Workshop with Collective (gulp)
Sun 24 Apr 11.30am–1pm
“Composition on the Fly: Improvisation and Contact Improvisation for Dancemaking”
This workshop will explore scores and structures for making dance performances that can be used as the foundations for choreography or for improvisational performances. Solo, duet and group forms will be used as we look at framing, dynamics, focus and flow. The emphasis will be on the performing body and the imagination.
Previous dance/movement experience not required.
Duration: 1hr 30mins
Collective (gulp) is Alexis Kate Andrew and Elizabeth MacKinnon, Ottawa-based dance iconoclasts who create and present work that buzzes with humour, intensity and intelligence. Together they possess a half-century of dance experience, with extensive study and performance in Canada, the US, and Europe.
Mobile Video Workshop with Camille Baker
Tue 26 Apr 3.30 pm
Come get involved in a participatory performance art project using mobile video. Canadian media artist and curator, Camille Baker, will guide you through a series of activities using and creating personal abstract videos to explore ways to communicate visually, gesturally and non-verbally repurposing the mobile device’s means of communication and expression. Participants are asked to bring their own video phone or camera phones and an open mind.
Duration: approx. 90-120 mins
Camille Baker is a performing artist, researcher and curator within various art forms: interactive and performance installation, music composition and performance, video art, web animation, and experience design.
FULLY BOOKED
Creative Software Workshop with Mark Coniglio
26 Apr 11.30am–6pm
Mark Coniglio, Artistic Co-Director of Troika Ranch and creator of the real-time media manipulation software Isadora®, will give a one-day workshop that introduces participants to basic strategies and techniques for integrating interactive media with live performance. After an introduction to the basics of Isadora®, he will guide students through the practical, scenographic, and dramaturgical implications of adding live media to performances intended for the stage.
Duration: 6hrs 30mins (including a lunch break)
Recognized as a pioneering force in the integration of dance and media, composer/media artist Mark Coniglio creates large-scale performance works that integrate music, dance, theater and interactive media. With choreographer Dawn Stoppiello he is co-founder of Troika Ranch, a dance theater company committed to creating hybrid, media intensive performances. As Troika Ranch, they have been honored with a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award, a prize from Prix Ars Electronica, and the Eddy Award from Live Design magazine.
From the start, Coniglio‘s artistic practice has included the creation of custom interactive systems that allow performers to manipulate video, sound, and light in real-time. His first technological breakthrough came in 1989 when he created MidiDancer, a wireless system that allowed a performer to interactively control music. His passion for giving control to the performer led him to create the award-winning software Isadora®, a flexible graphic programming environment that provides interactive control over digital media. Isadora® is now the tool of choice for hundreds of artist’s worldwide including such notables as The Wooster Group, Morton Subotnick, Bebe Miller and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Workshop with Frieder Weiss
“Perceivable Bodies: Workshop for Innovative Video Technologies in Performance and Installation”
27 Apr 11.30am–6pm
The workshop gives a practical introduction into artistic uses of video motion sensing technologies. The workshop will introduce Eyecon and Kalypso software. Eyecon links physical movement spaces with computer generated sound environments. Kalypso software allows visual effects based on body outlines. In the workshop participants will be able to understand and learn the basics of the software, set up a customized interactive environment and get a chance to move and try out the experience. Experienced computer users are invited to attach systems which they are using: you will be able to interface to systems like MaxMsp, Flash, Isadora etc. A discussion about artistic implications and results will round up the workshop.
Duration: 6hrs 30mins (including a lunch break)
Frieder Weiss is an engineer in the arts and expert in real-time computing and interactive computer systems in performance art, living in Nürnberg and Berlin. He is the author of EyeCon and Kalypso, video motion sensing programs especially designed for use with dance, music and computer art. Among other works Frieder developed the video technologies and interactive stage projections for Chunky Move’s recent intermedia works ‘Glow’ and ‘Mortal Engine’. For his contribution on ‘Glow’ he was rewarded with a ‘Green Room Award’ for ‘Design in Dance’. Both pieces have been touring for many years now, including venues like BAM (New York), The Edinburgh Festival, The Sydney Opera House.
“Crossing the border from light to human” – The New York Times
ZECORA URA / HOTEL MEDEA present Creative Technology Course
Mon 25 – Fri 29 Apr 9am–6pm
Creative Technology with established performance practitioners. The course will de-mystify communication technology and multi-media equipment. The week will focus on the cutting edge area of multimedia performance works that challenge the boundaries of 21st century performance practice, and the cross-platform relationships between music, text, technology and theatre. Participants will set about filming themselves, creating little pieces of art or recording an idea in a digital format. By the end of the project participants will be able to conceive, devise and record their own individual work.