Exploring the interfaces between body, motion, gesture and projected image, this work enables dancers to become "brushes" serendipitously creating a painterly composition through performance. The real-time reactive graphics system that I created for this recent re-staging of a Cunningham minEvent utilizes expressive artificial intelligence to engage Cunningham's aesthetic principles of indeterminacy to complement and, at times, amplify the dancers' movements on stage.
Like all Cunningham minEvents, choreography, sound, lighting, costume, and video were designed by different artists in isolation from each other and purposefully only combined at the time of performance.
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This iteration of the minEvent was performed in Northampton Massachusetts at the Mendenhall Center in 2011.