Looking back at last month we had the privilege to document Firebird Curriculum! We had an amazing day getting to shoot with and .taijimenez along with drummer Stephen Haley and six lovely DTH students!
11/26/2025
🍁Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁
Here’s a special holiday tradition that Nel’s kids have been doing for the last 11 years to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
Music by Gracie, lyrics and video editing by Jack, filming by the iPhone/Christopher (haha)!! Hope you get a little laugh and enjoy it. 💜
From Nel, “I love Thanksgiving because gratitude is what lifts me out of any tough situation, it is a practice that I can go to and it is always there. Here it goes…I am so grateful to do the work I get to do with my team and with my AMAZING clients. Dance truly changes lives and for all of us at NSP to capture dance on film is the most gratifying.
Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving and a season filled with gratitude no matter what the circumstances.”
11/24/2025
New York City Public School educators have a special place in NSP's heart💜
Which is why we loved capturing their Citywide Professional Learning: Ballet for All event earlier this month! Our team had a full day live streaming, capturing B-roll, and getting interviews. AND it was at one of our favorite places !
11/21/2025
We loved creating this film for ! This project highlights the incredible dancers, choreographers, and artists who bring the Pillow to life, and shows what this historic space means to them.
It’s a wonderful example of how video can help audiences connect more deeply to an organization’s mission and inspire support that keeps creativity thriving.
11/19/2025
BalletX performing SOJOURNER by Choreographer Gregory Dawson at the Joyce Theater this September to kick off their 20th Anniversary Season!✨️
We love to highlight our clients and capturing these dancers in their element is so rewarding.💜
Lighting Designer: Mark Stanley
Costume Designer: Martha Chamberlain
Musicians: Luke Carlos O'Reilly (piano), Lee Hogans (trumpet), Christopher McBride (saxophone), Adi Meyerson (acoustic bass),
Michael Piolet (drums), Kofi Hunter (percussion)
Dancers: Eli Alford, Itzkan Barbosa, Savannah Green, Lanie Jackson, Mathis Joubert, Jared Kelly, Eileen Kim, Skyler Lubin, Jonathan Montepara, Jerard Palazo, Minori Sakita, João Pedro Silva, Ben Schwarz, Ashley Simpson, Peter Weil
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11/17/2025
THROWBACK TIME! 📸
Check out some vintage NSP marketing gems!
From Nel:
"I’ll never forget the day I had this random marketing idea — I grabbed Christopher, we ran downstairs in our apartment, and snapped this photo of me holding the camera against the grossest white wall ever. 😂 Just goes to show that my best ideas usually hit me last minute (and usually in the shower 🚿). Looking back at these old ads really reminds me how far NSP has come!"
11/11/2025
Check out this stunning moment of Melissa Toogood performing Pam Tanowitz's "Lay All Your Love On Me" for Up Close: Song and Dance at Vail Dance Festival this past summer!
Melissa is in her first year as the Dean and Director of the Dance Division at Juilliard and we are so honored to be able to capture her onstage and celebrate all she is doing in this new position!
11/08/2025
NSP🤝latest TikTok trends
If we learned anything from Boot Camp it’s that social media should be FUN. Enjoy our team having a little bit of fun after a long and amazing week of shoots.
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11/05/2025
Happy November! Our team has been busy with our amazing clients these past couple weeks and we’ve got more exciting shoots to come this month!
Slides 1-4 DOE Citywide Professional Development
Slide 5: Wally Cardona and Molly Lieber at Pick Up Performance Co. SoHo Studio
Slide 6-7 and Guest
Next up live streaming at Capacity Interactive Bootcamp 2025 and we can’t wait! 🎥
10/30/2025
We had so much fun livestreaming and sponsoring Capacity Interactive’s Bootcamp last year and we’re thrilled to be back again this year!
Capacity Interactive is an amazing company that does such great work in the performing arts world. Each year that NSP attends Bootcamp, the whole team walks away inspired and thinking about digital marketing in a new way. This year’s theme, A Culture of Trust, feels especially meaningful with what we try to live by on our team and with our clients.
If you’re attending in person, please come say hi and stop by our booth. Feel free to DM us on Instagram to let us know you’ll be there! If you can’t make it, you can register in the link in bio to watch the livestream.
Hope to see you there (whether in person or over livestream)! 💟🧠💡
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Fully equipped for single and multiple camera video services, our team of dance videographers offers everything from brainstorming what your video should include to prepping the final edit for sharing online.
In addition to filming performances, we capture interviews, auditions, fundraising videos and promotional reels. Our dance documentary PS DANCE! was nominated for a New York Emmy!! We can even live-stream dance events online or at exclusive venues.
Excellence means more than showing up with the best equipment. As movers ourselves, we feel a deep devotion to the advancement of dance as an art form and bring this passion to every project we take on. We value collaboration with our clients and internally as a creative team. And we serve with kindness, knowing that the best projects are made of joy, not just deliverables.
Learn more about our values:
Nel Shelby Productions is expert and professional.
Here at Nel Shelby Productions, we pride ourselves on our high-quality standards. We use all of the state-of-the-art equipment, ensuring the sharpest, clearest video and sound. And rest assured that your video will be safe and secure: We store all of your footage in our own archive, just in case. We even have backups for our backups!
We have deep roots in the performing arts.
Our team has deep roots in the performing arts – which is why we’re so passionate about helping other artists promote and document their work! We want your performances to be seen and enjoyed by future generations – not just by those who buy tickets to your show. And we don’t work with just one kind of artist. We serve a diverse client base and have experience working in nearly every New York performance venue. Our team has an extensive knowledge of the field – and a strong understanding of our clients’ needs.
We really take care of our clients.
We know that an artist’s time is precious. We also know that the performing arts world just loves surprising us with last-minute opportunities and deadlines. That’s why we respond promptly to all requests and are happy to adjust our editing timelines based on your specific schedule. We are a cheery, caring, creative team that understands your needs and tries to make your job as easy as possible. We love to take care of our clients!
Our approach is thoughtful and collaborative.
We bring a collaborative approach to all our projects. We like to think of our clients as our partners in inspiration – we’re there to help you tell your story, but we also love to share our own big-picture ideas that we think will meet your needs. Brainstorming is a collaboration!
We are woman and dancer powered.
We’re proud to have a team made up of super inspiring women (and a few good men!) in a very male-dominated field. Because our videographers are all former and current dancers, we intimately understand the needs of other dance artists. We love seeing you do what you do. Your success is our success!
