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ITP-Dance NYU Kimmel Center Performance

Dance, Video March 17th, 2006

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(Sorry for not writing about this before it happened… too busy making it happen!)

The ITP-Dance performance at the NYU Tisch Graduate Student Organization Spring Festival was a success! Last few days have been even more hectic than usual, so only writing about it now.

Our theme is the city and this piece explores the idea of crowds, compression/decompression and repetition. The inspiration comes from the New York subway experience. The setting (Kimmel Center) was great, with a massive projection screen behind the dancers.

Here is our rough cut video (9MB .mov).

One issue I’ve been struggling with when combining dance and video is where the audience should direct their attention. There is definitely the tendency to switch back and forth between the dancers and video. I find the ending the most satisfying, in part because of the contrast between the stillness on the stage and the frenetic video.

We’re not sure what our next step will be yet. We’re taking a short break then setting our next target!

One Response to “ITP-Dance NYU Kimmel Center Performance”

  1. Michael Ang » CMR Open Studios Says:
    August 8th, 2006 at 12:14 am

    [...] Opening night of open studios at the Megashear Ranch was last night. Lots of great works on display. I made an installation of my Dance Loop that I used for a dance performance with the NYU-ITP dance collaboration and I have an Inverse Parasol kicking around (works great with the video installation). At the opening a bunch of small extremely active humans were really into the installation and just going totally nuts and running around non-stop. The kids could be coaxed to stop and move slowly, but I literally had to take them by the hand [...]

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