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ACDFA Reflections

ACDFA Central Region's 2010 conference is now over, and was a great time for our class! On Saturday, March 20th, we presented "Snack Time", an interactive presentation/demonstration of our explorations in telematic dance performance.

The presentation was great success, and the students who participated really enjoyed learning about the ideas and technologies, and mostly they enjoyed the DANCING! Some highlights of our two-hour workshop:

Interactive activities:
-"Herd" score exploring motion-based control of stage lighting
-Improvised score with two spatially displaced (far away) musicians (Felipe and Justin) from SARC in Belfast (http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/main.php), and one local (in the dance space) musician (Jeff).

Demonstration modules of the session:
-An off-site introduction to the session by Melissa via skype
-Introduction to DMX lighting control
-Video motion tracking with Isadora (http://www.troikatronix.com/isadora.html)
-Programming of interactive lighting and video visualization using MAX (http://cycling74.com/products/maxmspjitter/)
-High-quality, low-latency, two-way multi-channel audio tranmission via JackTrip (http://code.google.com/p/jacktrip/)

The students enjoyed exploring the interactive creative environment made possible by digital technologies. Both students from our class and those visiting for ACDFA are now challenged to imagine new ways that movement can create meaningful, engaging experiences for audiences and participants alike.
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"Snack Time!" at ACDFA!

Our class will be presenting "Snack Time!" at the Central Region Conference of the American College Dance Festival Association (http://www.acdfa.org) on Saturday, March 20th, 12:30-2:30pm, in the Krannert Cetner for the Performing Arts (KCPA), on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Our presentation will be a introduction and participatory experience in telematic dance performance and will include a performance featuring real-time exchange between dancers in Illinois and musicians at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) in Belfast, Northern Ireland (http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/main.php). The collaboration with SARC will happen via video feeds from each venue to the other, and via low-latency, high quality (16bit, 44.1kHz) 4-channel audio from SARC to KCPA. The scores for this dance and for the audience participation portion of the class are currently being developed by the students.

This promises to be a unique, interesting experience for the students and participants alike - Hopefully one that will inspire further creativity in spatially-displaced artistic collaboration!

Hope to see you there!
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