Landing/Place
Landing/Place is a dance multimedia performance
choreographed by Bebe Miller, combining dance with motion
capture, live and pre-recorded video, and computer animation.
Landing/Place, a full evening of work that will be completed
in 2005, concerns the impact of the unfamiliar against the
everyday.
Capture Date: Nov. 4 through Nov. 11, 2003 - project ongoing
http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/~vberezin/bm
Jane,
The Burpee Dinosaur
The Jane project led to a lot of thoughts about dinosaur
motion. Would it be possible to motion capture a person
and apply that motion to a dinosaur? Knowing that this approach
would not work well, it was decided that a rig could be
made to approximate the proportions and bone lengths of
the legs of a dinosaur. Ryan English contrstructed an exoskeletal
rig that could be moved by an actor. Capturing the motion
from the rig instead of the actor allows us to animate a
dinosaur.
Capture date: July, September, and October of 2003
- project ongoing
http://workspace.accad.ohio-state.edu/Projects/Jane/webpages/index.html
Native
American Dance
New
Motion Capture technology provides rich possibilities to
explore, fully digitally archive and critically examine
the relatively undocumented and therefore invisible traditions
and adaptations of Native American dance. In response, investigators
propose to foster a residency think tank experience including
dancers, students and audiences to explore and address these
issues and produce a best practices model for the use of
Motion Capture as an archival and analysis resource for
ethnic dance preservation and cultural inquiry.
Capture Date: Oct. 14 and Oct. 16, 2003 - project ongoing
Chinese
Dance
On October 28, 2003, Mark
Bender of Ohio State University Department of East Asian
Languages and Literatures had Professor Huang Jianming (Central
Nationalities University, Beijing) here for a visit. We
were fortunate enough to have Prof. Huang drop by for some
motion capture. Prof. Huang performed four culturally significant
dances from the Sani people. The Sani people are located
in Shilin County, near the Stone Forest tourist site in
Yunnan Province, SW China. The dances were the young male
dance, young female dance, elder man dance, and elder woman
dance.
Capture Date: Oct. 28, 2003 - completed Dec. 2003
