Distortion of Beauty
Choreography: Siân Hopkins & DancersRehearsal Director: Blodwyn JenkinsDancers: Georgina Barnard, Oné Hart, Olivia LitenstoneMusic: Rise Up O Flame - Kiki Rockwell // Janitor of Lunacy - Soap&Skin // Sonder III (Safari Riot Remix) - Sarah Belle Reid, Safari Riot // Mercy - Max Richter, Hilary Hahn, Cory Smythe // Soon This Space Will Be Too Small - Lhasa De Sela Stage design & Lighting: Mikkel Svak Length: 16 mins
Photography: Blodwyn Jenkins'If there is love, there is truth, there is beauty' ~ Krishnamurti... a collective endeavour exploring beauty and the struggle of breaking away from standards and expectations. Finding your own place within what is perceived around us, and knowing and accepting when you have outgrown limiting beliefs and actions.'Soon this space will be too small, and I'll go outside...and I'll say the three words, that will save us all' ~ Lhasa De Sela
CHOREOGRAPHERSiân Hopkins, Dance Lecturer at Middlesex University, is a performer, creator and teacher. She was principal artist and rehearsal director for Moving Visions Dance Theatre (2006-2018), and has danced with Inland Pacific Ballet in California, Peter McCoy Dance Company in Munich and various other projects and independent artists near and far. Siân has taught at dance institutions around the UK as well as in Japan, SIngapore, Vietnam and Canada. Choreographic commissions include site-specific and cathedral-based projects, Cantata Dramatica's choral dramatisations and collaborative screendance and theatre productions.Movement dependant lighting
– live body mapping using the Hippotizer
The Hippotizer by company Green Hippo is a media server, often used for playback and generation of video content for large projections and LED walls on stage; but it can do a lot more than simply play back video content on screens. For this production I am using its ‘pixel mapping’ function – a method whereby video content can be ‘shown’ on regular stage lights by ‘mapping’ each light to one or more pixels within the video image.For 'Distortion of Beauty' I am using a live feed from a camera placed in the auditorium as my video content, creating a live video image of the dancers as they move around the stage. By creating a pixel map that consists of the 24 lanterns used to sidelight the stage, a very low resolution ‘screen’ of 3 x 24 pixels is created; each pixel made up by one sidelight. As the live image of the dancers overlap with a pixel mapped to one of the sidelights, that light in turn will output the colour and brightness matching the video image of the dancers’ costume or body at that point.The majority of the lighting used in the first and last sections of 'Distortion of Beauty' is controlled this way, with the brightness and colour of the sidelight a direct result of the positions of the dancers and the colours of their costumes. When a dancer moves fast across the stage, the sidelight will change in brightness and colour to mirror that movement.- Mikkel Svak (Lighting Designer)CAST
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Georgina Barnard
year 3
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Oné Hart
year 3
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Olivia Litenstone
year 3
