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Watch the trailer and the "making of paramenoume" The film itself is roaming the festival circuit:)
A 2025 collaboration with the fantastic and inspiring Lexi Clark-Stilianos and her Stilgo company.
In Lexi's words: paramenoume (we remain) is a mixed reality dance film that offers a queer counter-narrative to the mythology of the sirens. The work reclaims and retells from the misunderstood (and oft-mistranslated) creatures point of view, suggesting the sirens honeyed words, sharp talons, and sharper tongues are not in service of gratuitous violence but in defense of a queer matriarchal utopia.
Besides motion capture, my contribution to the project was the development of characters and virtual sets for Lexi to take on as a virtual filmmaker, in addition to her director/choreographer/editor role with real dancers and places.
Tech notes: virtual production, mocap, Unreal engine, Maya, Motionbuilder.
A visual summary of the motion capture based passages developed for the 2005 dance performance project with the Bebe Miller Company. Exploring the theme of arriving and finding connection or perspective in an unfamiliar place, this three-year long exploration of motion capture technology at ACCAD's new mocap studio seeked to understand what mocap has to offer to the contemporary dance practice, what opportunities are there for revealing the invisible, what is granted by abstracting movement, stripping away elements of weight and identity.
In Bebe's words: Landing/Place concerns the impact of the unfamiliar alongside the everyday (picture any collision of images that tells you you’re not at home). One’s presence in a known landscape is a kind of self-portrait, and the lively exchange of competing ideas of “place” is at the heart of our social interaction. With dance for the camera, interactive digital media and live performance, Landing/Place explores sensory, spatial and cultural dislocation (is there an emotional experience that can be quantified? Is there a technology in how I see what I see?); the yearning towards order in the apprehension of difference.
This project allowed me to begin approaching mocap data as a found object of sorts rather than a driver of virtual characters, that can be manifested in multiple types of virtual embodiment and creative visualizations.
Watch a short and extended standalone versions. Other variations have been exhibited in Dance Theater Workshop gallery (NYC), OSU Thompson Library ( Columbus OH), and Urban Arts Space (Columbus, OH) between 2005-2010.
Tech Notes: mocap, Maya, Filmbox (Ha!) turning into Motionbuilder, strange birds like Vicon IQ and Diva.
A personal piece, made in 2012, based on the mocap data of improvised performance by Shawn Hove with my very subtle direction. This work meditates upon the pull between remembering and foreseeing, preceding the moment when one is ready to transcend from the old and move into the new.
Tech Notes: mocap, Maya, Motionbuilder.
A very special 2002-2003 collaboration with Kareen Balsam whose auto-biographically inspired choreography an imagined virtual reunion of a family whose history crossed path with an incredible man, Dr Janusz Korchak. Originally an installation and mediated performance (2003), watch this dance film version.
Tech notes: my first mocap work, with hours of painful data cleaning by Kareen and I, characters and virtual environments by me, live film and editing by Kareen.