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Photography, Videotaping and Audio-recording Policy  

Policy

Oneness Project events aim to create a safe and inspiring container in which participants can fully experience the sacred and celebratory power of the Dances of Universal Peace. Recording these events through photos, videos, and audio can support the DUP through such uses as accurate archiving of specific dances as well as history, promotion, enhancing and extending event experiences by making recordings available to participants following such events. We are aware that recording dance sessions can potentially detract from participants’ sense of safety and/or the coherence and depth of their experience, therefore all recordings shall be carried out in a manner that protects both the integrity and depth of the dancers’ experience as well as avoiding any intrusion on their personal, spiritual or intimate moments.

Procedures

  1. Attendees will be requested to sign a photo permission form consenting to have their pictures taken at events. There will be an option for dancers to opt out of having their images taken, and the desires of those not wishing to be photographed will respected as much as possible. Any group photographs in which they are included will not be used without their specific permission.
     
  2. Photo, video and audio recordings will be used by Oneness Project for promoting events, in newsletters, announcements, music CDs, and on the web site. OP may occasionally release photos for publication elsewhere for promoting the DUP and/or OP events. At no time are photos taken at OP events to be used for publication without express permission of OP.
     
  3. Photo, audio and video recordings taken during the event by individuals enlisted and supported by OP through work exchange, scholarship, honorarium, or reduction in registration fees shall become the property of OP for their sole use following the above stated policies. The photographer/videographer relinquishes rights to the images and shall not retain copies thereof without specific permission from OP.
     
  4. Such individuals will work closely with OP to develop an event plan that clearly targets specific objectives (promotion, archiving, etc.) with the least intrusion on participants’ experience. (e.g., recordings for archiving purposes could be done in special sessions, promotional recordings designed to insure an effective product with the least amount of intrusion)
     
  5. OP is conscious of the possible distraction caused by recordings, audio, video, or images, and will restrict the number of photographs taken during dance sessions to a minimum needed to reflect the flavor of the session/retreat.
     
  6. Photographs and video taping will be done without a flash, and we will also request that retreat attendees refrain from using a flash during dance sessions.
     
  7. No recording of images will be taken during Zikr by OP staff or attendees.
     
  1. Attendees will be requested to refrain from any recording, video or audio, during Dance sessions, however, OP will ask dance leaders to provide opportunities to speak with individual leaders for learning new Dances.
     
  1. No photos or videos will be taken of intimate moments (e.g. weeping) or be invasive to the dancers.
     
  2. The photographer/videographer/recorder is to use discretion and be unobtrusive in obtaining images and recordings so as to not detract from the experience of the dancers.