Posts Tagged ‘performance’
The little site scientist
My adviser, Marc, has continually been encouraging me to be rigorous and follow a control and variable method of experimentation. I’m trying to be scientific and actually stick with it. What usually happens is that I’ll do a few experiments and then follow one meandering branch a ways and never getting around to doubling back [...]
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Tags: fabric, Marc Swackhamer, models, movement, performance, rhino, site specific, test
Openings
The site-based investigations have all maintained a neutral surface. It’s in keeping with the minimal character of the dances that have inspired it (Serif and Flow). Here are two full-scale tests of how to make a minimal opening that maintains the surface quality of the fabric as much as possible. This test overlapped two pieces [...]
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Tags: detail, fabric, full-scale, mock-ups, opening, performance, test
Synchronous Objects
This project is astounding! Go look at it and then come back here. Go on, go. Amazing, right? My colleague, Lindy thought this might interest me and boy was she right! Compared with my work in analyzing two dances with 2-3 dancers, the sheer scope of this project humbles me. The rigor of the analysis [...]
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Tags: amazing awesomeness, analysis, dance, geometry, inspiration, interaction, movement, performance, presentation, representation, video
Process work – planes
Getting some photos up of my process work has been on the to-do list for days. Finally, and without further ado, some images. These models are looking at ways to bridge the gap between the digital studies of the Flying Foot Forum pieces, Flow and Serif, and the use of fabric in physical models. First [...]
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Tags: fabric, Flow, light, models, performance, time
Form Constant
This is an amazing MFA thesis project by dancer Hope Goldman. It reminds me that I’d talked about light and lighting earlier in the semester and now it’s time to bring it back as I start/try to finalize this project. (Via BoingBoing)
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Tags: dance, data, fluid dynamics, inspiration, kinetic, light, movement, performance, temporal, video
IOGraph and Dance Analysis
I was recently introduced to the program IOGraph. It’s a free download program that tracks your mouse as it moves across the screen. When paired with video it can act as a simple motion capture program. Here’s an example of the tracking I did for the fifth minute of the piece Flow, from Flying Feet-The [...]
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Tags: analysis, iograph, models, performance, progress
Architecture and Costumes
As I move in the direction of creating a wearable, body-centric structure, the question arises, How does wearable, body-centric architecture differ from costumes? Looking to the costumes from the Broadway version of The Lion King does not clarify anything. From Disney’s Behind the Scenes: The Lion King is unique in that we see how the [...]
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Tags: architecture, costume, critics, dance, fretting, performance
The excellent feedback from my review has settled into three categories: the acoustic structure, the kineticstructure and the body-centric structure. Acoustic Reviewers Blaine Brownell and Blair Satterfield had excellent suggestions for acoustic structures: rain sticks, taiko drums, etc. Gayla Lindt was captivated by the thought of the fabric itself making noise-snapping open and swishing against [...]
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Tags: categories, Diente, fabric, Hadid, Knudson, performance, sculpture, Singing Ringing Tree, structure, where do we go from here?
Oskar Schlemmer
The Bauhaus does not disappoint. The work of Oskar Schlemmer, the sculpture cum stage shop director, jumps back and forth across the line between costume and architecture with acute attention to the geometry of the components. These are beautiful costumes. The video, though, shows that although the wearer can dance in these costumes, there doesn’t [...]
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Tags: Bauhaus, costume, dance, geometry, movement, Oskar Schlemmer, performance
Bat Wing and Body Acoustic
For the final week of the Body Acoustic course, the assignment was to design and construct a prop and perform with it. I took this as the perfect jump-start to building a full-scale mock-up of the bat wing model I made early in the semester. Here’s a very early mock-up to test the channel at [...]
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Tags: architecture, Body Acoustic, Dana Reitz, dance, deployment, fabric, Leslie VanDuzer, models, movement, performance
