallen, following a 5 star reviewed UK tour with the Henri Oguike Dance Company. “astonishing … exquisite slow-motion … executed with an appositely otherworldly grace.” The TelegraphFor more information about FALLING see: http://fallinginspace.blogspot.com/

’Luminessence’ is a state-of-the-art performance, bringing together dance and video, through the use of innovative video projection technology. It was directed by Devon-based multimedia artist Dan Farberoff and choreographer Julia Clarke. Choreographed for three dancers, and with music by local composer Michael Neil, it was premiered in June 2006 at the Dartington College of Arts. This piece is an edited show-reel, containing imagery from the performance and the process of development leading to it.

A fresh HD cut of FALLING - dance film by director Dan Farberoff, together with composer Errollyn Wallen, choreographer Henri Oguike, and NASA astronaut Steve MacLean. The film was originally commissioned in 2008 by Channel 4, ABC, Arts Council England and Australia Council for the Arts, and was selected by the prestigious International Festival of Audiovisual Programs (FIPA), as well as for Barcelona's Videodansa International Prize.Astronaut Steve MacLean’s journal entries, following his spacewalk on Atlantis shuttle mission STS-115, served as inspiration for the film, which sets-out to encapsulate a sense of falling without ground, and applies this astronaut’s heightened perception to show how all of us are, in effect, space-walking/falling to Earth in every moment. Director Dan Farberoff and choreographer Henri Oguike worked together to develop the choreography and camera work that would allow them to convey the loss of gravity, of perspective and of orientation; the uncertainty of direction; the loss of ground and the shifting sense of time whilst in space. Dancers Laura Peña Nuñez and Nuno Campos were coached in the use of trampolines, in falling from great height and in aerial work, enduring long days of clinging to wires, and being continuously dropped and crash-landed. The dancers interact very closely in mid air, with great precision, to produce the eloquent, split-second moments of tenderness in the film, captured in extreme slow motion.© 2008 MJW Productions