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The Viral Dance Video That Makes You Happy
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:56:49 -0800
The hottest thing on YouTube at the moment may be a relatively simple video of a guy dancing, "a big, doughy-looking fellow in shorts and hiking boots performing an arm-swinging, knee-pumping step that could charitably be called goofy... However you interpret it, you can't watch "Dancing" for very long without feeling a little happier."...
Another Leadership Change At Washington Ballet
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:40:19 -0800
"The Washington Ballet announced yesterday that it has hired Orlando Ballet Executive Director Russell P. Allen as its new chief administrator... Allen will be the ballet's fourth top administrator since Artistic Director Septime Webre arrived in 1999."...
London's Week Of Dance Records
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:01:59 -0800
"Over the coming week more of the city's dancers are being called on to generate yet more press by participating in the record-breaking activities dominating the festival. For example: performing the biggest ever Bollywood dance; executing the largest number of football freestyle tricks in one minute; amassing the largest number of couples jiving simultaneously; getting more than 191 ballet dancers balancing on pointe for one minute, and achieving the largest number of streetdance moves in a minute."...
A Chinese Choreographer Goes Home
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:54:48 -0800
"Thirteen years ago Shen Wei was a dancer, a choreographer and the founder of the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, the first of its kind in China. He was a rising star in his nation but craved to know more about Western dance than he could learn there. His movements combine Eastern and Western ideas, drawing from Chinese opera, martial arts, Abstract Expressionism and Western Modernism."...
Large Dance Fests Rethink And Diversify
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:54:02 -0800
"Organisers of similar large-scale dance parties this summer will be nervously watching the skies. Yet there's also a feeling that dance promoters are facing other, less elemental pressures. Creamfields, due to celebrate its 10th anniversary this August, is hoping to attract over 40,000 visitors with 'the most diverse line-up ever seen at a UK dance festival'."...
Dance Show Tops Network TV Ratings
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:52:09 -0800
Two hours of "So You Think You Can Dance" made Fox the top-rated network on Wednesday night, as 8.7 million viewers tuned in to the dancing competition from 8 to 10, according to Nielsen's estimates....

 

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Technology Zone - DTZ is a resource for artists and others who are particularly interested in using new media and information technologies in the creation and performance of dance, dance theater and related live performance works.
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the Computer: Potential for Synergy - Don Herbison-Evans of Basser Department of Computer Science describes the various uses of computers in Dance

4Dart.com - On stage, performers interact with virtual images projected into space. The performing arts tradition fuses with new digital technology to create these illusions.
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Bedford Interactive - Non-profit research partnership making educational dance resources in multimedia.

Big Room: Web Dances - Richard Lord experiments with creating dance for the web

Digital Performance Archive, The - Documents developments in the creative use of computer technologies in performance. The DPA also collates examples of how computer technologies are being used to create, document or analyse performance.

DNC Project, The - A digital playground attempting to get dancers more involved in the act of creation of digital tools as well as tailoring existing software for use in dance.

Ghostcatching - Virtual dance collaboration project. Ghostcatching finds its place in the unexpected intersection of dance, drawing, and computer composition...
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Hands-On Dance Project - A site where you can be involved in creating dance interactively with live dancers. Web-based tasks, email and video-conferencing will enable you to join us in the creative process. Everyone is welcome, regardless of previous dance experience.
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Litefoot Project, The - A collaborative project to develop a floor-space to research the development of immersive and collaborative environments in creative virtual contexts: eg. Track impact of the feet of a dancer.

M@ggie's Love Bytes - Cybermedia exploration of a dance theatre performance occurring in real and virtual space.

Motherboard - Performances and installations which utilise and relate to digital pop culture and social interaction.
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Palindrome Intermedia Performance Group - Digital, computer-assisted performances based in Nürnberg, Germany.

S H I F T S - IDAT99 connection - Workshop for individuals working in dance and technology, in conjuction with the International Dance and Technology conference.