Dressing Room Warmup
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| Posted by Sophie
gina and stephanie warm up for a performance of the Nutcracker
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Preparations | WING017
| | Posted by Sloan
Gwyneth and I shot this before her debut as the Hostess in NYCB’s production of The Nutcracker.
Also appearing are Maya Collins, Troy Schumacher, and Henry Seth.
Music: “Further” by Etherdust.
Video: Starring Gwyneth, filmed and edited by Sloan.
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Love Apples | WING015
Dancing is hard work…and hard work is a dance. Making cider is hard work too and uses lots of technology. While many are thinking about their Halloween costumes I am focused on one thing.
Apples.
Every year my family and friends get together to make cider under the direction of my father, Stephen Schultz. We use a blend of Golden Russet, Red Spy and Northern Spy apples to make the juice and a special line of cider yeast to process the fermentation. In time we filter it, chill it and put in bubbles. We make enough to share with friends and raise spirits throughout the year.
Next weekend is time again to make cider. Above is a timelapse from last years apple crushing extravaganza. Check out the apples, the cool hydraulic press and all those bodies moving. I work for my apple juice with an ensemble cast. Its a labor of love and it feels like dancing.
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Time Machine 0 | WING013
| | Posted by Tony
I have of late become obsessed with time machines. They are everywhere and my apprehension of them is expanding. In our contemporary landscape, where space is almost fully dominated, time is the frontier and battleground. Telling radical history and making radical culture shapes the future. Time machines are war machines and in the hands of both propagandists and bandits. We make them today with cameras and computers.
Cinema is a time machine. Cool thought, but others came up with it first. Bergson and Deleuze helped develop this line of thinking. One idea: images pass messages between the past and future through the present interface of memory and perception. The creation of art and culture is a mode of tele-portation and time-travel. These portals are accessed through viewership and cognition. Another idea: cinema’s control of moving images frees storytelling from the dictated velocity and chronology of time. Our modern media technologies are time machines in their capacity to stretch, cut and manipulate the time-code. This is transformative to our consciousness, interaction…and our dancing.
Time machines have become the theme of the first few weeks of my Dance and Technology class at Sarah Lawrence College. One of our first projects uses differential time rates to escape the perceptual confines of a Newtonian clockwork universe. The goal is to give dancers cinematic control over time contractions and dilations, while they are dancing. Computer vision algorithms are used to combine dancing and cinematography into a single practice. The record rate continually responds to the dancer’s input, providing equal amounts of visual flux between successive frames. If there is much action in the visual field the camera speeds up to catch it. If the dancing slows to an adagio the camera slows down too.
Have a look at what kind of visual artifact it creates and think what kind of time machine you would like to dance with.
Algorithm and Dance: Tony Schultz
Music: “Turkish” by Disco Nap
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WING012 - Auditions, Round 2
| | Posted by Sloan
Tonight’s the night!
LVHRD’s Battle of the Moves II event is at 8PM tonight.
This video is from last week when I helped judge the second and final round of auditions for tonights dance-off at Sweet, Seth Herzog’s weekly comedy show at The Slipper Room in NYC.
With me on the judging panel were celebrity comedians Josh Charles (Sportsnight), Sam Rockwell (Charlie’s Angels) and John Viner (Family Guy). Not bad company if I do say so myself.
Tonight I’ll be judging the final event along side Gia Kourlas and Tracy Inman of Alvin Ailey.
Can’t wait!
Look for more beautifully edited footage of the actual event at lvhrd.org.
Footage by Doug.
Music by Preach Martin.
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Corsets and podcasts
| | Posted by Sloan
Because ballet dancers and 18th century french royalty both share the daily experience of moving about in a corset….
I thought it was appropriate to let you guys know about this fantastic video podcast by Vogue and Style.com.
It shows behind-the-scenes footage (you know how much we like that here), of Annie Leibowitz’s photoshoot of Kirsten Dunst in the most incredible couture gowns for Vogue. And the shot was done at Versailles… wigs, corsets and all.
Gotta love that New Order song too!!
Enjoy!
