Frost
Minna
Minna
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 2011 Amman International Dance Festival, Amman
11 2010 Danish Dance Theatre at Dansehallerne, Carlsberg, Copenhagen
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
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- Photo by Søren Knud Christensen
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- Photo by Nelson Rodriguez-Smith
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- Photo by Nelson Rodriguez-Smith
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- Photo by Søren Knud Christensen
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- Photo by Søren Knud Christensen
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- Photo by Nelson Rodriguez-Smith
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- Photo by Søren Knud Christensen
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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