Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet / Seeds of Rain / Philip Glass / Zbynek Mateju (excerpts 2023) 4K

Mark Bowen: Video Production 2023 / Scott Toler Collins Cinematography
Raiford Rogers: Director-Choreographer
Lisa Gillespie: Asst to the Choreographer
Mike Nava: Painting Progressions
John A. Garofalo: Lighting Design

Dancers: Sadie Black, Bobby Briscoe, Joshua Brown, McKenize Byrne,
Laura Chachich, Lilly Fife, Lester Gonzalez, Anna Jacobs, Hanna Keene,
Tate Lee, Tetyana Martyanova, Santiago Paniagua, Elise Pekarek,
Jasmine Perry, Lucas Segovia, Mate Szentes

Seeds of Rain (2022)
The title is a line from D.H. Lawrence poem Autumn Rain about hope and renewal.

Music (Part 1): Philip Glass / Mad Rush
Mark Alan Hilt (organ) / Recorded at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica.

Music (Part 2) Zbynek Mateju / Three Stones Concerto, Helena Sucharova Weiser (piano) and the Hradec Kralove Philharmonic Orchestra recorded specifically for this ballet collaboration.

Luckman Fine Arts Complex (CSULA)