March 13, 2006

Dancing Up a Storm with Gene Kelley

I enjoyed watching a mechanical umbrella performance done to "Singing in the Rain" designed by installation artist Peter William Holden (via Boing Boing).

Busby Berkeley choreographed dancers to mimic the motions of machines and modern inventions. “AutoGene� is the flipside of this. It’s a simple aesthetic looking robot composed of eight modified umbrellas mounted in a circular pattern. A cocktail of air hoses and electrical cables join these umbrellas to a central computer which enables “AutoGene� to produce a choreographed dance which erodes the machine's mechanical qualities.

And if you want more Singing in the Rain, watch this hip-hop dance take on this famous song in a Volkswagon TV commercial.

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