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A Workshop on Wearable Art and Interactive Performance

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 15, 2009 at 5:23pm

The workshop is : Lunar Outpost A Workshop on Wearable Art and Interactive Performance May 25 – June 5, 2009 http://wearableart-interactiveperformance.com friend Lunar Outpost on facebook. Herberger College Dance and the School of Art at Arizona State University are offering a two-week workshop on Wearable Art and Interactive Performance. The workshop will take place on the Tempe Campus of Arizona State University from May 25 through June 5, 2009. Workshop leaders from Herberger College Dance and the School of Art include: John D. Mitchell, mediated performance designer, Galina Mihaleva costume and fashion designer, Hilary Harp, media artist and sculptor, joined by a special guest, Keiko Courdy, French artist and director of KI transdisciplinary performance structure. In response to initiatives to create a fully occupied operational base on the moon by 2024, the theme for this year's workshop is: Lunar Outpost. As artists how do we respond to extreme environments that are so unlike our home environment? At the Lunar Outpost people will experience micro gravity, a different atmospheric propagation of sound, an essentially black-and-white environment, and a profound sense of loneliness. Workshop participants will explore emergent electronic technologies for performance and installation framed by the theme Lunar Outpost. Interactive technologies offer the means to extend, manipulate and add color to our environments in a new manner.

Workshop: DIY wearable technology, by KOBAKANT

Posted by V2_ on April 15, 2009 at 4:38pm

Call for participationMay 16-17, 2009.Deadline for applications: May 3Fee for participation: €50,-Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Piano Hack by KOBAKANT

During the weekend of May 16 and 17, Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson (aka KOBAKANT) will give a two-day workshop on DIY wearable technology. The outcome of the workshop will be demonstrated during Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology on May 20 (20-23h).
KOBAKANT explores the realm of wearable technology as a medium for commenting on technological and social aspects. For them, technology is to be hacked and modified by everyone to fit the needs and desires of the user.V2_Lab will organize a wearable technology workshop with an emphasis on DIY techniques and performing arts. The aim of the workshop is to provide participants with hands-on experience on DIY wearable technology. The outcome of the workshop will be workingprototypes, which will be demonstrated by means of a short performance during Test_Lab.The participants will partake inhands-on sessions that involve both conceptual as well astechnical development. Developers from both V2_Lab and KOBAKANT are available for assistance throughout the workshop.The workshop is open to students and professionals in the fields of art, design, and engineering. Although anyone with an interest in wearable technology and basic knowledge of electronics or of sewing is welcome to join, we especially encourage people with an expertise in fashion design, technology in performance arts, and/or wearable technology engineering to sign up.Participants are invited to demonstrate the workshop outcome during Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology on May 20, in which various renowned artists will also demonstrate their wearable technology projects and where the technologies’ social consequences will be discussed by professionals in the field.The number of participants to the workshop is limited. The fee for participation is €50,- (to be paid before the workshop). This includes coffee, lunch and materials but no accommodation.Please use the application form.Deadline for applications is May 3.For more information about the workshop, please contact Piem WirtzM: piem@v2.nlT: +31 (0)10 2067273www.v2.nl www.kobakant.at

SARMA + Workspace Brussels= Working Title Festival #2

Posted by helena febres fraylich on April 15, 2009 at 3:48pm

for those one that does not know yetSARMA (based in Belgium)Sarma is an artistic and discursive VERY INTERESTING laboratory for criticism, dramaturgy and research in the field of dance and beyond. Sarma collects and organizes discursive practices. By compiling author based or thematically related text anthologies, published online on our website. But also by curating festivals, by providing dramaturgical assistance to performers, by organizing workshops, discussions, lectures, installations and research projects. Sarma is a breeding ground for artists and theoreticians to collaborate on shared problems and premises. Sarma aims for artistic work- and presentation formats that are inspiring to all.but Sarma is more than that: www.sarma.beand they are at the present moment collaborating with Workspace Brussels: a Brussels based organisation that aims at supporting young artists in research, creation, production and presentation of their projects. They do so by providing these artists with a working space, basic equipment, advice, and a platform for communication and presentation. WSB on it's turn is supported by Kaaitheater Brussels theater and Rosas-Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker dance company , and is embedded in a wide international network of affiliated organisations.so SARMA+ Workspace Brussels= Working Title Festival #2 ( finishing 18th April)http://workspacebrussels.net

Dance Week Challenge from VISCERA and Afrologica

Posted by ibeshe on April 15, 2009 at 9:12am

So Dance week is upon us here in the US. Usually a series of somewhat hokey studio offerings, this event was initially planned by UNESCO as a one day dance intervention. There was to be dancing int he streets, in public plazas and buildings, parks and thoroughfares. Dancing literally in the streets if one could manage it.So I'd like to bring that energy back.My colleague and friend Susan Rose made a piece back in the 1970s for parking meters. It was very intense and extremely instructive on many levels. Therefore, I am issuing a Metered Dance Challenge to you all.How it works: on International Dance Day, April 29th, with a team of at least 6 dancing bodies (in the footage of Susan's work, teams of 3 were often ignored and in danger), scope out meters on a busy street. When a car leaves, pump in your change, and proceed to dance there for the amount of time you have purchased. Don't forget to videotape and upload here, vimeo and on YouTube. Extra bonus points if you join afrologic.ning.com and post there, too.I will curate a sampling of the videos on a blog celebrating our investigation of the "value" of dance.Tag me on Twitter if you think you want to do this: @doctoradancer . Follow on Twitter via #meterdnce . I would like as many places on the planet as possible to participate.I'll see about getting a DVD transfer of the Super8 film of the original dance uploaded for all to check out.thought in motion,Anna B. Scott, Co-Instigator VISCERA performance theorist troupe; founder/editor/writer of Afrologica network & afrological.blogspot.com newsletter

Not universal anymore

Posted by Chris Jordan on April 14, 2009 at 2:48am

I've been more and more ticked off at all things facebook, to the point of this friends' words ringing ever louder and sardonically in my head, when hit up for some regular work-work day job questions about his rate, : "I would only work with open-source".In that vein, I'm returning to Dance-Tech after a few months, because I remembered it supports open ID, which I'm setting up with opengear.org.Best,Cj

Connected Ideas in dance-techTV featuring Forsythe, Noë, Nelson Interviews

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 13, 2009 at 12:30pm

We are featuring in dance-techTV three related interviews: William Forsythe, philosopher Alva Noë and Lisa Nelson... Watch them and discover the connections! Bonus: watch the trailer preview of Forsythe's Synchronous Object project. Watch them in the loop or one by one in the Video on demand section.

Adding a Flickr Slideshows to your Dance Website

Posted by Doug Fox on April 13, 2009 at 11:09am

I think it's easy to overlook the value of online dance photography as the focus is often on creating and sharing dance videos.So I wrote a post this morning, "Flickr Slideshows for Dance Websites and Blog."If you have ideas about using dance photography online for both marketing and creative purpose, please share your thoughts. Thanks!Best,Doug FoxGreat Dance

GENEVA SESSIONS 09/ INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN SWITZERLAND

Posted by Gilles Jobin on April 12, 2009 at 1:20pm

GENEVA SESSIONS 09/Made in LausanneFree International workshopADVANCED INSCRIPTIONS OPEN FOR DANCETECH MEMBERS!!!Inscriptions are not open yet, but you can already show your interest by sending a comentary on the page of Gilles Jobin----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GENEVA SESSIONS 09/Made In LausanneFree International workshop for profesionnals dancers, choreographers and filmakersImage/Motion: New Mediation of the Performance of MovementAn interdisciplinary workshopWorkshop led by Marlon Barrios (New York/dancetech)Théâtre Arsenic Lausanne (Switzerland)8th of June to 19th of June 2009The Geneva Sessions is an international workshop for professional dancers and choreographers organised by Cie Gilles Jobin. Now in its third year, this annual encounter aims at creating a motivating artistic environment for experimented professional dancers in the Geneva area. The participants will be a combination of international professionals and Lausanne and Geneva region based dancers. The workshop is free. By invitation only. Inscription form coming out soon.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Image/Motion: New Mediation of the Performance of MovementAn interdisciplinary workshopIn this workshop we will survey and explore the creative applications of recent developments of new digital technologies on the performance of movement, choreography and image construction within multimedia systems for performances or installations. We will investigate the coupling of movement and image and the creative/aesthetics potential of working with real-time interactive software, portable devices and the www.Geared to professional dancers, choreographers, filmmakers and interdisciplinary artists teams, an emphasis will be on collaborative experimentation on the prototyping of multimedia works exploring the intersection of image and movement production and mediation. Through short theoretical lectures, group discussion, movement and improvisational scores, demonstrations and hands-on software practice, the participants will investigate the following related topics: motion and perception, recorded image and real-time processing, web cams and mobile phone cams for the creation of content, computation and choreography, projection surfaces, video tracking for media control and distributed performance.Participants : Professional dancers, professional choreographers, professional video makers, professional film makers.This workshop has three interrelated modules:Dance on (many) CamerasInvestigate the capturing and presentation of dance with video cameras and its uses in linear and non linear composition for different technological platforms and formats. Besides regular DV and HV cameras, we will explore the use of webcams and mobile phones cams for creative composition. We will also cover basic video editing andPractical: creation of short video compositions for web platforms.Dynamic Image and MovementIntroduction of the use of pre-recorded and live video on stage and a survey on the use on new media technology for the performance of motion. We will explore video projection on screen, on body, on objects, video as theatrical light, etc. Use of real time processing and interactivity exploring computation and performance of movement.Practical: creation of a short piece using real-time technology.The new internet and the Social WebIntroduction to web 2.0 technologies and the uses of social networking technology for collaborative creation of knowledge and performances. Discover the possibilities of internet tv broadcast.Practical: develop and create networked projects and use video broadcasting technology .---------------------Workshop leader Marlon Barrios SolanoMarlon Barrios Solano is a Venezuelan social media specialist/consultant, on-line producer and lecturer/researcher focused on the intersection of new media and performance and on the use of on-line platforms for collaborative creativity and social innovation. Currently, he works as a New Media/On-line Marketing Specialist for Dance New Amsterdam and consults for several art organizations in the US and abroad. He is the creator/producer of dance-tech.net (a social networking site), dance-techTV and of DANCE TECH, an on-line program that explores the intersection of dance and digital technology.He has been a guest artist/lecturer at Interaktionslabor 2004 and ZKM (Germany), STEIM (The Netherlands), Digital Cultures Lab (UK), University of Oslo Design School (Norway), and in the US at The Advanced Computing Center for Arts and Design at The Ohio State University, Denison University, Purdue University, The Aesthetic Technologies Lab at Ohio University, Middlebury College, Wesleyan University and many New York City venues and institutes. He holds an MFA in Dance and Technology (independent track on real-time technology, performance of improvisation and cognition) from The Ohio State University. www.dance-tech.netDancetech:http://www.dance-tech.net/contact: Marlon Barrios Solanomarlon@dance-tech.netWorkshop organizer:Gilles Jobin, choreographer. Lives and work in Geneva.Beside his artistic work, Gilles Jobin has a certain number of side projects linked to the professional development of dance across the world. Home of his company, the Studios 44 in Geneva is a pioneering space for professional training for dancers working for the recognition of professional formation for contemporary dancers in Switzerland. Gilles Jobin is stimulating international exchange by means of various initiatives: free daily professional training for dancers, educational activities, international workshops, artistic residencies, www.south-south.info and projects with countries from the Southern hemisphere.info:www.gillesjobin.com

MacDowell Colony Applications

Posted by Vallejo Gantner on April 10, 2009 at 10:35pm

Hello folks,Just a short reminder that MacDowell Colony applications for the fall / winter are open until APRIL 15, and people should apply...They have gorgeous studios, marley if needed, financial assistance to get there and back and stay there, and a desperate shortage of interesting interdisciplinary performance makers and choreographers...http://www.macdowellcolony.orgCheers,Vallejo

CNMAT Summer Workshops in Berkeley

Posted by Ashley on April 10, 2009 at 9:39pm

I am thrilled to take some workshops with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at Berkeley summer. I have been wanting to play with an Arduino Lilypad for some time now and can't wait to get started!I am curious if anyone knows of some good choreographies that engage this technology?It seems like projects that work with these and similar technologies are often more focused on musical production. This is particularly clear in the fact that NIME was born from the CHI conference. I have been surfing the NIME Conference archives and have found numerous projects exploring gesture recognition and musical interfaces. I am curious to see how this is different than dance and interactive technologies, if it is. Perhaps if we add a choreographic focus to these experiments the product will pop!

Dilettante Dance at the Belvedere

Posted by Cindi on April 10, 2009 at 4:30pm

Please check out these beautiful photos by Zachary Handler.copy and paste into your browser:http://www.flickr.com/photos/zzhandler/sets/72157616528173688/

Get Your Own Channel in Dance-techTV Network Dance LIVE World Wide...

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 9, 2009 at 9:30pm

To all interested members... One of the greatest impacts of the development of the internet has been on the democratization of the knowledge production and distribution, and with the new internet this potential is maximized with the development of interactive video broadcasting technologies and potent social software platforms. Now the users can engage in sustainable ways of managing their own information and knowledge creation and distribution. Dance-tech.net has made a partnership with Mogulus (the same platform that I have been using for the first channel), one of the most advanced internet video platforms for Live Broadcasting, video on demand and linear transmission of programs. This partnership allows dance-techTV to offer to all members of dance-tech.net the possibility of become producers of their own internet HD video channel. How it works? The main purpose of this project is to develop a group of motivated users that will assume the role of producers or their own internet channel creating a real world wide network of collaborators from content production, aggregations to distributionall done within a community of engaged users. In this model, the channels are operated independently by each producer and are affiliated to the dance-techTV network. Read about Mogulus Mogulus Mogulus Prices System Requirements FAQ Benefits: If a user goes directly to Mogulus and wants to enjoy the advantages of a PRO account it has to pay 350$ a month. A PRO account allows the user to broadcast in HD, eliminate ads and have reliable statistics. The PRO user has a quota of 25 GB of bandwidth and will pay 1.20 per GB extra. The dance-techTV Network Deal With dance-techTV Network each associated channel will be PRO and will have 50 GB per month for bandwidth and storage and will pay only 0.50 per GB beyond the quota. FEES? A special system of SUGGESTED DONATION has been designed: $ 150.00 per month + .50 per GB extra OR $ 75.00 per hour of broadcast $ 70.00 per hour of training These fees are estimated to cover actual costs of bandwidth and labor but you can pay what you can! Every member has the right to have a channel! So, we are all contributing and distributing the load of the costs. All donations are made to the Dance Tech Interactive PayPall account. Conditions: -The channel producer must be a dance-tech.net member. -The channel must be used for art related content such as lectures, performances, talk shows, interviews, special artistic projects, online teaching. -Each members can have only one channel per dance-tech.net account in the dance-techTV network. -The producer must embed the channel in his or her member page in dance-tech.net -The producer is allowed to embed the player in any other sites. -The producer must always include a link to his or her member page when announcing a broadcast. -The producer must always state: The Channel is provided by dance-techTV Network. -The producer is responsible for all copyright and all the productions aspects the channel: channel customization and branding, content management, administrations and back ups. -The producer must announce the exact times of all live broadcasts to the channel main administrator. -The producer must make use of the dance-tech.net event calendar to announce the broadcasts or spacial programming. -If the producer of the channel is using the channel for paid broadcasts or directly paid work needs to be mindful and share the benefits with the network. If you are interested in getting your own channel with the dance-tech.net network COMMENT IN THIS POST!or send me an email to marlon(at)dance-tech(dot)net also include in your text the name in one word for the new channel, so it would look like this: http://www.mogulus.com/movementresearchtv Some of you might have already expressed interest in your channel so proceed to write the selected name for your channel. Marlon Barrios Solano Dance-techTV Executive Producer

Interview with William Forsythe @ The Hellerau, Dresden, Germany

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 8, 2009 at 4:30pm

Find more videos like this on dance-tech.net
Choreographer William Forsythe talks about his motivations for the development of the Synchronous Objects, his perspectives on choreography and about his support for creative exchange and research within his company. http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/ http://www.theforsythecompany.com/ Thanks to TMA Hellerau Dresden, Germany 4/5/09 Produced by Marlon Barrios Solano

Kids, New Media and Dance

Posted by Doug Fox on April 8, 2009 at 12:08pm

I wrote a post this morning about a wonderful hip hop dance festival I saw last night at PS 165 in Flushing, Queens.The program was organized and directed by dance teacher Kathleen Isaac. It was a blast to see the energy and creativity of the children, mostly 3rd - 5th graders.I'm especially interested to hear about dancers and dance teachers who work with kids and also incorporate new media and technology into their projects - Thanks!Here's my post: "Hip Hop Dance Festival at PS 165 in Flushing, Queens."Also read Sabine Klaus' post on dance-tech: "Children & Dance."Best,Doug FoxGreat Dance

Children & Dance

Posted by CreationEditor on April 8, 2009 at 12:00am

Hi,together with Susan Elena (fireboxdancetheatre.co.uk) I am right now part of an exciting project organised by Anna Ramsay to create screendance videos for Big in Falkirk (http://www.biginfalkirk.com/).It's great fun with the 22 kids who are between 6-12years old. The boys and girls are super energetic and totally into dance and keen to put something together for the videos. The moment they know the camera is rolling they are completely focused and total pros!However, what absolutely positively surprised me was that when we showed them some DVDs as part of the introduction to screendance they absolutely understood how the digital effects were done and could even explain most of them. Wow, the next generation grows up with such a different understanding and approach to the digital world! But saying this, the group of youngster made very quickly clear to us that although they enjoy watching the dance scenes from "Step Up", they actually want to get up and make their own and be active rather than passively sit around and stare at a screen. I love this!Looking forward to the next couple of days!Sabine Klaushttp://creationeditor.co.uk/More Infohttp://www.biginfalkirk.com/dance/screendancefilmproject/

Creating Furniture from Forsythe's Choreography

Posted by Doug Fox on April 6, 2009 at 1:10pm

I just wrote following new post on Great Dance:"Creating Furniture from Forsythe's Choreography"The post focuses on one of the many visualization objects created for the Synchronous Objects project, a joint collaboration between William Forsythe and OSU.Best,Doug FoxGreat Dance

Dance Parade and Festival May 16th!

Posted by Dance Parade 2009! on April 6, 2009 at 6:14am

Hey guys,Wanted to invite one and all to the 3rd Annual New York Dance Parade happening Saturday May 16th! Starting at 1pm, we honor the history of dance by unfolding dance groups from African to Ballet in the order in which each genre was birthed--Over 40 styles of dance are represented!There are over 2500 dancers already signed up from over 80 organzations.We have a great E-Newsletter with interesting articles on interesting styles of dance as well as fun stories about the folks in the parade!www.danceparade.org to sign up or learn more!Greg

Dance-tech.net News: nomination, research trip, broadcasting experiments and more...

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 5, 2009 at 3:00am

Hello Dance-techers! this is Marlon, the network producer. Welcome all new members! Explore all dance-tech.net interactive features (blogging, forums and groups, chat room, video and photo sharing ) and engage in multiple conversations. Notice that you can personalize your page design and formatting. Explore the benefits for members! This is your network and you make it with your participation! News about dance-tech.net: Golden Nica 2009 Nomination on Digital Communities for dance-tech.net: In the beginning of March, I received an email from the Digital Communities Committee for the Ars Electronica's Golden Nica 2009 award, letting me know that our community was nominated for the award. This is so exiting and important! Just the fact that we were nominated is an important indicator of the relevance of our know how and that we are doing a good job in sharing knowledge and innovation. I believe that we have a lot of possibilities of winning. Keep rockin'! Using the network for teaching: More a more teachers and instructors are using the network for teaching in their courses, either using the videos to illustrate concepts or surveying the field. Some of them are formally creating groups for their classes or study groups. Thank you to initiators Rachel Boggia (Wesleyan University), Ellen Bromberg (University of Utah) and Grisha Coleman (Arts, Media and Engineering for Arizona State University). Share with us if you are using the network for teaching or educational projects...also how are you collaborating creating new methods or strategies in its use? what are your student responses? Research on Networking Dance Cultures: I am writing this from Dresden. I just started a three months research trip exploring the possibilities of our network to augment the potential for translocal knowledge exchange and study the complexities of open platforms of information sharing across boundaries of countries, cultures, disciplines, technologies and bodies. I will be in Dresden for 10 days sharing with the Forsythe Company while they are in residency performing (I will interview Bill Forsythe and some of his powerhouse creative team). I will also be preparing for a think tank on the future of performance and new media that will take place in Prague during Enter4, an exciting Conference on Art, Science and Technology. Amsterdan, Beirut, Tunisia, Lausanne , Geneva, Annecy and Madrid are in the roadmap.I will be writing and video blogging intensively and let me know if you are around any of this places:We might meet up! This research adventure is made possible in part with the support of Geneva Based Gilles Jobin Company and the Trans Media Akademie Hellerau, Dresden. Their support is helping us to realize this vision of an open forum for free exchange of knowledge for our community. Thank you again! Special thanks to the directors of Dance New Amsterdam, where I work in NYC as a social networking specialist, for creating a sabbatical format that is allowing me to work remotely and to integrate this research on future innovative educational and audience development programs. Movement Research Festival prepares for a Global Distributed performance in Dance-techTV network: Dance-techTV is co-producing with the Movement Research Spring festival 2009 As the World Turns: a distributed collaborative performance experiment. The performance will be broadcasted using Movement ResearchTV, a new channel created by the new dance-techTV collaborative broadcasting platform. From the Festival Program: "Launching from the Beirut International Platform of Dance/BIPOD, and traveling around the world, this experiment in distributed performance will be a global game of telephone as each city’s choreographer adds to the dance conversation." As The World Turns culminates in NYC where the public can participate Participating cities include: Brazil, England,France, Lebanon, Sweden, and the US. dance-techTV collaborative broadcasting Would you like to produce your own internet HD video channel for your company, art venue, festival, school or creative experiments in any language and from anywhere in the world!? Would you like to enjoy the benefits of broadcasting for an engaged and innovative community? would you like to be an initiator in this project? Ideas? Questions? Email me at marlon@dance-tech.net and put "my dance-techTV channel" in the subject of the email. I will email you the details. This project is made possible with a spacial partnership with Mogulus and don't forget to: SUPPORT DANCE-TECH.NET

Synchronous Objects - A Data Visualization Exploration

Posted by Doug Fox on April 2, 2009 at 1:33pm

Now that the William Forsythe/Ohio State University dance visualization project "Synchronous Objects" is up, I wrote:"Exploring William Forsythe's "Synchronous Objects" Website"What do you think about this ambitious visualization project for dance?Best,Doug FoxGreat Dance

Spring Thesis Dance Concert

Posted by Brittany on April 1, 2009 at 6:05am

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