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LIVE

LIVE
, the culminating performance of our collaborative project Global Corporeality: Collaborative Choreography in Digital Space.  Utilizing readily available consumer technology, students from the Department of Contemporary Dance at the Latvian Academy of Culture and students from the dance program of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Idaho State University worked in real time in digital space to devise this choreographic work. Directed by Joséphine A. Garibaldi while on Fulbright in Latvia, LIVE includes original movement, sound and text created collaboratively by the Latvian and American cast.

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LIVE 2014 - (Laptop cameras)
The videos below were recorded through Google Hangouts on Air and document the entire evening: an introduction (run time 15:00),
the live performance (run time 40:00), and the following Q & A session (run time 45:00). We have also included LIVE documented by an external camera in the Riga Ludzas studio.


The video to the left is a copy of the sound score and is only meant to be listened to
(run time 34:37).


Global Corporeality: Collaborative Choreography in Digital Space

3 February 2014:1 Introduction
3 February 2014:2 Brainstorming
10 February 2014:
Exploring the Medium
17 Feb 2014:
Developing Source Material
24 Feb 2014: Corpo-Reality
3 March: Rhythm Verses
10 March 2014: Assembling Phrasework
17 March 2014: Phrasework with Score

Part of my residency while on Fulbright in Riga, Latvia includes the interactive project
Global Corporeality: Collaborative Choreography in Digital Space. Utilizing readily available consumer technology, I will be guiding students from the Department of Contemporary Dance at the Latvian Academy of Culture and students from the dance program of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Idaho State University to interactively devise a culminating choreographic work that will performed live on air May 12, 2014.
[Please note: The culminating work will now be performed April 7, 2014.]

Mondays 8:30 am - 10:30 am Mountain Time-USA/17:30-19:30 Eastern European Time-Riga, Latvia we meet online to work. Utilizing one laptop on either end, each plugged into an external camcorder to serve as a webcam for input and a projector to serve as output, we are facilitating the exchange through Google Hangouts (no persons involved in this project are in any way associated with or work for Google).
The intent of this project is simply, process, and to maximize the potential of available consumer technologies to make meaningful work (much like PixelVision, the toy BW video camera by FisherPrice back in the 80's).

Even more important to this project is the exploration of collaborative practice: 1 + 1 = 3; reciprocity: giving and receiving, participation and interaction. It is my hope that each of us who have participated - whether through creation, sharing or even just following - learn something through this experience, forever changed toward new understanding and broadening of perspective.


If you would like to follow the project, please send me an email to join our private Google+ Community: Collaborative Choreography in Digital Space.
Please note: you will need a Google+ Profile in order to join.


Latvian Academy of Culture
Rûta
Alise
Ivars
Rûdis
Ana
Maija
Agate B.
Janis
Girts
Olga
Anastasija
Anne-Birte
Anete
Eva
Taisija
Martins
Sandra
Agate C.
Karina
Ramona

Idaho State University

Bridget
Julie
Joséphine
Danielle
Hannah
Paul

Sense of Place pics
Sample student work generated during this project. Below are Rhythm Verses created by "loosely" following the structure of the Latvian Daina:
Agate Bankava's Rhythm Verse
Bridget Close's Rhythm Verse
Eva Kronberga's Rhythm Verse
Rudolfs Gedins' Rhythm Verse
Anya's Rhythm Verse
Anastasija's Rhythm Verse
Taisia Frolova's Rhythm Verse
31 March: Final Rehearsal
Dancing for Jean Arlene

This creative collaboration is made possible by the generous support of the Fulbright Foundation, the Institute of International Education, the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, the Latvian Academy of Culture, and Idaho State University's College of Arts and Letters, School of Performing Arts, Oboler Library, Instructional Technology and International Programs.

Special thanks to Maria Fletcher, Kandi Turley-Ames, Laura Woodworth-Nye, Thom Hasenpflug, Olga Zitluhina, Ramona Galkina, Krzyzstof Szyrszen, Ingrida Bodniece, Ingrida Grauze, Ryan Faulkner, Kristi Austin, Kent Kearns, Lisa Kidder, Mark Norviel and Uldis.

The Process
For our first session, after fumbling around with our consumer grade equipment and WiFi connectivity, and after preliminary introductions, we discussed the collaborative process and devising methodology. Invitations were accepted to create something together in an online environment. We were then ready to begin as everyone had made the decision to create a work together. Questions emerged:
  • What does it mean to create a work together?
  • How will collaboration work in an online environment using consumer grade technology?
  • How will we bridge corporeality in digital space?
  • Can we make meaningful embodied work together in an online environment when we are on different continents at different times from different countries with different life experiences?
  • Will we be able to have deep communication and make meaningful connections?

In order for us to function within an online environment, I set up a Google+ environment which includes our Community "Collaborative Choreography in Digital Space", Google Drive, Google Groups, and downloaded the Google+ Hangout app so that we may conduct our interactive sessions live online by streaming through Hangouts.
After introducing the Google+ environment, I suggested the theme of Communication.

To flesh out the theme, we began with a brainstorming session, free associating the concept/phenomena of Communication. In brainstorming sessions, all words/phrases are valid; nothing is edited. After the initial flurry died down and we were satisfied with our list, I asked the participants to choose 4 significant words each (significant words are words that are of significance to the individual participant). From these chosen 4 words, we distilled the list to include only the significant words chosen by each participant.  From the new list, I then asked the participants to choose 4 more 4 a total of 8 words.


From this list, we generated source material (for a detailed description, you may view the course website). From their 8 words, I asked students to:
1) Create a Rhythm Verse with 4 of their words loosely following the structure of a Latvian Daina;
2) With the other 4 words, I ask students to freely write about what is significant about the word.

And to provide context, I asked students to:
1) Provide one photo that is evocative of Your Sense of Place.

From the significant words and the Sense of Place pics, devising prompts were provided to generate movement material. I then asked the students to audio and/or video record vocalization of their Rhythm Verses.
During our Feb. 17 session, each participant shared their choreography with each other. During our Feb. 24 session, participants collaborated in developing movement material together in both countries with two simultaneous Hangouts happening on either end.


Text of Daina Rhythm Verses
March 3 & 10: We are now in the process of assembling movement material to create sections highlighting each participant's individual choreography following their Daina verses (solo) and each participants' collaborative choreography accompanying the soloist (chorus). From this, I will decide on program order and then assemble an overall sound score based upon audio & video Rhythm verses the participants have submitted.

March 17:
Drawing upon the Daina Rhythm Verses created by the cast, I mastered a score. After our first run with the score, I need to tweak some spots, but overall, the piece works quite well.

March 31:
The program is set, final music/sound score almost complete and during our last rehearsal we were able to run twice. We are ready for our informal performance on Monday 7 April 2014 18:00 - 19:00 Latvian Academy of Culture Ludzas iela/9:00 - 10:00 am Idaho State University, Red Hill dance studio 101.


Please note: This site is not an official Fulbright Program or Idaho State University site. The views expressed here are entirely those of its author, Joséphine A. Garibaldi and do not represent the views of the Fulbright Program, the U.S. Department of State,
Idaho State University or any of their partner organizations.
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