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Blocks of Continuality/ Body, Image, and Algorithm
Pre-Show Coffee and Conversation: Mar 3 at 6:30pm
Post-Show Talk: Mar 5
”…most radical art.” - Berlin Zeitung
Researching movement, digital media creation, and visible/invisible aspects of body based on her study of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy, Blocks of Continuality/Body, Image and Algorithm incorporates: original 3D content (avatars, objects, and environments); computer programming to interactively control the 3D content; and Live Processing, a performance technique for creating new movement in real time. In Live Processing, the dancers process movement from multiple video sources. Through this technique, they become pure potential and create new movement for each audience.
When a dancer encounters the 3D bodies and images of bodies in the video sources, they can together form a more powerful whole; sometimes, one decomposes the other, destroying the cohesion of its parts. The work constantly reconstitutes body with images of body, while the realm of body is questioned.
- Blocks of Continuality/Body, Image and Algorithm is commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop’s Commissioning and Creative Residency Program with support from The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. The work was created, in part, while in residency at Florida State University’s Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) in partnership with Dance Theater Workshop and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The work is funded, in part, by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.