Concept

This piece was a collaborative project developed by Jane Franklin and myself for a performance at The Woolly Mammoth Theater’s experimental space in Washington DC. For this project, we decided to explore the topic of in-between spaces and we wanted to try to blur the distinction between the performance and the projected image. I was interested in using chance and randomness as part of my process and developed original music compositions and animation for the 22 minute performance. One of the sequences was developed by Rassamee Ruangsri, a talented artist and animator in Denver and she chose to work with ameoba-like forms that appear to communicate and interact with each other. All of the animations were projected over the dancers bodies as they performed, creating another dimension of movement through their shadows.

At one point in the production, the shadows of the dancers become animated separately from the actual dancers, which blurred the distinction between the live performance and the pre-rendered animations. The score developed into 5 distinct movements which stand as films in their own right. Many different forms of looping and oscillating rhythms were used to create the music and animations. Through the overlapping rhythms and synthetic noise textures data streams were used to create motion and distortion of regular geometric forms. In some sections organic forms emerge and oscillate as they move through virtual space.

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Express Night Out
JANE FRANKLIN DANCE makes its way to the Woolly Mammoth Theater on Saturday for “That Indistinct Edge,” a collaboration between the NoVa-based troupe and artist Bryan Leister. The choreography touches on representations of probability in everyday life and the music is mathematically composed.

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