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| Blog Name: |
Escape to the Music |
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http://www.silverphoenixllc.com/escape2/ |
| Language: |
English |
| Topics: |
Dance, Film, Documentary |
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See what happens when a nature and wildlife filmmaker spends two years documenting a professional dance team and the women who created it.
Armed with nothing more than a well used boom-box and the determination to fulfill her life long dream, Tiffany Kuehl created a professional dance team that has wowed crowds across the country. Join independent filmmaker Kevin J Railsback as he documents the life of this remarkable woman and the dancers she inspires. |
| Popularity: |
22 Followers |
Intensity. Laughter. Tears.
Intensity. Laughter. Tears. A CR Spirits practice can be all the above.
But whenever I think of practices, I think back to my days playing football in Maryland or basketball in Iowa. It was all business. You suited up, you hit the field or court and you practiced till you dropped then you got up and practiced some more. Make a mistake on the football field, you run a quarter mile. Make a mistake on the basketball court, you run a suicide.
The coaches weren’
Why two and not one?
I was talking to another filmmaker in LA last week, catching up on projects we were currently working on.
They were kind of surprised when I mentioned that I was starting my second year of filming Tiffany and the Spirits. The wanted to know why I was taking so long to film a “year in the life” type of documentary.
The way most documentaries work is you spend a lot of your time up front doing research and planning as much as possible for the upcoming shooting.
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Favorite Performance
When you’re a CR Spirit, you never know where or when you’ll be doing a performance.
Michelle talks about her favorite performance and how it came about.
She also give me my new catch phrase I will use from now on whenever I’m out of state and see or do something “awesome.”
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A Rare Sight
This is something most of you will never see, footage of the Spirits during practice.
Every now and then I shoot some slow motion footage of the team because I love the way slow-motion looks. I found that no matter what routine they were performing, you could cut the footage to just about any music and it would work. So, I showed it to Tiffany just to show her what I was goofing around with.
Well, she loved it. In fact, she was crying she loved it so much. Course, that perplexed me a little b
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