A Dancing Geek’s dream

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

If you haven’t seen me twitter relentlessly about this then go check out the synchronous objects website.

They’ve taken video of a wonderful contemporary dance piece called ‘One Flat Thing, reproduce’ by William Forsythe and created computer imagery in order to help pull out the themes, movements styles, cueing, counterpoint and various other details that make this piece so exciting.

If you’ve ever watched dance and thought “I don’t get it” go check out the synchronous objects site.

Now this is how you use technology to enliven art and bring it to people who wouldn’t normally find it accessible.  I’m in love!

If you want to know where I found out about it, check out the Great Dance blog.

Want to see more? Try one of these posts:

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2 comments

Doug Fox:
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It’s intriguing explore the Synchronous Objects website. It will take me a few days to figure out how all the pieces fit together.

Thanks for mentioning Great Dance and here’s is my new post about this project:
http://greatdance.com/thekineticinterface/2009/04/synchronous-objects-william-forsythe/

Best,
Doug

Doug Fox’s last blog post..Exploring William Forsythe’s "Synchronous Objects" Website

April 2nd, 2009 at 11:03 am
James | Dancing Geek:
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They have produced a wonderful mix of annotations to the dance piece, that enhance the ability to see the complex patterns involved, as well as producing new visualisations from the work and also tools to help explore some of the themes drawn out from the original choreography.

It is a delight to see dance being studied so in a way that I find wholly more accessible than tedious academic books, and hopefully also therefore being made more available to others, as well as seeing a real combination between two areas that I enjoy so much: dance and computing.

That they have presented this over the internet brings me great pleasure as well. I am at once jealous, inspired, and overjoyed.

April 3rd, 2009 at 3:10 am

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