What Is Performance?

BA Performing Arts @ DMU

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Night Terrors

Night Terrors is an augmented reality horror survival game that is being developed for smart phones. The game scans your surroundings and builds an internal map to determine how best to scare you as you wander around in search of a young girl in need of rescue. The game utilizes your flash and camera while you have your headphones plugged in for the audio.

You will walk around your surroundings while coming face to face with various supernatural or creepy things such as ghosts, clowns, spiders, and demons. We don’t know if the game contains jump scares as of yet since it is still seeking funding on indiegogo.

You can help fund it HERE and watch the trailer HERE

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Border

Project from Elevenplay and Rhizomatiks is a mixed reality dance performance featuring robotic wheelchairs, custom HMDs and dancing in both the real and the virtual:

“border” is an innovative style of dance performance since it consists of the participation of both dancer and audience. Audiences are able to feel the installation space with their senses by riding personal mobilities all controlled by the system. 10 WHILLs -the personal mobility audiences ride- are prepared, so that 10 people can join at one time of the performance. This means, audiences who do not ride WHILL can enjoy the stage from outside of the performance area. Those who rides WHILL, put on headset formed display of virtual reality at first, and the small camera is set up on the surface of that display. These WHILLs are controlled by the system through radio wave, so that people cannot control them directly, and 10 WHILLs move on the stage in each speed and movement  by the control of automatic computer programs. “WHILL” is produced by the WHILL Inc.

With the start of dance performance, audiences can see the virtual space of the stage through the display they put on, and also the real scene through the camera set up on the headset formed display. AR, augmented reality, enables people to enjoy both scenes of virtual and real, so that they can appreciate the stage from each point of view while each WHILL moves around. On the stage, some dancers of ELEVENPLAY share the space with WHILL, and perform their dance. In the AR, the seamless transition of real movements of real dancers and virtual movements of virtual dancers on the data, are showed to audiences on the WHILL. Then audiences can be greatly excited by the both worlds of spatial and physical expression. Since real dancers touch audiences sometimes, they may be pulled back to the real space, and realized themselves as the real physical existence. This installation space will be presented as one that can be appreciated from outside of the stage as well.

Here is a view of the whole performance from the outside:

More Here

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VIDEO: A look into mixed reality, virtual reality, and augmented reality

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LEVITATION

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Tori wranes, Drastic Pants.

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Body Awareness

Lima, Perú

Music: Two Men in Love by The Irrepressibles

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(vía https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkdJEAnYji8)

It is the best presentation of sia I’ve seen!

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His body language is another sort of art

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Gestural studies with no audience

Body as both the vehicle and the subject of exploration.

Ionas Laine

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Motion Control 

How has the dance been remediated for screen?

- different use of locations - street, house, studio etc.

- camera - our point of view and perspective, birdseye views, extreme close ups, dancer engages with camera

- choreography - simple, gestural, sound heightens movements - makes it effective

- communicates ideas of - mental health, possesed, spirits, isolation, being controlled

- heavily edited - all effects, backwards movements which has been played in reverse 

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Que Pasa

How has the dance been remediated for screen?

- extreme close up - camera is still throughout, fixed in one position

- animation - heavily edited to black and white

- unclear of location - can presume its a club

- salsa choreography - focus on the waist and hips

- the editing changes the meaning - if we could see the woman, it would represent how men see women as objects however, making it animated allows us to focus on just the movements. 

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Le P’tit Bal

How has the dance been remediated for screen?

- location - outside in a field

- duet choreography

- fixed camera at the front 

- close ups on different body parts - eyes, hands

- intricate quick movements

- gestural - sign language

- been sped up - the grass swishes at different paces

- panning shot

- repetitive in movements and angles

- use of props

- different use of camera angles and shots depending upon who the performer is that is being focused on at the time 

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Justin Bieber - Love Yourself

How has the dance been remediated for screen?

- tells a story

- filming in mirrors - use the relfection as opposed to the live body

- duet choreography as well as solo bits

- location - different rooms in a house

- camera is fairly still throughout - usually fixed in one place

- complex and intricate choreography which contrasts with the use of simple camera shots

- gestura movements - using landscape and whats around them for their choreography

- represents relationships - distance and breakdown