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Enter Festival
enter_ explorations in new technology
art
enter_ festival will take place between 25 - 29 April
2007 and consists of a showcase of events and a conference
programme, focusing on two main thematic strands:
essexdance go to San Jose in August 2006
Arts Council England East (as part of its Escalator International programme)
and the Office of Cultural
Affairs in San José have developed a unique programme of cultural
exchange activity. The first phase of
the collaboration is facilitated by essexdance, the UK dance development
agency with a specialism in
dance technology. A unique partnership with Zero One art and technology
festival in San José has
resulted in a dance technology programme from 7 - 13 August 2006.
Professional Lab
with Troika
Ranch
30 May – 1 June 2006
10.30 – 5.30 each day
Epping Youth & Adult Centre, Epping, Essex
£120.00 and £60.00 concessions
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essexdance and Epping Forest Arts are proud to announce that Artistic Directors Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stoppiello are offering a three-day professional lab for dance and media artists in the UK. The workshop consists of an intensive introduction to Coniglio's software Isadora® - software used to remarkable effect in their work - as well as exercises that highlight the compositional strategies that must be considered when combining live performers with video and other digital materials.
Participants need some knowledge of video editing and their own laptop for the lab. This lab is a partnership project between essexdance and Epping
Forest Arts. |
An informative four day course focusing on Laban skills for over
18's with an interest in leading community groups in the future and to
start a community Leaders Network group. Suitable for Movement Therapy
Workers, University Students and People interested in leading community
groups.
essexdance, Chancellor Hall, Chelmsford
Monday 15 to Thursday 18 August 2005
Led by Anna Carlisle with Guest Leader
£200, £180 Members, £80 conc/ students
Contact essexdance on 01245 346036 or e-mail jo@essexdance.co.uk
for further information.
For general enquiries please contact essexdance on 01245 346036
For more details on Troika Ranch click here
essexdance, Chancellor Hall, Market Road
Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1XA
£150.00/£135.00 members of essexdance/£75.00
concessions
Aimed at dancers and media artists working in the field of performing
arts, this course will look at different prototyping tools, both for physical
and virtual interfaces and their application across various art
forms including dance, movement, visual/digital art, film, photography
and other areas concerned with interactivity and the
creative use of computers.
This is a hands-on, experimental experience suitable for all skill levels.
The three day workshop will be focusing mainly on the software PD (Pure Data). It will touch upon related softwares to introduce the basics of these technologies and how they can be used to enhance artists’ creativity and skills.
Pure Data is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio,
video and graphical processing.
PD is close relative to Max/MSP. It is the third major branch of the patcher
programming languages known as Max and is a free, multi-platform software.
PD can be used as a virtual electronic instrument, in a studio context
or live. It also can process live or recorded material. You can create
sound and video installations.
This workshop is about ideas; not focusing on the technical details of
programming practices, but rather on how we use these environments for
human expression.
For more details or to confirm a place, please contact Felicity at essexdance
on 01245 346036 or email felicity@essexdance.co.uk by 29 March 2005.
Other links of interest:-
http://www.puredata.org/
-- the PD community site
http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_playing_pd/
-- article on electronic musician
http://gem.iem.at/ --GEM
(Graphics Environment for Multimedia - an external (plugin) for PD
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Pd_documentation/
-- PD documentation with an overview of the software and its uses.
igloo exhibitions Coming Up:
Winter2space3 returns to the UK from Vancouver's International Festival of Media Arts'TECHNOGRAPHY' which opened in October at The New Forms Festival in British Columbia. Winter3space4 is being exhibited at Watermans Art Gallery in London over Christmas and New Year supported by essexdance.
The Winterspace Installation will be at Watermans Art Gallery London
December 9 2004 - January 11 2005 12noon - 9pm
Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford TW8 ODS.
Admin: 020 8232 1020
Box Office: 020 8232 1010
Winter3space4 is a large scale audio-visual environment. A beautiful 3-D snowscape subtly responds to your presence. Contemplative and magical Winter3space4 promises to be an enchanting experience in a virtual interstellar frozen wonderland.
*Warstars
The Warstars Installation will be at the Lighthouse Centre For the Arts
Poole.
Warstars will be touring the UK as part of the Capture Installations Tour
04/05.
December 18th 2004 - Jan 15th 2005 10am 8pm
Lighthouse, Kingland Road,Poole, BH15 1UG
Information: 01202 685222
http://www.lighthousepoole.co.uk
Warstars is a series of interrelated films concerned with the relationship between figure and landscape. The installation exposes the rhythms of nature which lends a mythic quality to the progression through lava, water, sulphur, rock and ice. Shot entirely on location in Iceland, Warstars features a double stereo score by one of Icelands leading electronic muscians, Bjossi Thorgrimsson aka Biogen.
dotdotdot
dotdotdot will be shown as a part of Data Agency going live on 20th December.
http://www.scansite.org
Data Agency is produced in association with Furtherfield www.furtherfield.org
and will be shown at their http gallery
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Road, London N4
Open Jan 15th 16th, 21st 23rd, 28th 30th 12pm - 5pm
Opening Jan 15th, 7pm - 9pm
dotdotdot is the net¹s first interactive radio streaming, motion capture project and is an on-line choreographic work where the viewers select the soundtrack whilst driving the performance animations. Supported by SCAN, Future Physical & essexdance.
Igloo will be presenting both dotdotdot & Warstars at The Monaco Dance
Forum, Monaco December 14t h- 19th.
info:
http://www.igloo.org.uk
eskimos@igloo.org.uk
Isabel Rocamora
Architecture - Moving image - Performance
A ‘research in process’ presentation
14 January 2005
3.30- 4.30 pm @ essexdance, Chancellor Hall, Market Road, Chelmsford CM1
1XA
Degree Zero is interested in locus, the psyche of place, and the way it
relates to human gesture. The research looks at identity: time, erosion,
history and explores the dynamics of presence and disappearance.
Rocamora collaborates with performer Matilda Leyser and site-specific artist Fabrizio Crisafulli.
The presentation will offer a series of reflections and experiments following a period in residence at essexdance and Signals Media and dialogues ‘on the road’ in Italy.
Isabel Rocamora is an ‘anti-gravity’ director and choreographer working in site-specific performance, new media and moving image.
Isabel is an Associate Artist at essexdance and an Affiliated Artist at Signals Media.
For more information about Isabel : www.infinito.org.uk
essexdance runs a range of events for professionals exploring dance and technology. To find out more about past and future projects visit the dance.tech website accessible through the Dance & Technology link above.
A series of labs and workshops for dancers and choreographers
Streaming Lab - THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT!
Sat 20 - Sun 21 November 04 - 10.30am - 5.30pm each day
Learn the processes involved in streaming archived and live media content as you focus on the basic skills needed to stream over the web. Led by Paul Sargeant.
Full £60 / Memb £54 / Conc £45
For more information or a booking form please phone Felicity on 01245 346036 or email felicity@essexdance.co.uk
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Digi-Lounge is a series of residential dance and technology labs for dance professionals already exploring or wishing to explore work with dance and technology.
Photos of Digi-Lounge 2A at Dance City, Newcastle courtesy of www.igloo.org.uk
essexdance (in collaboration with WRA/NL; Igloo; Arts Council England and Dance City) hosted two residential professional development labs during July 2004. The first, Digi-Lounge 2A, was organised in partnership with Dance City and ran in Newcastle from 12th to 16th July, the second, Digi-Lounge 2B, was at essexdance’s base in Chelmsford from 20 July to 24 July.
These two labs gave the opportunity for professional dance artists with
some experience of creating dance work with technologies to further their
practice. Both labs offered the chance to:
Gain experience in motion capture and software programmes
Receive advice and support on developing project concepts and idea.
Network with new colleagues
Gain constructive feedback
Digi-Lounge 2A & 2B were both led by leading practitioners in this
field. The moderator was Scott deLahunta. Bruno Martelli and Ruth Gibson
(Igloo), Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stoppiello (Troika Ranch) and Guy Hilton
worked as facilitators with the lab participants.
Photos of Digi-Lounge 2B at essexdance, Chelmsford courtesy of www.igloo.org.uk
