Few dance forms that keeps you stuck till end are result of digital world. Computers, cameras, light tricks and creative cinematography create an experience that goes beyond the stage can provide.
Check out few tricks that has taken dance to a new level
Hakanai
It is a performance where audiences feel as if they are in dream as they watch a dancer move within a cube which is projected by high definition cameras. The setup represents a room where a dancer crosses the boundary between a real word and virtual world.
Liliput dance
If you are known to ‘Gulliver travels’, then think how you have been tricked of huge and infinitesimal man. Animating a dance sequence is really difficult, then how is it done!
Wilkie Branson, an interdisciplinary dance artist had come up with an idea for such a dance sequence where he had created over 4000 hand cut characters to make look like human dancing among cups and on papers.
Light Spin motion
With the help of 24 DSLR cameras, this contemporary dance form becomes an incredible show. The dance is accomplished in dark with light paints, stop-motion and bullet-time techniques. The dancer has to change the pose every 2 seconds before freezing.
Dueto
This dance form combines technology with ballet dance. Camera tricks, creative editing along with good choreography creates a mind-blowing result.
Digital rain dance
Here projection mapping techniques are used to transform the stage into a living canvas for 11 dancers who face the digital rain, play with computer-generated bubbles and see the floor below them collapsing
Hypnotic dance
The end product captured by camera is really an eye captivating image where an artist translates her dancing moves onto paper.
