unfortunately we had to postpone our trip back to our friends in northwestern greenland, but the reason was good, even happy. annesofie is pregnant with her wonderful boyfriend, daniel – who has joined the project as a sound artist.

finally we had some days together and annesofie norn and I spent them updating longing.gl, and posting some old texts in the blog, putting up videos of our performers, etc.

screenshot of the longingfastforward.gl website

we have now written and rewritten the texts for the project a dozen times over the last two years, and we think we’re getting better at describing our concepts, ideas and phantasms. hopefully others agree, and hopefully they are sponsors too…

it all started with wondering why we hear so much about animals and melting ice, but so little about the people living with it. the Inuit, who for millennia have inhabited the north. a culture overcoming both nature, vikings and the danes. why don’t we hear more about the modern society who has to tackle climate change, not only in the distant future, but right now?

have a look at http://longing.gl and tell us what you think.

Tickets are available at the DanceDigital website.

Click here to download the flyer for our performances at the Luton Hat Factory

Hats, Trains & Planes

“Hats, Trains & Planes” is a site specific performance about Luton and it’s industries. We are hoping to work with the Luton Choral Society, and are currently in rehearsals in the DanceDigital studios in Chelmsford.

Our brilliant dancers Owen, Sophia and Lola are creating material with Tina and i am programming the projected scenography, that will work with the concept of moving | travelling & home.

DanceDigital is blogging about our work, and have thus far made this film about the casting of the dancers:

Body Navigation

We’re showing Body Navigation at the Hat Factory on the 22nd of July. It’s the first chance to see the much acclaimed performance in the Greater London area.

Here’s our trailer for the performance

Trailer

Full performance

You can see more about the performance here.

what do you do when your own custom software has a zillion parameters that you want to cue easily, but over midi?
you inherit the standard cocoa controls and make their right click insert cues for themselves in the cueing software via applescript.

when we got it to work, we sent a small clip to our chris, who’s the developer behind qLab, our preferred cueing software.
and he put it in his blog, here’s a tiny blip from behind the scenes of our geekery:

http://figure53.com/blog/2010/02/06/qlab-scripting-custom-software-win/

every time we do this it seems crazy to sit an compile software in a theatre rehearsal, but it’s fun. and we’re not crashing that much anymore (sorry dancers)

Video by Danish Dance Theatre

here’s the first edit of the frost dance piece we made with danish dance theatre. tina got the edit up today.

we created the videoscenography using motion tracking implemented in openframeworks, opencv, opengl and cocoa.

see pictures and more from frost.

Choreography: Tina Tarpgaard (recoil)
Video artist: Ole Kristensen and Jonas Jongejan
Music: Jens Hørsving
Costumes: Charlotte Østergaard
Light Design: Andreas Buhl

Produced by Danish Dance Theatre
Thanks to: Emma- Cecillia Ajanki, Frieder Weiss, Matias Seibæk and Andreas Olsen, Anders Jørgensen, Illutron

enjoy!

the new recoil performance group homepage

Have a look at http://www.recoil-performance.org

http://longingfastforward.wordpress.com

the settlement of savissivik

we are here to research for our project longing fast forward, and hope to stay here for a year starting next summer.
it is quite an experience to meet the sparsely distributed hunters and villagers who make their living from the nature up here.
in the north of greenland global warming is not just an abstract future, but a very present reality. local warming affects the hunters, who depend on a stably frozen sea for fishing and winter transport on dogsleighs.
we are fortunate to meet a lot of hospitable people and hear a lot of stories, and are filling harddrives and hearts with the present and the history of these guys, who still hunt from kayaks as a way of life.

Here it is, the documentation of Recoil’s TimeMap#3 performance. Tina got the edit up today, and it is a full video of the 2nd act of the show.

The three dancers have worked from a base of true stories from past, present and future. They meet here in the court room in a battle with words – from taking orders to making them fly across the screens.

Ole Kristensen and Jonas Jongejan created the videoscenography using motion tracking implemented in openFrameworks (see the video “Timemap software programming” for details – vimeo.com/3548185 ).

Dancers: Laura Lohi, Anna Pehrsson, Kasper Ravnhoj.
Light design: Michael Breiner and Soren Knud.
Music: Pelle Skovmand
Choreography: Tina Tarpgaard

Enjoy!

A morning aboard the Amara Zee, before Melissa and I head of to our ‘office’. We are currently in production with the Caravan Stage in Galaxidi, Greece, before going on tour up the Adriatic.

The Caravan Stage Tall Ship Theatre Company is quite an experience, it is based solely on donations and sponsorships from companies, private persons and cities along the way. All aboard the show work for free, save the weekly ‘allowance’ of 20€ – which is immediately recycled into the beer fund …

The company is a registered as a charitable foundation in the US and Canada. You learn how to made do with what you’ve got, live a simple, but good life.

For more about the incredible Caravan Stage, the captain and director Paul Kirby and his wife and producer Adrianna Kelder, have a look at:

http://caravanstage.org