Rapt Productions award winning video design has been described as “evocative,” “striking” and “perfection.” Video Artist, Austin Forbord, is known for his “adroit videography” and for creating rich, textured multi-media landscapes. Mr. Forbord’s video design was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award in 2003 and won the Izzie for visual design in 2007.
Rapt’s team relishes the opportunity to collaborate with dance and theater artists and directors to craft visually stunning designs. We are experts at projection and video flow ensuring that your multi-media productions run seamlessly.
FEATURED IN:
Joe Goode Performance Group
“Stay Together” YBCA June 2006
“Humansville” YBCA June 2007
Robert Moses’ Kin
“Word of Mouth” Cowell Theater, San Francisco February 2002
“Jokes Like That Will Get You Killed” Stanford Lively Arts, December 2007
Rapt performance Group
“The Real Thing” WWDF July 2001
“Family Room” WWDF July 2002
“House” Somarts Cultural Center February 2003 – Nominated for Isadora Duncan Award in Visual Design
“Motion Study for the Grief Cycle” Theater Artaud, July 2005
Contraband/Sara Shelton Mann
“Extravaganza” May 2000
“Survival/Phase I” December 2000
“Monk at the Met: Feast of Souls” June 2001
Deborah Slater Dance Theater
“Hotel of Memories” June 2006
Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Video Design
Stephen Pelton Dance Theater
“September for Sale” May 2004
Kunst-stoff
“As we close their eyes” YBCA February 2006
Liss Fain Dance
“Eclipse” November 2004
Motion Lab
“As Above, So Below” October 2003
Erling Wold
“Pontius Pilate” April 2003
REVIEWS:
“Throughout, Austin Forbord's live videos contributed excellent tonal nuances and a sense of sometimes almost painful intimacy.”
Rita Felciano, San Francisco Bay Guardian
on “Stay Together” Joe Goode Performance Group
“The set is genius. Austin Forbord's videos are perfection. Meanwhile Kronos Quartet veteran Joan Jeanrenaud plays cello on a rolling cart that is pushed around the room. An embarrassment of riches.”
Mark Taylor, KQED Arts & Culture
on “Humansville” Joe Goode Performance Group
“The media projections were expertly executed by Austin Forbord, though at times they distracted from the dancing simply because they were so interesting themselves. They definitely added clarity to the piece as a whole and really solidified what the movement was trying to convey.”
Lisa Claybaugh, CriticalDance.com
on “Word of Mouth” Robert Moses’ Kin
“The evening's first premiere "Eclipse", for which Ms. Fain collaborated with videographer Austin Forbord, was haunting.”
Rita Felciano, DanceViewTimes.com
on “Eclipse” Liss Fain Dance
“Austin Forbord’s video design both challenges and extends the many thematic connotations. Pelton and his collaborators are to be congratulated for bringing "September for Sale" to realization.”
Voice of Dance on “September for sale” Stephen Pelton Dance Theater
“The role of Mann's collaborators should not be underestimated. They understood what she wanted and gave her what she needed. … the suggestive video images by Forbord on three huge screens blew open ODC's cramped performance space.”
Rita Felciano, Dance Magazine
on “Monk at the Met” Contraband/Sara Shelton Mann
“Austin Forbord's Motion Study for the Grief Cycle was one of the evening's simplest, but purest pieces. It posed dancer Jessica Adams in front of a slightly angled screen with a casing in front of it. Its purpose seemed the imposition of an additional framing device.
The live video feed created double perspectives which competed for attention. While the imaged dancer changed size, receded into the background or became partially obstructed, the live performer remained relatively stable. At times the two dancers looked very much alike, at times they couldn't have been more different from each other. When the live dancer performed in a circle, lit only from above, her imaged counterpart almost disintegrated. Maybe the work's most intriguing aspect was the way it posed questions about shifting planes of reality.”
Rita Felciano, DanceViewTimes.com
on “Motion Study for the Grief Cycle” Rapt Performance Group |
