LAMENTATION WORKSHOP
Lamentation Workshop is an interdisciplinary, developmental workshop that unites dancers, dance historians, and technologists. It seeks to deepen audience engagement with historical dance works, focusing on Martha Graham’s iconic 1930 piece Lamentation, filmed in 3D using volumetric capture.
The workshop will focus on the development of an interface that captures audience movements in real-time. This will allow viewers to dance with the archival 3D choreography, manipulating the images with gestures and body movements and revealing the work’s context, innovations, and historical relevance.
This workshop will culminate in an interactive classroom presentation on November 12, 2024, where collaborators will present their work as part of the class Modern & Postmodern Dance & Technology.
WHEN:
November 8-12, 2024
WHERE:
UCLA Department of World Arts And Cultures / Dance (WAC/D)
“The diagonals and tensions formed by the dancer’s body struggling within the material create a moving sculpture, a portrait which presents the very essence of grief. The figure in this dance is neither human nor animal, neither male nor female: it is grief itself.”
— marthagraham.org
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
>>> PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
November 8-9 2024
10am-4pm
Gloria Kaufman Hall, UCLA
Creative development on LAMENTATION, focusing on the project’s interactive components using real-time body tracking.
>>> INTERACTIVE SHOWCASE
November 12, 2024
12pm-2pm
Gloria Kaufman Hall, UCLA
Interactive presentation of workshop creative outputs led by project collaborators Katherine Helen Fisher and Kate Ladenheim.
WORKSHOP COLLABORATORS
Katherine Helen Fisher
Co-Director
Alan Winslow
Co-Director
Xin Ying
Creative Director
Kate Ladenheim
Creative Technologist
LAMENTATION PROJECT CREDITS:
Volumetric capture video capture with DepthKit and Evercoast featuring Martha Graham Dance Company. Dancers filmed in 3D are Lloyd Knight and Xin Ying. Lead Technical Producer at Evercoast: Cory Allen; production by Safety Third. Special thanks to Rob Cristiano of Living Ledgends for on-set QC.
Top Image from Future Stages @ NYU, directed by Katherine Helen Fisher and produced by Caroline Hayden, with Safety Third. Hosted by the Collaborative Arts Department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Photo by Dave Geffen.
Collaborator headshots: Katherine Helen Fisher by Mark Escribano, Alan WInslow coutesy of Winslow, Zin Ying by Christopher Jones, Kate Ladenheim by Chelsea Robin Lee.