
I Am A Chain Reaction
2 years ago
Concept:
Dana Gingras, Amit Pitaru, James Paterson
Programming & Animation:
James Paterson & Amit Pitaru
Choreography:
Dana Gingras
Dancers:
Dana Gingras & Sarah Doucet
Music:
Roger Tellier-Craig modifying The Knife.
This is an excerpt from 'I Am A Chain Reaction' which is one of seven works that make up the dance/animation/programming hybrid project, Smashup.
Smashup is the outcome of an ongoing collaboration between artists James Paterson & Amit Pitaru ( Insertsilence ), and dancer/choreographer Dana Gingras ( Animals of Distinction, The Holy Body Tattoo ). Smashup premiered in its complete form, an hour long performance, at the Festival Transamérique in Montreal in the summer of 2008.
Others involved in I Am A Chain Reaction are:
Dancer Sarah Doucet (the other being Gingras herself).
Musician Roger Tellier-Craig (of Fly Pan Am & Godspeed You! Black Emperor) who modified the song 'Bird' by swedish band 'The Knife'.
Visual artist Jeremy Felker who helped create the animated vignette that is present in the full 10 minute incarnation of the work.
The software component of I Am A Chain Reaction is projected from above and running live during the performance. This is a raw video recording from above and involves no compositing.
related sites:
James Paterson:
( presstube.com , insertsilence.com, bitforms.com )
Amit Pitaru:
( pitaru.com , insertsilence.com )
Dana Gingras:
( animalsofdistinction.org , holybodytattoo.org )
Sarah Doucet:
( facebook.com/people/Sarah-Doucet/586001829 )
Roger Tellier-Craig:
( cstrecords.com/bands/fly-pan-am , brainwashed.com/godspeed )
The Knife:
( theknife.net )
Dana Gingras, Amit Pitaru, James Paterson
Programming & Animation:
James Paterson & Amit Pitaru
Choreography:
Dana Gingras
Dancers:
Dana Gingras & Sarah Doucet
Music:
Roger Tellier-Craig modifying The Knife.
This is an excerpt from 'I Am A Chain Reaction' which is one of seven works that make up the dance/animation/programming hybrid project, Smashup.
Smashup is the outcome of an ongoing collaboration between artists James Paterson & Amit Pitaru ( Insertsilence ), and dancer/choreographer Dana Gingras ( Animals of Distinction, The Holy Body Tattoo ). Smashup premiered in its complete form, an hour long performance, at the Festival Transamérique in Montreal in the summer of 2008.
Others involved in I Am A Chain Reaction are:
Dancer Sarah Doucet (the other being Gingras herself).
Musician Roger Tellier-Craig (of Fly Pan Am & Godspeed You! Black Emperor) who modified the song 'Bird' by swedish band 'The Knife'.
Visual artist Jeremy Felker who helped create the animated vignette that is present in the full 10 minute incarnation of the work.
The software component of I Am A Chain Reaction is projected from above and running live during the performance. This is a raw video recording from above and involves no compositing.
related sites:
James Paterson:
( presstube.com , insertsilence.com, bitforms.com )
Amit Pitaru:
( pitaru.com , insertsilence.com )
Dana Gingras:
( animalsofdistinction.org , holybodytattoo.org )
Sarah Doucet:
( facebook.com/people/Sarah-Doucet/586001829 )
Roger Tellier-Craig:
( cstrecords.com/bands/fly-pan-am , brainwashed.com/godspeed )
The Knife:
( theknife.net )
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since then ive never stopped looking at it again and again!
Genius !
love it!
I have some questions, if you don't mind answering it... (I'll send it for Pitaru and Gingras as well)
I see that this project was developed three years ago and since then new technologies have emerged and became available to develop this type of project. Although I know the current technologies, I still have difficulty understanding the process of interaction in the show. Would you care to explain briefly how the show was made? Was the animation done previously including certain poses, or there was interaction between the drawings and the dancers in real time? I would love to know more about it and give more information to my blog readers...
Thank you!