Looking for 3D artists

Please send an email at dancekk@earthlink.net or robotmadeofcheese@yahoo.com if you are interested and I can explain more about the project. David Or

robotmadeofcheese@yahoo.com

About the Project

Blocks of Continuality/Movement-Live Cinema

Koosil-ja with the media group, koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO is currently working on a new project, Blocks of Continuality/Movement- Live Cinema (Blocks). Blocks is a dance and live cinema work and tells three stories at the same time to simulate our coexistence, our living, in the world of digital and flesh.

Blocks is created by Josh Goldberg, Robert Ramirez, David Or, Geoff Matters, Melissa Guerrero, and Koosil-ja.

The media group creates the digital scenery in a 3D space and a system that would detect the location of a dancer in real space, therefore moving images in the virtual space according to the dancer’s movement.

As the piece progresses, the seemingly autonomous stories and sites will begin to intersect and overlap. An object discarded from one location will re-appear in another; a dancer will suddenly move from the screen to the stage, or depart from one story only to pass through another. The resulting chain of connections is the thematic core of the piece, and also provides its structure.

Currently, we are in residency at Brooklyn College Performance and Interactive Media Arts for the Motion Capture Lab facility. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Program offers the facility and fund for the work-in-progress performance in November/December 2008 for a month. We are in discussion with a venue in Yokohama and Tokyo for a possibility to present Blocks. We have been also in discussion with a venue in NYC to commission and present Blocks of Continuality Movement-Live Cinema in 2009.

Blocks of Continuality Movement-Live Cinema is funded by The Japan Foundation, New York State Cultural Council Film and New Media, National Endowment for the Arts, and American Music Center Live Music for the Dance Program.

About the previous project Dance Without Bodies

Berlin Zeitung

August 25th 2007

A Short Flash of Counter Culture

The Performance Program 'Nomadic New York' at Das Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt

By Doris Meierheinrich

In regard to something as big as the House of World Cultures it is bold to focus on the 'Smal'l. Andre Lepecki, dance theorist and curator of the performance program Nomadic New York has the Chutzpah, and borrowed the concept of Gilles Deleuze's 'Small' for the occasion. What that means is 'Pure Intensity' of expression before all meaning, a rootless use of language that was once regarded as revolutionary by Deleuze. The fact that the 23 New Yorker arts promulgators are being enobled, too, with the moniker of 'Intensity' by their curator, liberates them from having to be 'representative,' but only a few are 'revolutionary' in the aspect of the 'Small'.

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It is called the 'play of differences'. And the American of Korean descent Koosil-ja in Dance Without Bodies is celebrating it most impressively and radically. Together with a twin-like assistant she dances around a screen and amidst 30 monitors, on which fragments of gangster movies, scenes from Noh Theater, Mangas, and Indian dance films are being played. Both dancers are copying those fragments of movements in their dancing and open up a room of echo and perception between the virtual images and their asynchronous dance copy, that couldn't be richer in relatedness. Each moment carries along its manifold predecessor, yet in the actual moment of dance repetition remains unique and different. Koosil-ja doesn't demonstrate artificial feats, she shows dance as a search that is alive, as a repetition of the 'never same', as a walk through times and contexts, as an event through which a 'thousand plateaus' shimmer, and which yet remains infinitely light, because it is not weighted down by a commitment to content. Precisely that makes it surely the 'smallest' and 'most revolutionary' art.