Indistinct Boundaries is a collaborative project developed by Jane Franklin Dance 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 were interested in blurring the dancers 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. The second movement was animated by Rassamee Ruangsri who created 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. The score developed into 5 distinct movements, movements #2 and #4 were screened at the Atlanta Film Festival in 2010.

Animation & music: Bryan Leister, additional animation: Rassamee Ruangsri, choreography : Jane Franklin, completed: 2009