Frost

Moonlight solo

Minna's Moon solo from Frost

Modern Dance Performance

Recoil Performance Group for Danish Dance Theatre, Fall 2009

A reactive projection scenography for a Dansk Danseteater / Danish Dance Theatre dance performance. Developed with choreographer Tina Tarpgaard and programmer Jonas Jongejan.

Working with the talented dancers of Danish Dance Theatre, we created a universe of frozen bodies, melting ice and dripping waters. The scenography is primarily consisting of video projections in concert with Andreas Buhl‘s lighting design, primarily using led based light sources to accomodate the intricacies of infrared tracking.

Frost was from the outset designed to be tour-friendly and as such our software has to be flexible and easily adjustable for different stage dimensions.

The software is open source and we are very grateful to the openFrameworks community, whose efforts form the basis of our programming work. The software for Frost intergrates openFrameworks into a cocoa-based Mac OS X Snow Leopard application running on a mac pro seeing the dancers through three Point Grey Flea 2 IEEE 1394b cameras, showing the openGL graphics using a single video projector with a 0.7 wide angle optics and qued from qLab using apple’s midi networking capabilities.

Awards

2010 Best Dance Performance of the Year, Reumert Awards, Copenhagen

Performances

05 2010 Excerpt performed at the Reumert Awards Ceremony, Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen
10 2009 Danish Dance Theatre at Hipppodromen, Folketeatret.dk, Copenhagen

Requirements

  • Recent generation Apple Mac Pro
  • 3 Point Grey Flea 2 Cameras with ir-pass filters
  • 3 Infrared lights, diffused
  • Videoprojector, min. 10.000 ansi lumens with 0.7 optics
  • Conventional as well as led based lighting fixtures attached to a GrandMA lighting desk
  • The aforementioned talented dance company

Video

Video by Danish Dance Theatre

Photos

Photos by Søren Knud Christensen and Nelson Rodriques-Smith

Links

Frost at Dansk Danseteater (in Danish)

Frost at Danish Dancetheatre (in English)

Frost at Dansk Danseteater (in Danish)

Source Code

The source code is available at Google Code.
It’s messy, it’s the first time we did something in cocoa and objective c, but it’s there. Run at your own risk.
the apps compile on a Mac using Xcode. You also need open frameworks. While the code is full of all kinds of nice trickeries, the application itself is not of much use outside the scope of our performance. apart from a quite big space and a professional dance company, it works tightly together with custom hardware and third party apps such as qlab – not even mentioning the lib dependencies…


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  2. Frost | Haroon's Blog 2.15.10 / 10pm

    [...] Frost by Ole Kristensen, a reactive projection scenography for a Dansk Danseteater / Danish Dance Theatre dance performance. Developed with choreographer Tina Tarpgaard and programmer Jonas Jongejan using Openframeworks. [via creativeapplications.net] categories installation, interactive share you can follow any responses to this entry via RSS. you can leave a comment or trackback from your own site. [...]

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  3. Ca mange pas de pain » Danse et interaction 5.18.10 / 12am

    [...] Frost par Ole Hristensen [...]

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  4. Michael Helmbrecht 6.12.10 / 11am

    hey ole,

    i couldn’t find the connection part between arduino and openframeworks in your code. could you give me a hint how it works.

    thanks,
    micha

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