Photo and Video Workshopping and Exploration

Photo and Video Workshopping and Exploration

The Small Stage team spent the months of May and June experimenting technological approaches to shoot dance phrases of 7 and 30 seconds each. During the shooting process the team realized that the best set up was as follows:

This set up consists of three white dance floors taped with transparent tape, three white walls, two barn door lights, two umbrella lights, three foot lights, and one speaker. In addition, we were using two cameras: a Nikon D90 and a Canon EOS Rebel SL2. Creative producer, Julie-anne Saroyan, decided to use white walls and a white dance floor because it also afforded more editing opportunities.

In order to get this result, white tyvek was used as the "walls and ceiling" of the box, and four white dance floors were laid out. Comparing it with the previous installation, this one gave the impression of an audience being inside of a box; being able to separate the audience from the external world to experience the dance, the music, the lights and the projections as a whole experience. The installation included 15 chairs distributed in a half circle, according to audience members. The experience changes depending on where the audience member sits allowing the experience to be seen from different angles of the projections.

After six weeks of staging different ideas the team decided to put everything together in a Jukebox installation. This had several functions; to create an environment that gave the audience the impression that they were in a white box; to separate the installation from other installations visually and sonically; and to create a captive audience we could interact with, collect data from and respond to.