Peter Sparling - Current Work Entries http://www.petersparling.com/index.php en petespar@umich.edu Copyright 2012 2012-02-10T12:21:24+00:00 Uptown/Detroit Independent Film Festival http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/uptown_detroit_independent_film_festival/ http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/uptown_detroit_independent_film_festival/#When:12:21:24Z Just released!  “Patient Spider", has been selected for screening at the 2012 Uptown / Detroit Independent Film Festival and is in Award consideration for this year's Michigan Film Award Competition. This year our festival received a record number of submissions from all over the world, so competition was especially tough.  The festival will take…

]]> 2012-02-10T12:21:24+00:00 2012 Update: Man in the Moon http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/2012_update_man_in_the_moon/ http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/2012_update_man_in_the_moon/#When:12:12:47Z This little video was made in the U-M Duderstadt Video Studio by stretching our greenscreen fabric across the floor, training a special (pool of circular light) on it and shooting it from a high angle. I stepped into the light and the rest was improvisation on a theme of isolation? Exile? One last moment in the spotlight? When I discovered a…

]]> 2012-02-10T12:12:47+00:00 2012 Update: Forest Through the Trees http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/2012_update_forest_through_the_trees/ http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/2012_update_forest_through_the_trees/#When:12:06:12Z Forest Through the Trees (World Premiere-Power Center, Ann Arbor, MI Feb. 2-5, 2012)

Choreography by Peter Sparling (with the assistance of the cast in entrance to “Climate Change”)

Music by Frank Pahl: from Music for Architecture; Thollem McDonas: from I’ll Meet You Halfway Out In The Middle Of It All

Video by Peter Sparling; “Climate Change”…

]]> 2012-02-10T12:06:12+00:00 Fall 2011 Update http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/fall_2011_update/ http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/fall_2011_update/#When:14:28:27Z CODA Oslo International Dance Festival: Guest teacher of Graham Technique, Nov. 17-22
Peter Sparling/Screendance: New & Recent Works, Nov. 3
UM Art & Design Works:Detroit Dec. 3-30: Perspectives of Pain: black body & In Memorium: Shirley Verrett
DANCE:FILMS in Edinburgh: Babel & Patient Spider
Ballet Review: Dance reviews in last 5 issues (no…

]]> 2011-10-27T14:28:27+00:00 Aquaman 1/Photo & Acrylics, August, 2011 http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/aquaman_1_photo_acrylics_august_2011/ http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/aquaman_1_photo_acrylics_august_2011/#When:23:30:15Z I'm thrilled to share a brief report on a recent "total immersion" in photography of figures submerged under water. This rough draft of a possible preface to a book will suffice. 
I'm including five of the photos (of a total of 2,000!) by Ernestine Ruben... and five recent paintings I did in acrylic paint. These are my maiden voyage into the realm…

]]> 2011-09-07T23:30:15+00:00 Aquaman/Acrylic 1 http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/aquaman_acrylic_1/ http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/aquaman_acrylic_1/#When:22:47:38Z 2011-09-07T22:47:38+00:00 Aquaman 2 http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/aquaman_acrylic/ http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/aquaman_acrylic/#When:22:21:37Z 2011-09-07T22:21:37+00:00 Aquaman/Acrylic 2 http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/aquaman_acrylic_2/ http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/aquaman_acrylic_2/#When:22:29:26Z 2011-09-06T22:29:26+00:00 Aquaman 3 http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/aquaman_acrylic_3/ http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/aquaman_acrylic_3/#When:22:34:54Z 2011-09-05T22:34:54+00:00 Aquaman/Acrylic 3 http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/aquaman_3/ http://www.petersparling.com/current_work/post/aquaman_3/#When:22:31:11Z 2011-09-05T22:31:11+00:00