This project explores liminal space digitally, emotionally and physically. Examining my relation to feelings of in-betweenness, anxiety, and uncertainty, I developed movement prompts embodying these sensations. My dance partner and I brought these prompts into the dance studio, crafting phrases that explored thresholds, suspension, transitions and impending doom.
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I recorded our movement and put the footage into TouchDesigner. I was inspired by 90s internet dance visuals, like Stuart Shapiro’s video magazine Dance International, which combined dance and music documentary footage with graphics, glitch effects, and retro-futuristic designs.
Creating a PointCloud in TouchDesigner from our video merged our fluid movements with fragmented, glitch-inspired visuals, creating an interplay between the organic and digital. I am currently experimenting with these visuals as a work-in-progress and envision evolving them into a long-form dance film or a live performance with kinetic projections.
“They challenge old norms and want to replace them with new understandings of complexity of black identity, and the need for liberation struggles that address that complexity....Looking at one another, staring in mirrors they appear completely focused on their encounter with black femaleness. How they see themselves is most important, not how they will be stared at by others.” -bell hooks
Made in collaboration with Charlie Caldwell.