BCCC Room: Library 302
MCCC Room:
Track: Arts and Humanities
Description:
This dance telematics presentation is a look at how advanced networking has enabled researchers within the discipline of dance to expand and redefine traditional practices of production design, access, and studio-related studies. Developing and evolving practices include applications for Choreography and Performance, Dance Technique, Repertory, Improvisation, and Integrated Multimedia Production. Challenges and successes are discussed using case studies involving Florida State University School of Dance initiatives with research partners at Ohio State, University of Utah, Wayne State, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, and Butler University. This progress report on integrating movement and Internet technologies is a behind the scenes look at planning and producing a variety of dance telematic sessions. The presentation emphasizes visual design aesthetics in relation to projection geometry and camera placement and framing. Venues are illustrated with stage/studio diagrams and other documentation.
About the Presenter:
Tim Glenn, former member of the Nikolais & Murray Louis Dance Company, is Associate Professor in the School of Dance at Florida State University. His primary interests in dance technology include digital media, videodance, telematics, and multimedia theater. His work involves many media-related projects, among them producing web-based resources (ChoreoVideo.com & DanceDocumentation.com) for applying performance techniques to camerawork, and designing mediated environments in which dancers interact in real-time via Internet2 from distant locations. He has worked as videographer for the Paul Taylor Dance Company's Repertory Preservation Project since 2003 and has documented over 30 masterworks by Taylor. He has been an invited presenter for the National Association of Schools of Dance and serves as consultant for a number of dance organizations. Influenced by his mentor, Alwin Nikolais, Glenn enjoys ''total theater'' design, including costume design and construction. In 2008, Glenn directed and produced a restaging and film project based on his 1996 work, Embodiments of Silence, and in 2005 premiered Aqueous Myth: Tales of a Water Planet, a full evening of dance and technology commissioned by the National Center for Choreography. Glenn has been the curator of Dance on Camera - Tallahassee, an international screening of dance films, and from 2001-2005 served as Technology Director for the National Center for Choreography at FSU. Glenn teaches courses in dance technology including dance video and projection design, and also offers modern dance technique and repertory courses primarily influenced by the Nikolais/Louis philosophy and method of performance. Glenn received his M.F.A. in Dance from The Ohio State University where, after earning his degree, he worked for the Department of Dance and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design. He is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S. Dance & B.S. InterArts and Technology) where he taught modern dance and improvisation. Prior to membership in the Nikolais Company, Tim performed with the Melrose Motion Company in Madison, WI, directed by former Nikolais dancer Claudia Melrose. Choreographing since 1987, Glenn's repertoire has been performed internationally in The Netherlands and Japan, as well as in numerous national venues. He is the recipient of the Gene Kelly Award for the Performing Arts presented by the National Alliance for Excellence and the Leo Award for Choreography from the Jazz Dance World Congress.Resources:
- Presentation Outline (PDF)
- The 2010 Intermedia Festival
- Tim's Fall Internet2 Member Meeting Presentation Video
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