Dance News and Links
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra has excellent program Beyond the Score Video - I encourage readers to watch video. This provides dancers with good model of how to provide behind-the-scenes look at the making of dances. Not that there aren't already examples from dance world - NYC Ballet's Romeo and Juliet.
- Natalia from Bellydance: Experiences says that on Bhuz there is project where song is chosen and belly dancers are encouraged to upload their own choreography on YouTube - sounds like great project but I can't find videos on Bhuz???
- Benoit Beauchamp in Recycled Space praises social networking site Facebook, which has been on a roll, especially since it opened its API. This means that a huge number of developers are building customized applications for Facebook. Here's write-up on Mashable about a large number of new apps for Facebook. The importance of these developments is that you might want to consider creating profile on Facebook for your dancing or dance company.
- Stefan Kolgen of Da...ce, in its latest iPod Filling Station X post, links to Dario's Tango Guide, which is an excellent Argentine Tango video podcast.
- DC-based dancer/choreographer Daniel Burkholder is re-working his "My Ocean is Never Blue." His performance piece blog is the first one I've come across that delves into the choreographic process with text and videos.
- Studio28, a new Italian-language blog, writes about "Open Source Dance Framework." To quote from OSDF website, "Open Source Dance Framework is a proposed framework for creating, reusing, licensing, and distributing a dance creation. It is inspired in part by the Creative Commons licensing system and the Open Source software movement." This sounds intriguing and I'm going to go back and spend some time reading about this.
- Writers are turning to Web 2.0 tools to create collaborative narratives. In this post from Read/WriteWeb, you'll find a number of group-writing applications. Are there parallel possibilities for distributed choreography?
- New dance blogger Nejla Y. Yatkin writes about the "State of Dance." A good, interesting read.
- FeedBlitz soups-up email distribution and subscriber options for blog publishers. I'm going to experiment with this new offering. I want to offer more and better options to readers who want blog updates by email. [via Mashable].
- Everyzing, formerly PodZinger, uses its speech-to-text technology to allow users to search for audio content within audio and video files. Do an audio search for "Merce Cunningham," and you will get a listing of matches. When you click on a specific match, you can then jump directly to the section in the audio program where the name "Merce Cunningham" is spoken. [via The Next Net and NewTeeVee].
- Jamglue is a web-based audio mixer. I used it for a few minutes. It looks like an easy and convenient way to mix two or more audio tracks and loops.
- I've been trying to find a way to record high-quality IP-phone conversations while using Skype. A new service from Evoca may provide the answer.
- Well if audiences can't figure out the emotional states you are trying to convey in your dance piece, you could try a Hug Shirt to clarify meaning. "When touching the red areas on your Hug Shirt your mobile phone receives the sensors data via Bluetooth (hug pressure, skin temperature, heartbeat rate, time you are hugging for, etc) and then delivers it to the other person which wears a Hug Shirt as well." Imagine everybody in the audience wearing these emotionally-responsive shirts that would ensure that that they would truly feel as you feel. Learn more about Hug Shirts. [via Textually.org].
- And in an unrelated project to the above story, here's an academic paper (PDF) from 2005, "The Telematic Dress." Written by Johannes Birringer and Michele Danjoux, this paper, quoting from Network Performance write-up, "...explores new ideas for movement technologies and garment design in an arts and digital research context. The 'telematic dress' project, developed at the DAP Lab in Nottingham, involves transdisciplinary intersections between fashion and live performance, interactive system architecture, electronic textiles, wearable technologies, choreography, and anthropology."
- Bilboard and mobile phone make LG are teaming-up for summer concert competition. About 30 contestants will be given press passes to top concerts. Each winner will receive an LG picture-enabled mobile phone, which they will use to do on-site reporting with text and photos. I always like these programs that invite amateurs to be reporters of entertainment and arts events. [via Picturephoning.com].
Posted by Doug Fox on June 13, 2007 6:34 AM
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" Natalia from Bellydance: Experiences says that on Bhuz there is project where song is chosen and belly dancers are encouraged to upload their own choreography on YouTube - sounds like great project but I can't find videos on Bhuz???"
Even though it's not obvious from the front page. Bhuz is primarily a discussion forum, and the project has been organized quite casually on a couple of threads in the forum. The videos will not be compiled or put on the front page or anything.
We're doing it just as a learning tool among a handful of members, to she how different people interpret the same music. It is not an "official" project in any way.
Also, I would like to clarify that the project includes video of both choreographed and improvised interpretations of the song.