Tilt World: Smoke and Mirrors
Tilt World rehearsals (Jan 2020 – May 2020) are geared toward building a set improvisational score or group of scores to be used once more dancers are brought into the fold.
Tilt World: Solo Rehearsal
Concept: To set up and record a improvisations, tests, and pictures of my 1st solo set up in ACCAD’s Motion Lab for future rehearsals of Tilt World in this space. Methodology: First, I created a detailed improvisation study incorporating repetition and color change in order to show an archive of…
Quick Making and Performing with Emily Craver
In the past two semesters I’ve had the chance to both witness and work with Emily Craver, a fellow 2nd year MFA. We were experimenting with chat bot conversations, gif loops, and using code as a way of choreographing. The first semester turned into a dance representation of computing concepts.…
One-Minute: Once Upon The Oval
To devise a one-minute solo to be dropped into the collectively devised theater project titled “Once Upon The Oval” to be premiered in March 2020 at Drake Performing Arts Center.
Loïe Fuller: The Body Prosthetic
In this paper, I explore the role of technology during the interwar period through Loïe Fuller’s use of what Julie Townsend calls “theatrical prosthesis,” wooden extensions to lengthen the arms, fabric, and electric light (Townsend 1991, 73). Addressing the spectatorial aesthetic result of the normalization of prosthetic limbs during the…
Creating an Immersive Virtual Environment
ConceptCo-creator Laura Rodriguez and I aimed to create a room for a virtual Spielberg Museum to resemble Carol Anne’s room in Poltergeist the movie. Design of the room included interactive elements such as lights that change with proximity, a TV that turns on and plays a clip from the movie…
The Ghosts of Mirror Lake: Expanded with Media and Monologues
To work with the Media Design students with the tools presented to expand our The Ghosts of Mirror Lake scene using various forms of projection, live-feed, or other technology available with the goal of enhancing the experience thematically, dramatically, and theatrically.
Digging Augmented Reality
My co-creator and I, Laura Rodriguez/LROD, aimed to create an Augmented Reality application used as an educational supplement to Laura Dixon Gottschild’s Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts.
“Decolonizing My Colonized Body”
Nora Chipamure, an inspirational speaker and move maker, said in a master class last week that she was working on “decolonizing her colonized body.” This was the first time I heard this voiced so succinctly. In the University we often talk about the complications of the history of modern dance…
“…It is not your business…”
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not…