LIQUIDBODY MEDIA
PROJECTS FALL 2004

Nude Ascending a Staircase is a video dance work shot at the School of Visual Arts with Larry Hillier, cinematographer and cinematography instructor. It is being edited in the LiquidBody media studio. Using the cubist painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" as a jumping off point, the idea of multiple angles of perception occurring within one "moving object" is explored. Cubism in motion.

Meeting in the Shimmer is a multimedia stage work with video projection on a fabric sculpture backdrop by Gisela Stromeyer that visualizes some of the nonlinear spaces referenced by the piece - the shimmer that appears before an embryo forms, the essence of regenerative energy, totipetant space, the cycles of dissolving and forming organic structure. The shimmer is sculpted live by the video artist and projected to subtely appear to emanate from the bodies of the improvising dancers.
Beacon is a multimedia dance work that projects a live duet on the back wall behind the dancers. Particularly evocative, gestural moments are captured in freeze frame and slowly dissolved back to the live gestural dialogue onstage. These moments become beacons of sculpted light allowing the viewer to experience the dance both as the exquisite flow of dialogue between the dancers in real time, and also as resonant sculpture beyond time.
Portals is a videodance that is set inside doors.  Working with the idea of a crossroads framed to accentuate the emergence of the visceral impulse that propels a body into motion.  Contrasts the static and linear form with the fluidly ephemeral.
Alchemy is a multimedia dance that immerses the dancer in projected video of the four alchemical elements of earth, air, fire and water. The transformative capacities of the body are explored with the help of audience toning with sounds corresponding to the four elements.

Continuum Movement Archival Project is produced by Julianne Blake.  LiquidBody Media continues the important ongoing project of archiving the visionary work of Emilie Conrad's Continuum Movement.
Primal Resonance is a multimedia dance with aerial moments that uses two video projectors to transform fabric into moving sculpture and create a dynamic environment for movement.  Invocation creates a golden space, Circles references evolutionary cycles, Electricity uses video artist triggered lightning flashes, Skins allows a dancer to morph into different "skins", Fireflies sets the environment twinkling, And Ever references a colorful forest environment from dusk to dawn.

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