EMPOWERING DANCE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY

June 12th, 2009 at 02:42pm Rebecca Fetter

While researching multi-disciplinary choreography concepts last year, I came across an extremely progressive dance video in YouTube titled Glow. Interactive software creator Frieder Weiss produced a digital landscape specifically for theatre use, which responds to a soloist’s movement on stage. Glow works with this software and an infrared video camera and PC which runs algorithms and creates real-time generated graphics which follow the dancer onstage, making her look like she is-most literally- glowing.

The dancer represents a progressive Australian group called Chunky Move: one of the world’s most contemporary performance collectives founded by Gideon Obarzanek. Since the mid ‘90s, Chunky move has been creating stage pieces, site-specific projects and new media and installation work.

Check them out here.

Rebecca

Entry Filed under: Performing Arts, Arts Advocacy