• About
  • Find out more about the Richard Alston Dance Company
  • How to use this resource
    About this resourceTheory, Practical and Resource sheetsOptimised video file viewingPlaying videos in Full ScreenEmbed a video in your own webpageMaking the most of Overdrive by using the London MLE
  • Acknowledgments
  • Give your feedback
• Overdrive Film
  • Play whole film
  • Overdrive in the Studio
  • Interview with Richard Alston
  • The music from Overdrive
  • Credits
• Overdrive Lessons
  • Lessons Overview
  • Lesson 1
  • Lesson 2
  • Lesson 3
  • Lesson 4
  • Lessons 5 & 6

An in-depth analysis of Richard Alston's 2003 piece Overdrive

Developed in partnership with the London Grid for Learning, this new online resource offers a comprehensive analysis of how
the choreography for Overdrive is structured, as well as detailed discussion of Terry Riley's inspirational music Keyboard
Study #1.

Alston in Overdrive is an essential resource for students and teachers of
dance, music and the performing arts.

The resource includes:

• Full performance of Overdrive by Richard Alston Dance Company
• Teaching demonstration material
• Interview with Richard Alston in which he talks about his work
  and his choreographic process
• Interviews with Terry Riley and Steffan Schleiermacher discussing
  the score
• New Lesson plan material to support all the online video resources

Bob Usher LGfL Content Manager

Katherine Rothman Programme Leader, Essential Alston

April 2011