The Last Dance

Production Team

Keith Newman

Producer

Keith Newman has over thirty years of experience producing and directing in both commercial and public broadcasting. Within that time he has produced award winning documentaries, entertainment programs, music videos and commercials. Keith is a multiple Emmy award winner and his work has been honored at numerous film and video festivals throughout the years.

Keith is a MS graduate of The Newhouse School of Communication at Syracuse University and now teaches at Ohio University. He also is the CEO of “Too Much Media LLC” [media production] and “bored of directors” [media consultant].

“The joy in producing is the quest to find a good story and then to assemble the right production team. As a producer, I strive to find the perfect combination of story and production talent . The ultimate goal is to have everyone using their gifts and making good choices, to create the best final product.”

“I would sincerely like to thank all of the creative and talented people who helped tell this story.”

Casey Hayward

Cinematographer/DP, Digital Effects, Editor

For more then a decade, Casey Hayward has focused his career on exploring the characters that walk among us. Like all documentarians, Hayward finds stories everywhere he looks in life but knows he has a truly good one when he can reveal the inner workings of human nature.

Hayward received his MFA from Savannah college of Art and Design and now teaches in the School of Media Arts and Studies at Ohio University. There he enjoys the interplay between teaching and learning and how it shapes his filmmaking approaches.

Hayward’s films have played all over the world, including the Cannes Marché du Cinema and Emotion Pictures Film Festival in Greece. Hayward’s films have received awards for his cinematography as well as overall achievement awards like the 2008 Chris Award for documentary and the Charles and Lucille King award for best of the fest BEA 2009.

While his documentary subject matters may range from eccentric artists, to quality of life for cancer patients, to the future of Iraq, Hayward looks forward to discovering and revealing the characters and the moments that remind us of what is most important about being human.

Janice Windborne

Associate Producer

Janice Windborne has focused most of her professional life on international issues. She has won numerous awards for reporting on political change and human rights in the former USSR, Yugoslavia and Mexico, as well as in the US.

During the War in Kosovo, she led a team of local reporters in Albania who kept refugees, UN mandated troops, and international aid workers informed of conditions on the ground, and with sister agencies in Kosovo and Macedonia used radio to promote peace between Serbians and Albanians.

She has also spent time in Ghana researching the impact of economic changes on women and children. Currently, she is a professor in the Communication Department of Otterbein College. Her research investigates how media can be used to promote human rights.

“This project has a different focus than my usual work, but Dave’s life mirrors the important events of the last eight decades and it was a pleasure to research the times and places in the video. I’ve also known Dave for several years and have come to respect not only his professional work, but his personal contribution to the community and the people around him.”

Eric Arvai

Original Score & Performance

Eric Arvai, a native Chicagoan, began playing piano at age 5. He studied jazz theory and piano performance from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. He went on to graduate from Ohio University with a B.S. in Visual Communications in Interactive Multimedia with a specialization in Electronic Music. He went on to work for a Santa Cruz advertising agency, Full Support Advertising & Design, where he produced many projects in the Bay Area; most notably scripting, engineering, scoring and mastering a radio campaign for the American Cancer Society.

Currently, Eric is the Director of the Media, Sound & Visual Department at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts. He has also taught MIDI, Game Audio and Music Theory at the college.

Eric is also partner and Audio / Video Post-Production Engineer for Top Speed Productions, a documentary production company specializing in off-road motorbike racing based in San Jose, CA.

Andre Gribou

Original Score & Performance

Andre Gribou has composed for and collaborated with many nationally and internationally known artists in the creation of works for documentaries, video, dance and theater. His theme music for the WCBS-TV NFL Today Preview received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Musical Composition, and he composed the score for the Emmy award-winning documentary Wandering Souls: Tet 68.

He received his second Emmy nomination in 2007 for the score to the documentary Passion Works: The Story of Flying. His also scored for NASA Footprints, the first movie created for the Science on a Sphere format, which was cited by Time magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2006.

As a pianist, André’s performance venues have included Lincoln Center, The United Nations, and The American New Music Consortium. In 1997, André and choreographer/dancer Mark Haim performed the world premiere of their duet The Goldberg Variations at The American Dance Festival. Since the premiere, Gribou and Haim have performed The Goldberg Variations throughout the United States and abroad.

André Gribou holds degrees from the Hartt School of Music and The Juilliard School.

Jeff Redefer

Post Production Audio Design

Jeff Redefer began his career in audio production at the age of 9 with his first guitar lessons. During the 1970’s Jeff began his sound career in earnest working with RCA recording artists, Pure Prairie League, as a sound engineer. Jeff toured with them for 5 years.

After his tenure with Pure Prairie League, Jeff went back to being a fulltime musician performing in a number of venues across the United States playing a variety of musical genres from Jazz to Pop to Country to Rock. During this period Jeff was hired as tour guitarist for his former employer Pure Prairie League.

In 1989, Jeff was recruited to teach for the School of Media Arts & Studies at Ohio University. In 2002 Jeff was appointed Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies with the School Media Arts & Studies.

Redefer has received two Emmy awards and a Telly Award for his work in sound design moving image that have aired nationally on PBS. Jeff is a Full voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (The Grammy’s) as well as the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (The Emmy’s).