Upcoming Shows

Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA (October 22, 2009-October 25, 2009)

Herberger Theater
Phoenix, AZ (November 6, 2009 & November 7, 2009)

About
STREB – BRAVE is my 3rd collaboration with Elizabeth Streb, and our first to utilize responsive and generative visual content. Using video tracking and custom sensors (developed by Arizona State University’s Arts, Media and Engineering Department), we sense the position, velocity and direction of performers and equipment. This information is used to control responsive and visceral 3-d environments. This project uses openFrameworks, an open source C++ library, to create the real-time visuals, and we’ve created a specialized playback software, “playOF” to facilitate the realities of creating a powerful, responsive and tour-able projection design.

Collaborators
Aaron Henderson – Projection Design
Elizabeth Streb – Choreography
Mark Beasley – openFrameworks/Python programming
Byron Lahey – Pendaphone development*
Winslow Burleson – Pendaphone development*

*Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University

Tour History
Prospect Park Bandshell (Brooklyn NY), The State Theater (New Brunswick, NJ), SLAM (Brooklyn, NY), University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI)

Related posts:

1. STREB VS GRAVITY
2. STREB – Wild Blue Yonder
3. Catapult Review – Village Voice

“…Aaron Henderson’s vivid projection design shows us some numbers from overhead, occasionally multiplying images into kaleidoscopic patterns. Shapes swim in and out of focus. The short sentences in Laura Flanders’s libretto are projected kookily in addition to being heard on tape. You might want to memorize them for your next science test, as well as for a clue to the impending action (sample: “There is no stasis, only a sequence of situations”)…”

Photograph by Tom Caravaglia

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Related posts:

1. Fall for Dance Festival Review – New York Times
2. SLAM SHOW X Review – New York Times
3. STREB – Wild Blue Yonder

Photograph by Richard Termine

“…In “Moon” the dancers move on their sides on the floor, but a video projects them onto a screen as if upright, offering the semblance of liberation from gravity. A similar technique is used for one of the program’s best pieces, “Orbit,” in which two performers are suspended in harnesses, around a central pole, their bodies parallel to the ground while a film shows them upright. As they somersault, fly and walk around and over each other, they tumble weightlessly through the air on the film.

This is Ms. Streb at her ingenious best…”

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Related posts:

1. Fall for Dance Festival Review – New York Times
2. Catapult Review – Village Voice
3. Hello Beautiful Interview

“…The best of these was “Moon,” a clever trompe l’oeil that projects the movement of seven dancers sliding prone across a waxed floor, onto a screen. The effect is apparent liberation from the constraints of gravity or the limits of human strength, and the charm lies partly in a cultivated illusion of effort. In one sequence the dancers form a human ladder, “wobbling” on a single hand of the person beneath, yet impossibly angled out into space…”

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Photograph by Stephanie Berger

Related posts:

1. SLAM SHOW X Review – New York Times
2. Catapult Review – Village Voice
3. Miscellaneous STREB Reviews