Multi-Disciplinary Exchange: Composition for Media and the Stage

Date:
28 June 2010
Time:
10:00 - 16:00
Venue:
DanceHouse
Admission:
€50 (members); €70 (non-members)
Teacher:
Dawn Stoppiello & Mark Coniglio
Following on from Body and Theatre, we present the second in our series of multi-disciplinary exchanges. This interactive media workshop is an intensive laboratory for artists who wish to explore the creation of media intensive performances for the stage. As pioneers of the form with over twenty years' experience, Troika Ranch Artistic Directors Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stoppiello will guide participants through a series of compositional problems focused on a single question: how does one bring performers, visual and sonic media together to create a compelling and truly unified work?

After discussing a particular relationship between performer and media at the beginning of each day, Coniglio and Stoppiello will launch the students into a process of creatively solving the problem through the creation of a short study. The trajectory of the exercises is designed so that the outcomes can be woven together into a longer study that the participants can present to each other at the workshop's conclusion. Topics to be covered include:

* Effectively integrating live performers and video imagery on stage
* Using live video/audio feeds to amplify or re-contextualise performer and themes
* Applying notions of film grammar to on-stage imagery
* Use of reactive/interactive systems as an intensifier of liveness
* Considering alternative projection surfaces and/or materials

Throughout the workshop, participants will be introduced to Isadora®, the user-friendly, real-time media manipulation tool created by Mark Coniglio. The focus will be on introducing key features that allow participants address the compositional problem at hand.

Please note that workshop places are limited and will be allocated based on the suitability and previous relevant experience. Participants are asked to bring their own equipment if possible (laptop, video camera, microphone, MIDI input devices or other sensory systems). Contact Audrey Houdart about technical requirements. CV and letter of interest should be sent to Audrey on audrey.houdart@danceireland.ie by 15 June, 5pm.

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