Interactive Animation at Firebird Rising

Ballet, circus acrobatics, puppets, and even a stilt-walker are choreographed by Stephen Hues for Firebird Rising at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood. This high-octane musical mash-up of Stravinsky and electronic dance music is synchronized to animation projected on and around the performers. 

Choreography: Stephen Hues
Performance: Jennifer Curry Wingrove, AJ Abrams
Music: Kate & Martin St. Pierre
Animation: Kurosh ValaNejad

The animation for the Coda section was made with my Body Scrub device spatializing the frames in this sequence:

Dancers Jennifer Curry Wingrove and AJ Abrams rehearse the Coda section in front of my laptop and sensor.

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Rehearsal, May 19, 2013

Ms. Wingrove channels 1890′s Broadway dancer Annabelle Whitford. 
Wingrove’s Serpentine Dance beautifully illustrates the Body Scrub’s ability to portray spatial depth. The Serpentine Dance was a frequent subject of early motion pictures, as it highlighted the new medium’s ability to portray movement and light. Two particularly well-known versions were Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894) from Edison Studios, and an 1896 Lumière brothers film.

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