Watching Dace Performances from the Dancer's Point of View
I've always been intrigued by the possibilities of mobile and wireless vision technologies to transform how the audience experiences a dance performance. How, for instance, can viewers change their perspective so that at one moment they are viewing a dance piece from their own point of view and at another moment, they are seeing through the eyes of one of the dancers?
The Anaheim Ballet (their YouTube video channel) has experimented a bit with the possibilities of experiencing dance from different perspectives. Watch the following video, "Ballet: Spin Cycle." At the one minute and three second mark, you'll see that the video, for a few seconds, is shot from a videocam mounted on the dancer's head:
In a performance setting, it's possible to connect wireless videocams to different parts of one or more dancers' bodies. Then, the live video feed could be projected in real-time on to screens on the stage so that the audience can enjoy different viewing angles. My guess is that this has been done before, but I have not seen it.
First-Person Goggles for Real-Time Remote Viewing
And as a result of new remote video-watching technology created for games and remote-controlled cars and planes, there are additional ways that viewers can enjoy multiple vantage points in real-time.
The Pilot View FPV 2400 lets users, while wearing goggles, experience their remote-controlled plane as if they were in the cockpit.
And the Fat Shark wireless video glasses give you the same type of first-person view of your remote-controlled vehicles. Plus, you can pivot and tilt the small video camera to change the viewing angle at any time:
I'd like to learn about dancers and dance companies that have experimented with different approaches to offering audiences multiple ways of seeing a performance as in the above examples.
