This winter, Propel-her choreographers will embark on a new exploration in choreographic process, extending our use of the collaborative model into the artistic realm. Propel-her members will work in tandem to create two new works, to be debuted in May 2009. One of these works will be a long-distance collaboration with Propel-her choreographer Betsy Miller, who is currently in the graduate program at Ohio State University. Here’s what Betsy has to say about the potential for long-distance collaborations:
“One of the great things about making work now is the plethora of technology available to us. Technological innovation allows not only for more possibility in mixed-media presentation, (i.e. video projection during a live dance piece) but also helps artists who may be separated geographically come together in a creative medium. Possibilities exist for video-conferencing between artists, ‘virtual rehearsals,’ with a choreographer in one place intereacting with dancers in another location, and even the real-time presentation of an off-site performance through streaming video. Basically, the limits of our imaginations our the only limits.”
Check back frequently to see where collaboration and technology intersect in the making of our new works.
Photos: Amelia Montgomery
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collaborating from a distance and incorporating technology to bring distanced artists together in a virtual space is really a natural extension of the creative process in the modern world……its technological metaphor for what was already virtual in its innate abstractness…ongoing nature, and limitlessness in terms of where inspiration comes from, when, and how. I’m very curious to see how this manifests in The Balancing Act