Real-time Video Imaging to Enhance Student Learning and Feedback in Dance Performance
David Collins, School of Intermedia and Performance Arts, Doncaster College
Disciplines: Dance
Status: Current
Start date: 1/9/2006
This Project is the exploration of development of new software (Kalypso) alongside educational tools for dancers who utilize real time video systems within choreography.
Kalypso is currently being developed for Windows operating systems and incorporates a live video feed with a simple software interface, which includes modules that are dragged onto "layers". These modules are then edited to determine such features as time delays, difference, or texture onto a live video feed. The live video that Kalypso is manipulating can be used within a performance setting by being projected into a performance space. Because it is based upon live feed video, an immediate relationship is built between the performers and the video projection. Kalypso allows performers to create new meanings and layers within that relationship because of its real-time features and controls.
Development of learning tools to accompany Kalypso has begun with the development of exercises in which students engage with the software in both technologist and performer roles. The aim is to make student not just aware of how to operate the software but also how they can creatively engage with technology in the devising of a performance piece.