#MetaAcademy, an online lab exploring embodiment & co-creation on the internet – first realized at Bates Dance Festival 2013 by Marlon Barrios Solano, Rachel Boggia and me, was featured in the January 2014 issue of Contact Quarterly, with an Editor’s Note by Nancy Stark Smith. Some very interesting discussions around embodiment and presence occurred – specifically, the nature […]
#MetaAcademy @ Bates Dance Festival
#MetaAcademy is an online lab exploring embodiment and co-creation on the internet using movement and other improvisational ideas. How can embodied knowledge be shared and deepened through the internet? What unique forms of collaborative learning and creative activity might the internet offer? Minded Motion was #MetaAcademy’s 3-week pilot program and collaborative learning lab which ran […]
Selma Jeanne Cohen Award
I was honored to receive Fulbright’s esteemed Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for international scholarly research on dance in 2012. At the Annual Fulbright Conference in London that year, I gave a presentation entitled “Instant Online Collaboration: Just Add Dance” focused on the use of dance frameworks for online collaboration and linking physical to digital actions. At […]
Instant Online Collaboration: Just Add Dance
The Creating Participatory Learning Through Performance workshop was part of the MobilityShifts: Future of Learning Summit. It focused on improvisational performance as a framework for online collaboration and distributed learning. By leveraging the affordances of shared virtual world space and creative frameworks, we can build richer online rapport and an optimal environment for instant collaboration and participatory […]
dance-tech@ interview | Robyn Orlin
dance-tech@ interview | Robyn Orlin | Peak Performances @ Montclair State University Shot and edited interview featuring South African choreographer Robyn Orlin for dance-tech.tv Interview with Robyn Orlin Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University Montclair, New Jersey 20 February 2011 dance-tech@ interviews produced by Marlon Barrios Solano http://www.dance-tech.net Co-producer for dance-tech.net: Josephine Dorado dance-tech@ interviews […]
Firsthand Performances
Firsthand Performances was a hybrid live installation and performance at the Encuentro Festival in Bogota, Colombia, realized by Nohemi Montzerrat Contreras and Josephine Dorado. The project explored the fusion of physical and online performance and invited public thoughts on ideas of “performance.” We dressed the space with various and sundry costumes, wigs, and other funky accoutrement […]
what I think is so cool abt Streb’s choreography in ‘Catapult’ is the defiance of gravity-almost an unwillingness to succumb… Posted from: NY, USA Streb’s “action heroes” performing during Catapult, Friday, 10 April 2009 I wish I had had my little Flip cam to catch the action because this image doesn’t quite capture the compelling […]
3×3 / 30×30
3×3 / 30×30 was a mixed reality performance that incorporated live dance and video in Rome and the virtual world Second Life. It was performed as part of the Romaeuropa Festival 2007. Choreographer Paul André Fortier performed his piece 30×30 in which he danced a 30-minute solo everyday, at the same time, for 30 days, […]
ISIM performance with Ione & Pauline Oliveros
ISIM performance with Ione & Pauline Oliveros This performance was a mixed-reality improvisation between performers in the virtual world of Second Life and performers in Real Life at the International Society of Improvised Music (ISIM). ISIM is an interdisciplinary conference that brings together performers, educators, researchers, students and community members from across the world, in an effort […]
RPM’s Remixed
RPM’s Remixed was a telematic, transdisciplinary performance based on remixing Alvin Lucier’s RPM’s score – integrating dance, video and sound improvisation. It was simultaneously performed in New York, Los Angeles, Tampa and Houston. RPM’s Remixed was also invited to perform as part of the ISEA 2006 Festival and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. Alvin Lucier, […]