Lighting up the Dance Community
Let 's face it, technology in the 21st century has influenced an abounding number of things, from how we go about socialising with one another to the simplest tasks like online shopping. It is therefore no surprise that technology has also impacted the performing arts and managed to further integrate technology with the dance communities. Alas, people have witnessed such complexity through the use of technology in two contemporary pieces such as, Gideon Obarzaneks Mortal Engine and the fourth film of the Step Up franchise. First a recap of the new Step up 4 Revolution, it begins with a Miami newcomer, Emily. Emily dreams of becoming a professional dancer, but soon finds herself contemplating joining forces …show more content…
The technology was utilised to create a more complex outlook, as the stage design and lighting designer teamed up with the contemporary art form to further evolve it. By intergrading dance and technology through the movement and non-movement components Mortal Engine has achieved this. Throughout Mortal Engine, a much more complex outline of technicalities have managed to have been incorporated, the electronic soundscape offers an unpredictable and dissonant soundtrack that creates an eerie atmosphere along with the clouded coloured lighting that follows the solo-female dancer wherever she may go, therefore enhancing the uncomfortable atmosphere. The white stage, was made out of _____ that projected objects throughout the dance, the integration between the projected floorboard and the female dancer is shown throughout the dance but at the very beginning the floorboard projects rhythmic ripple of blue circles, the audience does not realise the female dancer is there until the ripples overpass her body. The lighting throughout the piece is solemnly pitch black, with only lighting around the dancers. In particular in one section the solo-female dancer in a mesh leotard is surrounded by a white light in the outline of her body, until suddenly another troupe of dancers crawl on, these particular dancers are surrounded by a black light. The movement components of the solo female dancer consist of abstract actions, such as unravelling her legs from a closed in position to a flat belly position, then lifting her arms and ankles with pointed toes to the sky, creating a curved semi-circle. After this occurs the female solo dancer, then performs a series of sharp, angular movements until she folds her body in half whilst her hands are curved over and pointed towards the sky, along with her toes. The projected floor-boards then turn into a completely
Let 's face it, technology in the 21st century has influenced an abounding number of things, from how we go about socialising with one another to the simplest tasks like online shopping. It is therefore no surprise that technology has also impacted the performing arts and managed to further integrate technology with the dance communities. Alas, people have witnessed such complexity through the use of technology in two contemporary pieces such as, Gideon Obarzaneks Mortal Engine and the fourth film of the Step Up franchise. First a recap of the new Step up 4 Revolution, it begins with a Miami newcomer, Emily. Emily dreams of becoming a professional dancer, but soon finds herself contemplating joining forces …show more content…
The technology was utilised to create a more complex outlook, as the stage design and lighting designer teamed up with the contemporary art form to further evolve it. By intergrading dance and technology through the movement and non-movement components Mortal Engine has achieved this. Throughout Mortal Engine, a much more complex outline of technicalities have managed to have been incorporated, the electronic soundscape offers an unpredictable and dissonant soundtrack that creates an eerie atmosphere along with the clouded coloured lighting that follows the solo-female dancer wherever she may go, therefore enhancing the uncomfortable atmosphere. The white stage, was made out of _____ that projected objects throughout the dance, the integration between the projected floorboard and the female dancer is shown throughout the dance but at the very beginning the floorboard projects rhythmic ripple of blue circles, the audience does not realise the female dancer is there until the ripples overpass her body. The lighting throughout the piece is solemnly pitch black, with only lighting around the dancers. In particular in one section the solo-female dancer in a mesh leotard is surrounded by a white light in the outline of her body, until suddenly another troupe of dancers crawl on, these particular dancers are surrounded by a black light. The movement components of the solo female dancer consist of abstract actions, such as unravelling her legs from a closed in position to a flat belly position, then lifting her arms and ankles with pointed toes to the sky, creating a curved semi-circle. After this occurs the female solo dancer, then performs a series of sharp, angular movements until she folds her body in half whilst her hands are curved over and pointed towards the sky, along with her toes. The projected floor-boards then turn into a completely