The collaborative project of 'The First Day' is so compelling that Terry Beaubois of Montana State University’s Creative Research Lab and Charles Dye, PBS producer have partnered with Montana PBS to create a "behind-the-scenes" film. It will capture the multidisciplinary collaboration that goes into developing a World-Class multimedia Ballet in Bozeman Montana. This movie will take the magic far beyond one day on the stage as it has the potential to reach thousands of TV viewers.
Terry Beaubois
Terry is the founding director of the Creative Research Lab at MSU-Bozeman, in the College of Arts & Architecture. He received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Michigan, College of Architecture and Design in 1973. He then spent thirty years in California's Silicon Valley practicing building architecture and innovative computer software presentations.
Terry has been a consultant with Adobe, Apple, NASA, and many other high-tech companies. Terry's work has been in the forefront of applying advancing computer technology to architecture and business. A featured speaker at international conferences in Denmark, Japan, and Italy, Terry will be teaching and lecturing in Montana, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in 2010.Terry's work includes research and creative projects that involve, multidisciplinary collaborations, Virtual Reality, Sustainable Design, state and International Education Issues.
"The First Day" -- embodies the very spirit of the Creative Research Lab -- artistic, creative, multidisciplinary collaboration. "The Making of....." film will capture the "behind-the-scenes" of what it takes to conceive, plan, develop, and perform a World-Class Premiere, Multimedia Ballet in Bozeman Montana.
Charles Dye
Charles' latest project, Before There Were Parks:Yellowstone and Glacier Through Native Eyes will have a national primetime PBS broadcast in February, 2010. It aired on Montana PBS in September 2009. A Cat Called Elvis, about his search--with his wife and son--for snow leopards in the Kazakh highlands of western Mongolia, is still the #1 downloaded show on the Webby-award winning www.lifeonterra.comhttp://www.lifeonterra.com/episode.php?id=92> podcast. Last of the Gum Men, about the chicle harvesters in the jungles of Guatemala, was seen nationwide on PBS via NETA satellite in 2003. Charles’ short film, Saving the Snow Leopards of Mongolia, appeared on National Geographic Wild Chronicles in 2002.
A creative writing and art major at the University of Arizona, Charles has long been captivated by creative expression and its essential place in any society.