Archive for the ‘Dance/Performance’ Category
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
Site? What site?
These posts are out of order today, but just give your scroll wheel a workout and you’ll be up to speed in no time. I’d previously documented three different urban sites (Target Field Plaza, Peavey Plaza and the Church Street & Scholars Walk intersection), but none of them was really grabbing my attention as I […]
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Tags: fabric, Rapson Hall, site, site specific, 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
VisioLuxus – Membrane III
Oh Flickr, I have no idea how to get you to link photos adequately in here. Or how to format these crazy posts once I get them here. Sigh. Anyway, these photos by VisioLuxus Photography’s Elisa Lazo de Valdez are simply stunning. The way the body is highlighted through the interaction with fabric has been […]
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Tags: beautiful, fabric, highlight, inspiration, interaction
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
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
Busking, also call street performing, is performing in a public place for voluntary donations. In Minneapolis, buskers are usually musicians playing on Nicollet Mall or in Dinkytown. In other parts of the world, though, buskers entertain with a wide variety of arts: juggling, painting, sidewalk chalk, living statues, mimes, fortune tellers, magicians, and dancers. In […]
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Tags: busking, dance, deployment, performance
Dancing Fabric-an architectural thesis 