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Taking Your Experience for Mine

Spring 2010, Contemporary Dance

A dance performance piece exploring the relationship of the body and technology; is there a new language? What will happen if we always connect through a device? If we are always collecting and deflecting information in such an obsessive manner, how long before it becomes a part of our neural make-up?

Working with Sara Coffin on developing video and photographic content for a live contemporary dance performance which focused on the above. This also included development of a system for controlling and effecting the live and pre-recorded videos, stills, and then managing the system during the actual performance.

Also involved in the project are performers Jacinte Armstrong, Julia Carr, Meghan Goodman, Amanda Sheather; composer Phil Thomson, lighting designer (and stage manager) Kim Plough and costume designer Leslie Dyer.

The Escape

Fall 2009, Mixed-reality performance

The Escape is a mixed-reality performance in which the audience is invited to help a character escape its video game prison. Through the completion of competition-based mini-games, facilitated by the narration of a gamer character, the audience can choose to either assist or to hinder the character's attempts to escape the game world, influencing the progress and direction of the performance.

The piece was developed over Fall 2009 as a collaborative work with Laura Lee Coles, Philippa Myler and Ming Sun Ho.

Dropped Signal

Oct. 2009, Dance

Dropped Signal was a dance piece which combined the virtual self and the real by using video clips from Second Life, Dropped Signal explores the empty space of a fluid virtual place.

Working for Sara Coffin, my role was to generate a control system for managing the balloon projections, and then triggering cues during the actual performance.

Winter Music

Apr. 2007, Music

Directed by Michael Bussiere, this rendition of John Cage's Winter Music was done on two pianos, turntable, radio, trombone, cellphone and telematics.