Telematic Project 1 2007-08 brought students from LJMU and Temple Univesity together to create a seven minute collaborative student work, guided by both tutors. A networked dance studio in America was linked with a studio theatre in the UK using Adobe Connect. It was an introduction to telematic work for all, and opened the way to Projects 2-5.
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The second telematic project between LJMU and Temple University (2008-09) investigated how web-cam and e-mail technology can serve dance pedagogy and creative process, specifically if and how it might engage students in the making of dances within a new spatial 'frontier'. It involved undergraduate and postgraduate students of dance in three student collaborative projects, each of approximately four minutes in length. Linking only via web-cam technology, email, skype and Facebook, each group created a new dance for performance between two networked linked theatres, one in Philadelphia USA, the other in Liverpool UK.
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Woven Space Across the Pond (April 2009), was a collaboration between three choreographers, Luke Kahlich, Nathaniel Hancock and Pauline Brooks, who worked collaboratively but each had designated responsibility for one of the three sections that the dance can be divided into. It had as one of its themes the notion of the geographic distance that separates Philadelphia from Liverpool, an expanse that is much affected by the natural elements of the wind and the sea. The work is 14 minutes in length, the short clip here gives a sense of a some of the work in the project.
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The dance takes as its theme ideas of holidays and the travelling that is often involved -- as well as the exploration of the interaction of the live dancers with the streamed video dancers projected onto the cyclorama. The projection is divided by a centre split screen that allows the for a virtual performance space. Performed from LJMU in April 2011. The work, some 12 minutes in length, was viewed by one live audience in an art gallery, another in Sudley Studio Theatre, while a small audience viewed only the internet screen view. A clip from the screen view is shown here.
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Bing, Bang, Bong! was first performed on 9 December 2011 with live audiences in Liverpool, Philadelphia and online with audiences in UK, Greece and USA. The works stimulus came from pinball machines, as well as exploring the interaction of the live dancers with the streamed video dancers projected onto the cyclorama. To add to the challenge for the dancers, in addition to being separated by 3000 miles, they also had to juggle six balls between them and try to pass them across the Atlantic to each other.
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This work was a collaboration between Novapool - Liverpool John Moores University and Nova Southeastern University Florida. The dance takes its stimulus from the sea and the beaches that each city is connected through (though in very different settings) as well as exploring the interaction of the live dancers with the streamed video dancers projected onto the cyclorama. Additionally, an important theme in the work is derived from the Antony Gormley sculpture Another Place - 100 Iron Men statues on Crosby Beach (Liverpool) that stand and look our westwards to the sea and beyond (as seen to the left).
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Extended Bodies has been collaboratively created with a focus on body parts and using the equipment to focus on different aspects of the body. Zoomed-in close-ups allow the audience to focus in on parts of the dancers’ self that may usually be overlooked, and it also gives an almost distorted view of the moving body. Exploring how to create a connection between the performers in both countries is also a key element of this piece. Through focus and movement the dancers on different sides of the world move as one company.
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A collaboration between John Moores University (LJMU) in Liverpool, Napier University in Edinburgh and Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
This project explored how connections can be made between musicians and dancers in distanced spaces brought together by Visimeet technology. Making Connections marks the first collaboration with Edinburgh Napier University. The musical composition is informed by the paintings of Piet Mondrian, and inspired the costumes and the stage design. The work was performed synchronously on 21 November 2014 In Edinburgh, Liverpool and Fort Lauderdale, as well as via the Internet with Visimeet in Chicago, Texas and Corfu. Subsequently, it was invited to be a part of the Fifth European Network Performing Arts Production (NPAP) Workshop Royal Academy of Music, London/UK |