This is a preliminary script. On this web site preliminary scripts deal only with the photos that were taken. Expect that a permanent script will be created in the near future.

On Feb 16th the Beth Sholom session had a guest instructor who had travelled all the way from Italy. Roberto Bagnoli was in town. Roberto runs Camp Yofi in Italy and a surprising number of Phila based dancers have attended that camp including Lee Friedman, Sharon Polsky, Wendy and David Friedman, Israel and Pnina Sieglar and Andrea Wallach (who came in from Vermont to attend this workshop). Our web site had several cameras and at this moment we have the results of only one, a canon powershot Elph 160. With any small camera, dark settings can create problems and we'll see if we can use some computer software to lighten up a few of the shots above. This was mostly manned by David Friedman and we thank him for his support in this. David was also able to grab some video of Roberto in the midst of teaching a dance as indicated at the bottom of this script. Note: On both this set of pictures and those below, clicking the picture will give you a view of the picture in its original height and width

Our second camera was an Olympus E420 with a modified flash manned by Marc Rauer who has occasionally done camera work for this web site. This camera attempted to catch individual dancers although the conditions at Beth Sholom make this somewhat difficult. The Fleishman auditorium, where Roberto was giving his workshop, has very high ceilings and very dim lighting. This defeats most attempts to use bounce flash to soften the images when applying the flash. This left direct flash images but the result can be overexposure. Although both techniques were used on groups of shots, the direct flash pictures appear to be better. As to the bounced flash pictures, there is computer software thst can be used to brighten pictures and we may avail ourselves of this when the permanent script is created.

One other factor in talking with Marc. He says that once the auditorium filled up he took pictures in three phases. The first phase was being in the circle with Roberto. The second phase was being on the line giving a view consistent with the dancers attending the session. The third phase was being behind the dancers giving a view of a spectator to the event. As we produce these pictures you should be able to discern some of this as you peruse the pictures below.

At the moment there are 175 pictures indicated although we expect that somewhere near 200 or so pictures will eventually be extracted from this camera.

The picture on the left is for all the women at the session so that you can remember the best parts of Roberto's appearance. And the picture to the right is specifically for Elaine Frank