ITP Winter Show Project Fall08
Video sculpture, multi-source projection
Video shoot, post poduction: Ramona Pringe, Xue Hou
Dancer: Lea (NYU dance department)
Inspired by “Ballerina di 14 anni” by Edgar Degas, our ballerina has come to life on multiple layers of gauze/tulle.
The fabric is inspired by the softness of the ballerina’s skirt, and with multiple sheer sheets, capturing the various “generations” of multiple projected sources, the result is a ghost like layering of dancers.
We wanted to create a classical piece using contemporary tools, and build a piece that people interacted with spatially, seeing different perspectives on the piece, overlapping dancers, and echoes of their motions, depending on your viewing angle.
It was also important to us that this piece not appear “digital” but rather embody the grace of classical ballet and the softness of the dancers movements.
The challenge was - how to we capture a dancer’s grace, and flowing agility, and how do we make it move in three dimensional space? One solution was using a projection material that has it’s own organic movement, and seems to sway as the dances moves, and as people pass around the piece.
early prototype
