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Trish Sie
Choreographer and Director

Trish Sie creates, directs, writes, produces, collaborates and generally gets to make inventive stuff with inspiring people. Her passion for mundane objects and ordinary people doing extraordinary things is part of her acclaimed signature style. Known for her whimsical approach to music, movement and space, she incorporates objects and environments into her choreography in playful, innovative and unexpected ways.

Her ground-breakingg Grammy Award-winning concepts, choreography, and direction with the rock band, OK Go, have produced some of the most universally heralded and ubiquitously downloaded music videos of all time: the backyard dance, the treadmill dance, the dog dance, and “All Is Not Lost,” an ambitious collaboration with Pilobolus Dance Theatre, which showcases the band and dancers in twelve simultaneous films, fusing elaborate choreography with cutting-edge interactive technology.

Eschewing many of the traditional conventions of filmmaking (and of life in general), Trish is carving her own charmingly oddball niche in the world of performance, film and video.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

We live in a world where technological advancements are moving at the speed of light, yet money is tight. We are expereincing both opportunities we never imagined, including ever-expanding access to increasingly affordable tools and technology, while also finding we have to live with our metaphorical belts tighter now than ever. The result is a new wave of creativity that calls for (and inspires!) a high level of inventiveness, ingenuity, cleverness, and overall quality. With Netflix, TiVo, Youtube, Vimeo, and Hula (just to name a few), people can watch whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want. Audiences are no longer marrooned on their sofas while car commercials interrupt their favorite program. So for people to notice our work, for people to care—for people even to see it at all!—the world demands that what we make be GOOD.

So what defines work as “good” in an era where people have seen it all, done it all? Some situations require keeping up with the times, staying perched on the bleeding edge of culture... and yet some situations oblige us to keep in mind that certain fundamental principles simply never change. The challenge is in knowing when to look forward, and when to look back, how to use digital and technological tools AND harness the old-fashioned power of blood, sweat and tears for maximum effect.

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