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Bounce is a new dance cabaret produced by triPOD dance collective that showcases original creations by independent dance and physical theatre artists. Performances take place at the Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad St. in Victoria, B.C. Canada.
About the hardware, software and new tools for dance and technology.
Theoretical investigation, very open: cultural studies, phenomenology, philosophy, etc
I saw this a few weeks ago, isn't this awesome?
OMG'ess who knew technology had come so far, has anyone used any of these ideas for live performance? I was told chunky move tours with more technicians than dancers.
In a even more towards technology orientated society, how can we combine the costumes and gestures of the ancients with computers and audiovisual devises without loosing our connection to the universe and our roots ? High tech and corporal memory ?
As dance and technology is increasingly being taught throughout various programmes and outlets, this group's focus is the sharing of teaching practice and experiences in learning environments.
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- FULL NAME
- Constance Cooke
- Do you want this account to represent:
- individual human (me), organization of humans (us) many of you
- If you are an organization, what kind of organization?
- Company, Education
- About Me (human):
- Independent Choreographer and Teacher of Contemporary Dance, Improvisation, Creative Process.
Artistic Director VSC Dance.
On faculty D4 Camera Intensive Victoria.
- Where are you based?
- Canada, Victoria British Columbia.
Three studio locations
- Languages that you would use in this network besides English:
- None sorry
- Areas of interest on performance and new media
- Dance for Camera
Performance Video
Performance Art
Contemporary Dance
New Media & Technologies
Street Theatre
- How did you learn about dance-tech.net?
- a friend
- Environments and applications that you use the most for your projects
- Final Cut ( or any other video editing), camera work, dance forms
- How do you train yourself or your performers. How do you approach your embodied practices? what kind of technique do you use?
- It is important to be present and conscious of today’s artistic climate and strive to create new and innovative approaches to creation and training. I believe strongly in the practices of simplifying, taking risks, and revealing and in developing artists who are pliable, responsive, , and open-minded.
- How do you relate your work to the goal of this site? how would you like to participate?
- I am eager to learn and experience new technologies to support the work I am exploring.
- Any additional information about your self or your organization (your BIO or or the Mission of the organization you represent):
- Constance Cooke
Biography 2009
Constance Cooke is an acclaimed, teacher and choreographer of contemporary dance in Canada. She is the Artistic Director of The Victoria School Of Contemporary Dance and an invited guest choreographer, and teacher for some of Canada’s leading centre’s in dance including The CanAsian Dance Festival, the International Dance 4 Camera Intensive and Contemporary Dancers Her physically vigorous and artistically challenging classes nurture individual expression and self-confidence while promoting kinesthetic awareness, body /mind integration, and conscious qualitive movement choices. Her technique classes combine the principles of release work and core strength with a solid and clean technical base influenced by the techniques of Limon, and Horton. Constance also loves to incorporate improvisation and creative process into class.
Every year Constance graduates a number of her students into Canada's finest professional training programmes - Toronto Dance Theatre, York University, Ryerson Theatre School, Simon Fraser University, The National Ballet of Canada, and Contemporary Dancers Many of Constance's former students are currently dancing with professional companies throughout Canada, the United States and Europe and have gone on to established their own companies, and independent careers.
Constance's choreography has been presented across Canada by various companies, theaters, and festivals. Her professional work is considered by many to be provoking challenging and innovative. Her body of work includes a number of full-length productions (Salome the Headhuntress , Viva Frida , and S/kin .Constance has also worked on a number of dance for camera films including three of her own, and is an eager participant and movement teacher in the International Dance for Camera intensive held each year in Victoria with Gugenheim scholar, Ellen Bromberg (University of Utah).
Constance has been the recipient of numerous awards, scholarships and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Manitoba Arts Council and the Vancouver Foundation.
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- At 11:42pm on April 26, 2009,
kimberly tuson said…
- Sounds like fun, what would I be doing? I'm in San Francisco right now, I'm officially a pre trainer for gyrotonic now.... yippeeee
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The early Victorians were the first generation to see themselves through the camera lens, but the idea of photography, the possibility of making an exact reproduction of visual experience, was one – like flight and the philosophers' stone – that had haunted the imagination of inventors for centuries. - Submission | Pictoplasma | Berlin
an open CALL FOR ENTRIES for the Festival's big screen animation programs. - In pictures: Earth - Art of a changing world | Environment | guardian.co.uk
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The core issue of New Times New Models is how relations can be improved between public authorities, the private sector and independent cultural centres.
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