June 28, 2006

What Moves You?

Move-Me is a traveling booth touring the UK that records informal videos of participants moving to the audio instructions of choreographers.

Once a participant has had one of their dance masterpieces recorded in the Move-Me both, the video is put in an online gallery with all of the other clips. On the Move-Me website you can watch these clips, rate them and add them to your favorites.

The creators of Move-Me have also invited a group of users to create their own curated sets of their favorite videos, which you can access. Select "Curated Dances" from top left-side menu bar.

Move-me.com is co-produced by Ricochet Dance Productions and Goat Media Ltd, from an original idea by Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson.

Simon Fildes is also the organizer of the Video Dance Forum, which took place two weeks ago. I would have written about Move-Me earlier but I was confused by how it worked until Simon emailed me a description yesterday. I was under the wrong impression that the dancers in the booth were watching a video clip of different choreographers who were offering instructions on a series of moves. And I was wondering why the Move-Me website didn't include these videos so that online visitors could actually see what the dancers inside the booth were watching. But that's not how the system works. The dancers inside the booth listen to a pre-recorded audio messages from the choreographers walking participants through a series of moves - there's no video to watch. With some of the videos on Move-Me, you can clearly hear the choreographers in the background.

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