iWeave - Interactive digital archive costumes
- When?
- Monday 11 June 2012, 1730 to 1900
- Where?
- Ivy Arts Centre Studio 2
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Admission price:
- Free
iWEAVE explores the transformation of a dancer's historical costume into a digital wearable item using cutting edge interactive digital technology
Trained dancers have been filmed in the CVSSP 3D studio wearing historical garments from the Madge Atkinson Natural Movement collection, housed at the NRCD in Surrey. The digitalisation of the costumes and reconstructed dances has enabled us to bring back to life a key choreographic movement in early 20th century British dance using interactive digital technology. For this purpose, rendering of 3D animated models of these costumes and reconstructed dance sequences has been combined with live motion technology using Kinect cameras, to enable users to stand in front of a large TV screen and 'virtually try on' these fragile items without danger of degradation.
The event features a documentary by Sebastian Melo, work-in-progress presentation of iWeave technology by John Collomosse and Rachel Fensham, and performances of two re-constructed dances using the original costumes from Madge Atkinson’s Fingal’s Cave (c.1925) and Danse sacre et Profane (c. 1927).
