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VR_Ii s a 100% virtual dance piece in which five spectators are immersed together and in real time in a virtual space. Immersive and contemplative, the performance invites viewers, or rather their avatars to follow their own point of view. The viewers-turned-camera move around inside the installation as protagonists of their own experience.Thanks to motion capture technology, we are now capable of reproducing dance in all its fluidity. Although the set, the environment and the dancers’ envelope are virtual, movement itself is very real. Artanim’s technology is a giant step for viewer immersion by combining real and virtual environments. Thus, the boundaries between dancer and viewer are removed and both move on the same plane, at the same time and in the same space, at the crossroads of reality and ‘virtuality’.With this unique installation, the performance addresses our perception of reality and our ability to adapt instantly to possible worlds—worlds that we accept as long as they meet certain criteria of our reality. In VR_I, viewers and dancers are subject to the same physical laws, they share the horizontal axis. The actual presence of the viewers’ bodies inside a coherent physical space allows for surprising effects of scale. Thus, as they stumble into a full-scale desert, viewers-travellers can find themselves face to face with 30-metre high dancers or later, notice tiny dancers at their feet

http://www.vr-i.space/

Documentary about the dance and “Normality” Symposium presenting ideas and works from international artists and scholars, who problematize notions of normality and ideology in contemporary dance practices.

Conversation with Risa Steinberg @ ImPulsTanz 2014 about her teaching approach and thoughts about dance education technique and more. Produced by Marlon Barrios Solano for dance-tech.tv

Conversation with movement artists and contemplative dance Barbara Dilley at SILO during a retreat focused on contemplative dance. July 20113. She takes us to connect John cage, Merge Cunningham,Judson Church, Grand Union and her experience ad the creator/educator of the Dance program of Naropa University. Thanks to Barbara Dilley and Lisa Kraus produced by marlon […]

Conversation with Brazilian choreographer Marcelo Evelin about his piece Suddenly Everywhere is Black with People premiered in Berlin at Tanz Im August 2014. http://english.tanzimaugust.de/programme/festival-plan/marcelo-evelin-suddenly/1080/ From the website: Does black still stand for the unknown, the primordial and darkness? With the German premiere Suddenly everywhere is black with people, the Brazilian choreographer Marcelo Evelin sets out […]

We have the opportunity to interview Alessandro Sciarroni in occasion of his Berlin premiere of his solo Joseph during Tanz Im August 2014. http://english.tanzimaugust.de/programme/festival-plan/alessandro-sciarroni-untitled-joseph/1074/ From the festival website In Joseph Sciarroni plays live with Chatroulette, a social network that puts people from all over the world in contact with one another at random – like […]

Skype conversation with movement artist, researcher author Kent DeSpain about his new book The Landscape of the Now; A Topography of Movement Improvisation.

Conversation with Glenna Batson about her book new book “Body and Mind in Motion: dance and neuroscience in conversation”

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Mind-Motion-Neuroscience-Conversation/dp/1783201797

Metabody Interviews – Isabelle Choiniere and Marlon Barrios Solano

THE PUBLIC COMMONS AND THE UNDERCOMMONS OF ART, EDUCATION, AND LABOR, Germany
International conference hosted by the MA program Choreography and Performance
Documentation of the event.

BMW Tate Live: Performance Room – Daniel Linehan

How is it possible for body and mind to exist as an integrated whole? The Chilean neurobiologist Francisco Varela devoted his entire life – from childhood to death to answering this question.

I made this film in 2008-2009 after working in Montpellier with 6M1L. A version of the text is available at Everybody’s.com. It’s specifically a document of that 6 month working period during which I was touring with Deborah Hay and Zoo, teaching at Exerce, and conducting interviews and developing personal performance practices with the 16 participants of 6M1L. Since then, the drawing practice has become almost daily, but I no longer jump rope.

Corporeal Computing conference, co-hosted by the School of Arts and Computing Department, University of Surrey.

Michelle Boulé interviewed by Marin Sander-Holzman at Mount Tremper Arts, 2013. Produced by Marin Media Lab.

Images from performance of performance form Michelle Boulé, Lindsay Clark and cellist Okkyung Lee at the beautiful Mount Tremper Arts in the Catskills, NY, USA.

In June 2013, I visited Peaks Island, Maine just off the coast of Portland. I found this amazing artist that have created an Umbrella Cover Museum.
I interviewed Nancy 3. Hoffman, its creator and curator and she explains the evolution of the project, her concept and vision.

The 1st. International Conference on “Multimodal Communication: Language, Performance and Digital Media” was organized in the framework of TKB – A Transmedia Knowledge-Base For Performing Arts project conclusion (http://tkb.fcsh.unl.pt) and aimed to: present the results and software tools developed during the TKB project; provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from different disciplines and artists interested […]

The 1st. International Conference on “Multimodal Communication: Language, Performance and Digital Media” wss organized in the framework of TKB – A Transmedia Knowledge-Base For Performing Arts research project conclusion (http://tkb.fcsh.unl.pt) and aimed to: present the results and software tools developed during the TKB project; provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from different disciplines and artists […]

Berlin ist nicht nur voller Einwohner und Besucher, sondern auch voller Erinnerungen, Geschichten und damit verbundenen Gefühlen. Der Stadt haftet etwas Menschliches an. Sie gleicht einem atmenden Organismus. Auf der emotionalen Landkarte sind einige Orte präsenter als andere, die vergleichsweise ein Schattendasein führen. Studierende des Hochschulübergreifenden Zentrums Tanz Berlin (HZT) nehmen den Slogan ‘be Berlin […]