Working with the program, trying to show all the different possibilities we wove together a rough narrative within the dance. It’s a shame we hadn’t done this before I started putting the sound piece together because it would have been a good starting point to know how the mood of the dance was going to [...]
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iTango was performed in front of a large audience at the Tangomagia festival in Amsterdam in December.
Some things went very well… the set up was much more professional than it has been in the past, the cradle I had made for the projector and camera to be mounted on the rig worked beautifully, not a [...]
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Posted in interactive dance floor on November 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just got back from a trip to Austria to meet up and rehearse with Gonzalo and Solange, the dancers involved in the itango project. I’d made some changes to the program for the interactive dance floor, and we were trying to work out what it/I was capable of doing with the light effects so [...]
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At the Tango Del Bosque festival at Bylaugh Hall in Norfolk, Gonzalo, Solange, John and I set up the itango performance for the festival. This is the film of the live performance, just one take edited from the footage of the tracking camera and John’s camera on the ground.
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My last self negotiated project, thinking about rhythms and gender roles in tango.
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Click Critical Evaluation iTango collaboration to download the word document reviewing the project and the experience of collaboration.
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A short film documenting the process of making the film of interactive tango dancing. It talks about some of the technical problems we encountered and shows the interaction of all the people collaborating on the project and how we overcame difficulties together.
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Comments from a tango friend of mine…
There’s so much scope for expressing the movement and quality of the dance in sound in texture in shape in colour; a kind of synaesthesic tango.
All the dynamics of the movements; the sharp clear lines and spirals, soft sweeps and deep beats [...]
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Solange and Gonzalo sent links to the iTango video to their mailing list, these are some of the responses…
(to Fran,)
All of them don´t say more than congratulation. I ask them a deep opinion of waht they would like to see or do with itango, but I didn´t receive an answer yet.
Ciao!
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…”I still have a [...]
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