Posts Tagged ‘internet’
The LXD: A Vision of the Future of Dance
Lately, with the success of So You Think You Can Dance we’ve seen a resurgence of dance in main stream media. Now there is also emerging a progressive vision for dance in the internet age. Film director John M. Chu cut his teeth on the blockbuster hit: “Step Up 2: The Streets.” Today he is working on an interactive web series featuring “The League of eXtraordinary Dancers” (LXD), a band of hip hop dancers with “supernatural” abilities that battle it out over broadband. Everything about this project is Web 2.0. First Chu posted video announcements on YouTube asking dancers to respond with their audition videos. From the hundreds of video responses he received, he selected his cast, to make an interactive web series. So far they have been doing an impressive PR circuit. The LXD dancers have made appearances on SYTYCD, the Oscars, and TED. If this blows up, it could mean dance gains a strong foothold in the future of media. Below is their recent TEDtalk. I love what Chu says about how dance is flourishing and evolving through exchange on the internet. My hope is that the concert dance community takes some tips from these hip hop dancers and take to the digital streets!
Enjoy!
Raise Money for Dance and Film Projects Online
Thursday, November 5th, 1:00-2:00pm (EST) Webinar fee: $18
Register here: http://pentacle.org/movement_media_artists_services.asp#workshops
Online fundraising doesn’t have to be hard. Whether you’re raising money from hundreds of supporters or just friends and family, learning how to design and promote your dance or film project online lets you fundraise quickly and effectively.
Dancer and choreographer, Benjamin Ford Asriel (http://www.basriel.com) presents a Webinar designed to help dancers learn how to creatively utilize the Internet to raise money for their dance and dance film projects.
Benjamin’s ‘Project Paper Trail’ is a choreography project and fundraising blog that has currently raised over $9,000 through online donations. The one hour Webinar will take place in real time, so that you will have ample time to ask questions and get feedback from Benjamin.
click here to register!
Benjamin will discuss his success with his fundraising project, ‘Project Paper Trail’ . Hear about the different types of donors his project attracted, and how his funding project became so successful.
Learn how artists can build wider, more engaged audiences and new models to generate support. Open discussion will be part of the Webinar, so you will have time to ask questions or discuss ideas about online fundraising campaigns for your artistic work!
We look forward to seeing you at the Webinar on November 5th.
Benjamin Ford Asriel posts 'Project Paper Trail' online for viewers
UMOVE Submission Deadline Extended!!
UMOVE Online Videodance Festival deadline has been extended to September 9, 2009!!
In order to celebrate the creativity and diversity of kinetic cinema in all its forms, from dance/film to gaming, from animation to mash-ups, we have extended the deadline for submissions for the following categories:
- Animation/Gaming – including digital animation, machinima, Second life, Virtual Reality games, motion capture.
- Cell phone – videos made using a cell phone, webcam, or Flip cam.
- Gone in 60 seconds – videos under one minute long
Please refer to our web site for details and rules for submission.
The First Annual UMove Online Videodance Festival will run from October 1-31, 2009 on the web with a live screening and launch party in New York on October 4th. Additionally we plan to tour a curated selection of videos to national and international venues in 2009-10.
Please send us your media! We look forward to seeing your work!
The Future of Video on the Net and What You Need to Know
Open Video is a broad based movement of video creators, technologists, academics, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, activists, remixers, and many others. When most folks think of “open,” they think of open source and open codecs. They’re right—but there’s more to Open Video than open codecs. Open Video is the growing movement for transparency, interoperability, and further decentralization in online video. Open Video is about the legal and social norms surrounding online video. It’s the ability to attach the license of your choice to videos you publish. It’s about media consolidation, aggregation, and decentralization. It’s about fair use. In short, it’s about a lot of things, and that’s why the first ever Open Video Conference Held on June 19th and 20th here in NYC was a fascinating event for anyone in the business of producing or consuming video.
Final Kinetic Cinema of the Season!!!
Still from danceanywhere
REALITY DANCEVISION: An Intimate Screen Capture of Dance Vloggers
Join us for the last Kinetic Cinema of the season featuring Boris Willis, a dancer, choreographer, video-maker and blogger based in Washington DC. Willis will explore the phemonena of dance vlogs (video blogs about dance) and present works by of some of the most notable and prolific dance vloggers today. In 2007-08 Willis published the vlog “Dance-a-day” in which he made and posted a dance video every day for 365 days. From his first video shot in a parking lot demonstrating effeminate gestures, to an entire month of posts about important sites of Black history in Washington DC, as well as 43 collaborations with composer David Morneau (who also posted a composition a day on his blog 60×365.com) , Willis covered the entire range of styles, experiments, and types of improvisation one can do with dance and a video camera.
Featuring the work of: Ashley A. Friend, danceanywhere, Gesel Mason, Liz Roncka, lee atwell, and Boris Willis, among others.
Kinetic Cinema
Wednesday, June 10th at 7pm
Tickets: $10 (purchase at the door)
304 Boerum St., Buzzer #11
Brooklyn, NY 11206
718.418.4405
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Boris Willis
Boris Willis by Paul Emerson
Boris Willis is an Assistant Professor of Computer Game Design at George Mason University and the Chief Artistic Officer of Boris Willis Moves, a movement and media based performance company. He has performed with Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange, Streb, Jacob’s Pillow’s Men Dancers and the Theatre of the First Amendment. He recently completed work on Dance-A-Day, (www.danceaday.com) a year long daily video dance project. He has an MFA in Dance and Technology from The Ohio State University, a BFA in Dance from George Mason University and a Diploma in Contemporary Dance from the NC School of the Arts.
About Kinetic Cinema
Kinetic Cinema is a co-presentation of Chez Bushwick and Pentacle’s Movement Media project, and happens on the second Wednesday of each month as part of a weekly dance, visual & media arts series at Chez Bushwick. For each screening Anna Brady Nuse, Pentacle’s director of Movement Media, invites a different guest artist from the fields of dance and media arts to share a selection of films and videos that have inspired them. These could be works for screen that feature dance, are kinetic-based, or have been influential on their work in some way. The guest curators come from a range of backgrounds as performers, choreographers, critics, video artists, and film-makers.
For more info on Pentacle’s Movement Media project and news about the next Kinetic Cinema season, please visit our website: http://pentacle.org/movement_media.asp
