this image is taken from the "House of Diabolique" check out their website http://www.houseofdiabolique.com/runway.htm

much love and respect to my vogueing queens.
WORK!!!

MIRA!!!! Chunkymove, "GLOW"

BOMBA- an animation

Check out the animation for this dance form known as BOMBA. This style of dance & music is from the island of Puerto Rico. The dancer uses her skirt as an instrument to challenge the drummers rythmn.

black & white on a green screen

ideas for the shoot

This piece is by Raymond Salvatore Harmon
"colorform" (2006)

http://www.archive.org/details/colorform

TREATMENT

Aesthetically
-morphing
- positive and negative
-as expressed through lighting → projections-revealing & hiding
- black & white

Methodology
- mix live action footage with post minipulation
- after effects
- some programming using Max/MSP, glovepie (if we use Wii)
- metallic make-up / white

Elements
- dancers – in silhouettes
- movements of body
- profile facial gestures & hand gestures
- animated pieces (ie, silhouettes & shadow [puppets])

Visual Techniques
-rotoscoping – extracting the silhouettes
-color treatment (settle color treatment amongst black & white)

Software
Max/Msp
Adobe After Effects
Final Cut Pro

Production Materials
Fans (air)
Dancers
DP
Costumes
Make-up artist

Production Techniques
Time lapse
Projections –on dancer and on stage
Silhouettes—on dancer and on stage


Post Production Techniques
Time / Speed: forward, backwards, slow & fast

Exhibition and Interactive Materials
ZML
Senors→ need to research

Costume Materials
White skirts
Hand fans
Lots of material
Isis wings

Dance Technique
Punkin,
Vouging
Yemaya / Oshun
Post-Modern

the skirt as a catalyst to my inspiration

Loie Fuller, i am inspired by you..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loie_Fuller

check out some youtube footage





IDEAS, i'm just letting them flow....conversations on gmail

Veronica & i ....creating here is a piece of our conversation...(just for kicks)

Veronica:......i like the race/ border/ invasion feelings that conjures up

but it's more just about black white... silhouettes

11:34 PM me: hmm--womyns bodies exploitation, borders

or the body

Veronica: skirts, protection, aesthetic beauty, guarded

hiding bodies.

deformities

11:35 PM me: hiding gender

Veronica: i like the idea of some cross gender things

hiding too many limbs

hiding too few...you know

11:36 PM revelation. disrobing not what you expected

me: what do you mean

Veronica: throwing out words

11:37 PM because the skirt is beautiful, it hides, it reveals

it teases

11:38 PM me: hmm, it's sacred, its appeasing, it can be controlled

Veronica: what if what was underneath, wasn't what you expected? or what if that's just implied... or what if it's shown

me: underneath the skirt are secrets

11:39 PM Veronica: yep

we're onto something

me: yes

here are some thoughts to chew on...
i am inspired: by using a skirt to create projections. i would like to project words, textures, images, create patterns.

i am inspired: to use a skirt because it replicates the ocean waves, river streams, & represent divinity. it holds secrets, is a passageway to a liminal state (in between state).

dance forms i'd like to explore--yemaya, oshun, punkin', bomba, postmodern, sabar...i am interested in working with the arms and upper half of the body....

Inspiration

Mixplay is the name of this project by Uniqlo. The interface is designed to "Mix your own dance and soundmix" The dancers are a group called Umin.
http://www.uniqlo.jp/mixplay/


I appreciate how each dancer embodies the sound.The dance style is a street dance form known as Pop'n (or poppin) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppin I also love the colors and the white background. This interface is a great way to have users create their own sound mixes.

My overall goal for this class is to create an interactive visual media installation that involves users creating the sound mix with their own body movement.