Produced by
The Forsythe Company
The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design and
The Department of Dance at The Ohio State University

Creative Directors
William Forsythe, Maria Palazzi, Norah Zuniga-Shaw

In collaboration with world renowned choreographer William Forsythe, ACCAD and the Department of Dance developed an online interactive score project for the choreographic work of Forsythe's, One Flat Thing, reproduced. The team of Ohio State research faculty, graphics researchers, and graduate students constructed a new way of looking at dance, one that considers both discipline-specific and cross-disciplinary ways of seeing. The final product, an interactive website was launched on April 1, 2009. The site illuminates underlying structure and mechanics of a complex choreography, exposes modes of perception and attention of both performers and audience, and enables new and multiple readings of this work and consequently the viewing of dance in general.

Project Team

Generative Designer: Matthew Lewis, ACCAD

Ohio State Graduate Research Associates
Beth Albright (Department of Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication Design), Michael Andereck (Department of Computer Science and Engineering), Sucheta Bhatawadekar (Design), Hyowon Ban (Department of Geography), Andrew Calhoun (Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture), Jande Drozd (Design), Joshua Fry (Design), Melissa Quintanhilla (Design), Anna Reed (Department of Dance), Benjamin Schroeder (Computer Science), Lily Skove (Dance), Ashley Thorndike (Dance) and Mary Twohig (Design)

Ohio State Faculty Researchers
Ola Ahlqvist, Department of Geography
Peter Chan, Department of Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication Design
Noel Cressie, Department of Statistics
Stephen Turk, Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture

Forsythe Company Dance Research Collaborators
Jill Johnson, choreographer/teacher/performer/Forsythe stager
Christopher Roman, dancer/choreographer/ballet master
Elizabeth Waterhouse, dancer/researcher

International Collaborators
Scott deLahunta, Research Fellow at Amsterdam School of the Arts
Patrick Haggard, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
Alva Noe, Department of Philosophy, University of California Berkeley

Funding Provided by:
The Forsythe Company
The Forsythe Foundation
The Ohio State University Office of Research
Rotterdamse Dansacademie/Codarts
Tanzplan Deutschland, an initiative of the Federal Arts Council