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Zis Landmass Zat Loov

Posted by Ashley A. Friend on March 9, 2009 at 11:14pm

Baywood, CA

Montaña de Oro, CA (Spooner's Cove)

Bishop's Peak, San Luis Obispo, CA

Morro Bay (Morro Rock), CA

San Luis Obispo, CA1.4.2009Wow, I can’t believe I have not written. Life really does fly by. I have been the laziest son well… daughter of a bitch. (That sounds bad... sorry mom.) I mean I’ve been doing a lot… a lot of hanging out. A lot of exercising and be in my optimum dancer body, sans studio and indoor rehearsals... A lot of buying things that I don’t need, then going through my storage unit and keeping everything. I am trying to get rid of some nick-knacks and sentimentalities, but it’s not working. I look at the things I own and think… “Someday, when I have a house, I will put this in it somewhere and use it.” I don’t want to bring anything back to NY because my roommate will just throw it away. I can’t trust him around objects. But I can’t keep all of my things in a vault.Everything has been in storage for almost four years. That’s a long time to be separated from a life that was not quite right--without a thorough visitation. Graduate school was such a dream. Things were set-up and people just did a lot of thinking and made art and worked on papers. It was really hard, I don’t want to make it sound simple or easy… I honestly thought it would lead me to something, like a job. I’m still trying to understand what I gained from my experience there, besides debt. I know. I remember now. One of my crucial decisions in going to school there was because it was close to my grandparents.......I keep asking myself what’s wrong with me? The past 8 months on the road those questions surface… what’s wrong with me? For many years it is easy to blame others for personal or professional misfires, but when one spends so much time alone that question is both surprising and inevitable amidst the bliss of such a trip. The travel. The life. The past 8 months have been the best of my life, which states much. I have traveled in Nepal and hiked in the Himalayas. I have spent three-months living in London and a month in Vienna at a fantastic dance festival. And many other events which could lead to a full anthology of Berkeley, Olympia, Seattle, Portland, Columbus, San Luis Obispo and now New York/Brooklyn/Dominicahassidica.The past months brought me something that I have been missing my whole life, a true connection with this landmass. I was able to see such amazing natural beauty, ponder the people of this land, spend time with Isadora, go wherever I wanted when I wanted, and figure my artistic body and expand my choreographic voice. The independence was exhilarating. In NY I am depressed roughly fifty-probably-sixty percent of the time, while traveling, toward the end, when I was used to seeing new things all the time and could anticipate my encounters, then my depression entered the van. That’s when I stopped blaming anyone else but myself. The depression changed into a puzzle. What did I do? How could I change it? Could I change anything? Do I care? I like the way I am, why would I want to change? I am still pondering these things and wondering if the energy I put into thinking about other people is a personal barrier. Or is it just the way I look? I’ve wondered that too. I’m not pretty, I’m not ugly; although, I know can be beautiful in the right light. My body is not great. Perhaps I’m just so averagewowmid-sentence I fell asleep for 45 minutes. Not very interested in non-existent issues. Many other things to think about, or just sleep. Sleeping is an entirely acceptable place to go when pondering one’s own looks.Onward and outward

Morro Bay (Morro Rock), CA

Avila Beach, CA

San Luis Obispo, CA... Sunrise... with Isadora

Photos... January 2009 (across the US, 1 week)

Posted by Ashley A. Friend on March 9, 2009 at 11:11pm

10 Ways to Engage Internet Audiences with Your Dance-Making

Posted by Doug Fox on March 9, 2009 at 11:37am

In a new Great Dance Post, "10 Ways to Engage Internet Audiences with Your Dance-Making" I include examples and videos of how dancers and choreographers are connecting in innovative ways with their online audiences.If you have examples of your own, please let me know about them.Thanks,Doug Fox Great Dance

FRAMEWORKS dance film screening | April 10th | Brooklyn, NY

Posted by Michael Bodel, FRAMEWORKS on March 3, 2009 at 12:35am

FRAMEWORKS is an on-going series in New York, that presents innovative works of choreography for the camera. Submission is rolling and the works are selected by panel based on creative merit and independent of production budget. The next screening will be at:Galapagos Art SpaceDUMBO, BrooklynApril 10th | 8pmTix: $10 (at the door)For more details including submission instructions and program information, please visitframeworksdance.orgThanks,Michael Bodel

A New Internet and Social Media Strategy for Dancers and Dance Companies

Posted by Doug Fox on March 2, 2009 at 11:05am

I just wrote post on my Great Dance blog:"A New Internet and Social Media Strategy for Dance Companies."I look forward to thoughts and feedback. And I'd also like to know if there are dancers and dance companies who are more or less pursuing the strategy that I describe in my post.Thanks!Doug FoxGreat Dance

Sustainable Presence: New Internet and Collaborative Dynamics

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on March 2, 2009 at 7:19am

Interactivity

Participation Smartmobs

Dancers and dance companies and PROCESS:

25: Details from Caleb Custer on Vimeo. DNA-world http://www.dna-world.net/video/preview-of-rache

WHAT IS GOING ON?

What is web 2.0 Application Programing Interface API IMPROV? PROCESS SIDE LOADING HORIZONTAL FLOW PRESENCE/TRACES/MEMORY? REAL-TIME/TELE-PRESENCE/CO-PRESENCE/ HOW ARE STORIES TOLD NOW? WHAT IS YOUR STORY? STORY AND BRANDING? KNOWLEDGE BASED MARKETING? NAME AND RECOGNITION? CONVERSATION? PLURAL? TOO MUCH? CHAOS? DANCING IN THE CROWD! TAGS. AGGREGATION. SUGGESTION SYSTEMS ATTENTION TARGETS/AUDIENCE/FRIENDS CHANGES: SOCIAL BOTTOM-UP/USER GENERATED CONTENT DISTRIBUTED PLATFORM/CONVERGENT AVAILABLE/AFFORDABLE OPEN/SHARING!!!!!!!! DEMOCRATIC CREATIVE COMMONS INTERNET ARCHIVES STEAL THIS FILM

MARKETING VS OPEN PROCESS/JOURNALS/SKETCHES CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT Clytemnestra ReMash Challenge 1rs fans Brooklyn Museum LEAN FORWARD VS LEAN BACK FORMS AND PLATFORMS: Blogs? RSS Social networks Facebook My Space Topical social networks dance-tech.net /modern_guest_new.html Microblogging: what are you doing right now? organizations as body Knowledge based marketing or just knowledge to engage? Beyond the gadgets? What do you think? REALY Openness and transparency SHARE IT! SOCIAL NETWORK BENEFITS GIVEN BY ORGANIZATIONS MEMBERS Individuals and Organizations Bottom up/Common Social Innovation Knowledge Backbone/Interviews

Collaborative Broadcasting dance-techTV

festival LP'09 dansa...o no. Barcelona 6th to 21rst March. Org. La Porta

Posted by helena febres fraylich on February 28, 2009 at 11:40pm

http://www.laportabcn.com/laportabcn/FestivalLP09.do?idio=en17 continuous days of programming with over 50 live arts projects that revolve around the body: performances, actions, installations, screenings, meetings and other frontier experiences that explore the notion of play, movement and theatricality.they will be there...Mauricio González, Vera Mantero, Angélica Liddell, Félix Fernández, Juan Navarro / Javier Corcobado, Alejandra Pombo, Teo Baró, Roger Bernat, Ariadna Estalella, Bea Fernández, Aimar Pérez Galí / Ricardo Santana / Guillem Mont de Palol, Cecilia Vallejos, Norberto Llopis, Silvia Sant Funk, João Costa Lima / Cecilia Colacrai, Maria Montseny / Anna Rubirola, Carla Fernández / Olatz de Andrés, Masu Fajardo, deepblue, Paula Caspão / Valentina Desideri, Vincent Dunoyer, Patricia Portela, Olga Mesa, Ivana Müller, Cuqui Jerez ,María Jerez, Juan Domínguez, Montse Penela, Aggtelek, Annika Larsson, Rubén Santiago, Alejandro Vidal, Nicola Unger, Elena Albert, Carmelo Salazar

Laura Peterson Choreography "Forever" REVIEW on "danceviewtimes"

Posted by Dance New Amsterdam on February 28, 2009 at 10:22pm

Laura Peterson Choreography"Forever"Performed by Christopher Hutchings, Kate Martel, Stephanie Miracle, Laura PetersonDance New Amsterdam, New YorkFebruary 19, 2009by Tom PhillipsCopyright 2009 by Tom Phillips“Modern Dance is Modern Art.” That’s what Laura Peterson tells her dance students, and it’s a teaching she follows rigorously in her company’s new work, “Forever.” This is dance strictly as a visual object, the elements being four dancers in four colors, moving on a white oval floor, among four faux Grecian columns and a mirrored rear wall. The set is vaguely reminiscent of the modernist paintings of Dali or de Chirico, but the dancing itself is even more abstract. Always a minimalist, Peterson makes art by strictly limiting her choices. In "Forever" there’s no emoting, no acting or miming, not even any touching. It’s just snippets of movement, driven by sound. Sometimes together and sometimes apart, the four run around in circles, march, jump, crawl, point, wiggle, spin and fall, roll, twiddle their fingers, bourree on their toes, cave in their chests, sprawl on the floor etc. and end up as they started, running around in circles. What’s going on? Turn the page.“Forever” is minimal, but the title hints at its ambitions. The score by Rob Erickson consists of 26 vocal motifs, an alphabet of “mouth music” looped and layered into short sections that contain elements of language but stop short of words. The choreography gives each section its own motif of repetitive movement – drawn from athletics and everyday life as well as ballet, modern dance, martial arts, and a kind of absurd industrial activity, such as walking around plucking things off invisible shelves. But just as the vocal score stops short of words, the movement stops short of any complete sequence of action. There’s no story at all. Like the first abstract expressionists, Peterson has returned to a pre-narrative world where color, shape and movement regain their original values. It works, because it makes you look again, for example at colors, brilliantly set off by the lighting and the luminous white floor. Peterson herself is in red but it’s not all red; she defies the laws of fashion with a top that’s more like orange.As for movement, watching Christopher Hutchings run, fall, roll, and shake himself off is like watching a good ballplayer do his work on the diamond. Rough and fuzzy around the edges, he’s the opposite pole to Peterson’s focused, driven energy. These two have collaborated for years now, so closely that they can do the same movement in perfect sync, and communicate two different feelings and intentions. Man at work, young woman willing to sacrifice herself to save the world. Peterson sometimes has the inspired, haunted look of Joan of Arc.What? Can an abstract work of art have such lofty intentions? I remember being struck by one explanation proposed for the rise of abstract painting in the early 20th century, that it was a protest against a world that had become too brutal and noxious to engage on its own terms. Consider that just a few years ago, Laura Peterson was a satirist. Her 2005 “Security” was a spoof on our national obsession with tracking each other, performed on hands and knees in insect garb under a bank of surveillance cameras. But satire seems an inadequate response to the world meltdown-in-progress of 2009. Maybe the answer is to retreat into timeless, fundamental categories of perception, to preserve something human amidst the wreckage.Not incidentally, “Forever” is a pleasure to watch. You can take it simply as a kaleidoscope, with the sound score acting as the engine to turn the lens and set off a new series of changes every two minutes or so. The sound is loud and funny, with many references to the rough rhythms of everyday life, such as a repeated “boom – boom WHOMP” that sounds like the old applause machine at Shea Stadium, which is now, not incidentally, a pile of wreckage, replaced by a field named for an insolvent bank.The nice thing about “Forever” is that it can remind you of anything. Besides baseball I was thinking of “Finnegans Wake,” which also has a circular structure, four parts, repetitive themes and snippets of action rather than a narrative. The point of Joyce’s masterwork was that nothing is lost in the great river of civilization, that everything that disappears will rise again. The point of “Forever” could be that when human beings hear sound in rhythm, they have to move, and that’s what makes the river run.“Forever” continues through Sunday February 22 at Dance New Amsterdam.Copyright 2009 by Tom PhillipsPhoto by Elle Chyun

Sophie Kahn and Lisa Parra Explore DIY Lasers in "body/traces"

Posted by Doug Fox on February 27, 2009 at 12:56pm

I just posted "'body/traces" Exploring Movement with DIY Lasers and 3D Animation" to Great Dance.New media artist Sophie Kahn and choreographer Lisa Parra are exploring do-it-yourself (DIY) laser scanner technology and stop-motion 3D animation for their video installation "body/traces.In this post, I include other examples of the use of structured light and lasers for stop-motion animations and data visualizations.Best,Doug FoxGreat Dance

Screentest Fest

Posted by CreationEditor on February 27, 2009 at 9:45am

Sabine Klaus' A_WAY_AWAY is screening at

The UK’s National Student Film Festival. Created in 2004 as a platform to showcase student filmmaking talent from around the UK the festival recently enjoyed its fourth year with the 2008 event taking place over the weekend of the 29th February - 2nd March. Screentest will return to The University of Bristol Students’ Union, Bristol on the 6th - 8th March, 2009.Over the course of the weekend the year’s selection of student-made short films was shown alongside a great programme of guest speakers hosting Q & A sessions, talks and workshops. 2008 saw contributions from BAFTA award winner Luis Cook, young director Vicky Jewson as well as workshops hosted by Leopard Films, Jill Raistrick, David Bekkevold, Alex Kirkland and NFTS talent scout Paul Green. Previous years have seen guests such as Director Ken Loach, Actress Emily Watson, Screenwriter David Nicholls, Chairman of BAFTA Duncan Kenworthy, and UK Film Council Chairman Stewart Till.http://www.screentestfest.org.uk/

BIG

Posted by CreationEditor on February 27, 2009 at 9:30am

TRENCH is screening at

Big in Falkirk, Scotland's National Street Arts Festival is back for its 10th year on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May 2009.Big in Falkirk 2009 will run from 12pm to 11pm both days.Since its inception in 2000, this award-winning, FREE weekend extravaganza has become one of the largest cultural events in Scotland, attracting over 100,000 people. Located in Falkirk’s stunning 180-acre Callendar Park, the cutting-edge entertainment features a wide variety of spectacular outdoor theatre, pyrotechnic displays, art, comedy and big name music acts alongside activities for all ages.Big in Falkirk showcases the finest, most original outdoor contemporary theatre, whilst also working closely with the best artists in their field and nurturing creativity. Previous festivals have included world premieres such as Walk the Plank’s magical Swan Song. UK premieres have included Groupe F (the company responsible for illuminating the Eiffel Tower during the millennium celebrations), Compagnie Jo Bithume, Plasticiens Volants and Teatre Osmego D’nia.Alongside this, Big in Falkirk presents some of the most popular names in music having previously welcomed Snow Patrol, The Stranglers, Deacon Blue, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to the music stage. The festival has also managed to secure acts just before they hit the big time, with McFly, Orson and Sandi Thom celebrating Number One singles during or immediately after rocking Big in Falkirk.To become one of Big in Falkirk's friends, visit our MySpace site here.http://www.myspace.com/biginfalkirk

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robot can dance 'the robot'

Posted by Brittany on February 26, 2009 at 10:00pm

Check out this link:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090225073357.htmI would love to see a reality t.v. show pitting human dancers against robot dancers...oh snap!

Moves09

Posted by CreationEditor on February 26, 2009 at 2:17pm

TRENCH is screening athttp://www.movementonscreen.org.uk/moves returns to Manchester and the UK from 23 to 28 April 2009.Now in its 5th year, moves is established as the largest exhibition platform in the UK for experimental short film and new media with a unique focus on movement on screen, exploring new ways of telling stories through films, installations and screen-based works.2008 was the year of music, questioning the interaction of sound and movement on screen; moves09 will be looking at stories beyond movement, exploring the narrative possibilities of movement on screen through screenings, installations, live events, open-source forums…moves is the largest exhibition platform in the UK for experimental short film and new media with a unique focus on movement on screen, exploring new ways of telling stories through films, installations and screen-based works.Wherever you live, you can catch moves:in Manchester and the North West with a 6-day festival exploring movement on screen through screenings, installations, workshops and open-space forums;in the UK on the BBC Big Screens and in selected venues such as Sadler's Wells and Glasgow CCA;worldwide with a year-round tour taking moves' favourites as far as Hungary, Russia and Brazil.

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Dancing with Zoetropes - Part II

Posted by Doug Fox on February 26, 2009 at 12:36pm

Last September, I wrote a post "Zoetrope: Creating the Illusion of Movement Through Present Times."In a new post that I just wrote, I include more video examples of dance and movement zoetropes:- A video of a traditional zoetrope that feature multiple dance styles.- A promotional video for an Istanbul film festival that features an imaginative take on zoetropes.- An update on the work of dancer and choreographer Chirstinn Whyte and photographer and digital artist Jake Messenger.- The restoration of Bill Brand's 1980 public art work "Masstransiscope" in the New York City Subway. And,- Sony's massive, ten-ton zoetrope, the BRAVIA-drome in Venaria, Italy.If you know of more examples of zoetropes, especially dance related, please let me know about them.Best,Doug FoxGreat Dance

The Best Internet Videos from a Ballet or Dance Company

Posted by Doug Fox on February 25, 2009 at 12:49pm

I just wrote post on Great Dance blog: "The Best Internet Videos from a Ballet or Dance Company."What are your favorites?Best,Doug FoxGreat Dance

Test_Lab: Artistic Interfaces

Posted by V2_ on February 25, 2009 at 9:45am

Test_Lab is a bi-monthly public event organized by V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media that provides an informal setting for the presentation, demonstration, testing, and discussion of artistic research and development (aRt&D).

V2_ Ground floor, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam. March 12, 2009, 8 p.m. Admission: free.
In this edition of Test_Lab, the outcome of artistic experiments in (counter-) intuitive Artistic Interfaces will be elaborated upon by interaction maker and researcher Kristina Andersen. While designers aim to advance interfaces to more intuitive use, through notions such as metaphor, artists often take a radically different approach, by incorporating counter-intuitive responses. This tension will be exemplified through demonstrations of the intuitive software design of Watch That Sound (Jacques van de Veerdonk and V2_Lab), a preview of the adaptive physical space of Liquid Space 6.0 (Studio Roosegaarde), and the body interface and tangible interaction prototypes of Dark Matter (Tom Heene and the Center for User Experience Research, KU Leuven) and Cubebrowser (Ludwig Zeller). The audience, in the tradition of Test_Lab, is once again invited to actively engage with the demonstrated works and put their use to the test.Full program description: www.v2.nlThis event will be streamed live at http://live.v2.nlKristina Andersenwww.lockergirl.comThe Watch That Sound tool is a co-production between Jacques van de Veerdonk and V2_Lab. www.watchthatsound.nlCubeBrowser is a project by Ludwig Zeller in collaboration with Martin Nawrath, Nando Nkrumah, Bernd Voss, Charlotte Krauss, Andreas Muxel, Heinz Nink and Lasse Scherffig.www.cubebrowser.deDark Matter is a project initiated by media artist Tom Heene and the Center for User Experience Research - CUO (KU Leuven, Dries De Roeck & Dirk Bollen). It is developed in collaboration with LAHAAG (Pieter Heremans & Gert Aertsen), NODEBOX (Lievn Menschaert & Tom De Smedt) and WICA (UGent, Kris Vanhecke & Tom Deryckere). Dark Matter is an Art&D project funded by the IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology). It has the support of XenICs and iMAL (Center for Digital Cultures and Technology).soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/artdLiquid Space 6.0 was developed by Daan Roosegaarde and the Studio Roosegaarde team (Peter de Man, Axis Stuifmeel and project staff).www.studioroosegaarde.netFor more information, please contact Michel van Dartel,E: michel@v2.nlT: +31 (0)10 2067272.

Broadcasting in dance-techTV: London and New York/Brunel University and Performance Mix Festival

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on February 25, 2009 at 7:00am

Hello dance-techers! Remember to tune in to watch interesting and exciting LIVE broadcasts: Wednesday February 25th INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE SERIES: Dancing Sprites and Digitized Spaces LIVE Lecture from London Saturday February 28th and Saturday March 7th: Performance Mix Festival LIVE Performance from Joyce SOHO, New York City Ah Remember! Formal launching of dance-techTV this Sunday March 1st The first network for collaborative broadcasting and p2p production for dance-tech.net members. Dance is now LIVE on the web! Become a dance-techTV co-producer: broadcast your performances, lectures, rehearsals, documentaries, teach on-line, collaborative interdisciplinary projects, get your own dance-techTV channel... Interested? email: marlon@dance-tech.net

Seeking Female Identical Twins for Interactive Performance at Eyebeam NYC...

Posted by Di on February 25, 2009 at 12:27am

Identical Twins?Do you know any female identical twins?Attractively quirky or quirkily attractiveBetween the ages of 16 and 35

call for twins.pdfDress size: Approximately US size 6 – 8We are looking for female identical twins to collaborate in an exciting and innovative artisticproject called SHAREWEAR. The work will be shown as part of the MIXER event taking place atEyebeam in NYC between Friday 6th and Saturday 7th of March. Working with British artist DiMainstone, the twins would be asked to model two extraordinary interactive couture dresses aspart of a live performance. Rehearsal would be required prior to the event and a fee isavailable for both nights. For further information and images please see the new SHAREWEARwebsite and film:http://sharewear.projects.v2.nl/index.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kc41dKjA1cEyebeam website:http://eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=eventsThe MIXER at Eyebeam looks set to be a memorable evening of innovative creativity, so if you orany of your identical twin friends would like to get involved, please contact:Di Mainstone at:dimainstone@hotmail.com

MIMS "Move" - High-Speed Cameras and Time Displacement

Posted by Doug Fox on February 24, 2009 at 12:46pm

I just wrote post on Great Dance about a number of examples of dance/movement videos shot with high-speed scientific cameras and others that use different approaches to time displacement.If you know of examples of other dance/movement videos in these categories, I'd be delighted to hear about them.Thanks,Doug FoxGreat Dance

Putting the "Social" in "Social Media"

Posted by Doug Fox on February 23, 2009 at 12:44pm

I just wrote post on Great Dance Blog about how the Brooklyn Museum uses Twitter to engage with their audience:"Brooklyn Museum Adds the "Social" to Their "Social Media" Campaigns"I'm very interested in hearing from dancers, choreographers, new media artists and others on how you are using social media ( Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, photo-sharing and other applications) to engage with your audiences in new ways -- whether it is for collaborative art-making, marketing, or any other purpose.I'm looking for these stories for upcoming posts on Great Dance.Thanks!Best,Doug Foxdoug@greatdance.com http://greatdance.com http://twitter.com/dougfox

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