After the Redwood trip, Angelo and I decided that we needed even ground and more light to film the dance project.  (Please revisit the Redwood and Sunol post if your feeling a bit lost here)  We also needed an outdoor space in California.  After location scouting in Los Angeles county, we decided to take a gamble and shoot in the Joshua Tree National Park.  We enlisted Angelo’s friend, a professional photographer, Anthony Thosh Collins to help us shoot the dance so we would have two camera angles. We left our hotel at 5:30am to start setting up and to begin shooting at sunrise.

This was probably one of the easiest dance film shoots I had ever done.  Even though I was rolling around in the ground just a few yards from the main road, no one bothered us.  The lighting was  luminescent, Angelo and Thosh were as professional as could be, and because I had no other dancers to be resposible of , I tried to just keep doing the piece until we wrapped. Angelo and I both feel like we got so lucky in the respect of how smoothly our day went.  We wrapped by noon, ate lunch and went sightseeing around Joshua Tree before we headed back to LA.