In spring 2024, I was excited to begin a collaboration with renowned cinematographer Joe Foley and renowned director and School of Media Arts and Design professor at JMU, Imelda O’Reily. As choreographer for “Under the Wolf’s Cloak 360°,” the vision was a film for the planetarium, filmed with an Insta360…
For the past three months, these beautiful dancer/actors and I have been working on building material around the ideas of “Super Human.” It didn’t take us long to identify the key element…humanity. “What is a super power?” and “Who is super human?” were our jumping off points to access and…
Abstract: The purpose of this work emerged from a desire to understand and create a relationship between choreography and the Virtual Reality (VR) painting program, Tilt Brush. When performing with a VR headset and controllers, the body and machine blend into cyborg, a body prosthetic. However, through the eyes of…
Tara Lee Burns’ MFA Thesis in Dance, “ITERATION X” is a series of four works that not only identify as documentation, archive, and performance, but are interchangeable artworks of alternative and simultaneous realities as resistance and hope. The four works bridge aesthetics ranging from the bright colors of the VR…
Where are the boundaries of your flesh and who determines them? How do we effect our surroundings? What is revealed from our actions? In “Reveal,” Angela Pujolas stretches, separates, and ducks the hot pink extensions of her frame imagining and opening alternative and simultaneous worlds of vivid color. REVEAL creates…
Objective: Having explored the virtual paint and embodiment in Google’s Tilt Brush, I wanted to further that exploration with the physics of the natural world in a dance film. Whether representing paint or blood, the kinetic movement that creates physical traces represent the theories in the flesh and the validity…