Call for creative and energetic dancers
Call for danceroom Spectroscopy workshop participants Sat 8th June, 9am – 6pm Bristol The multi-award winning project danceroom Spectroscopy (dS) has started rehearsing for an Arts Council funded international tour, scheduled between Autumn 2013 and Spring 2014. As part of the rehearsal process we are inviting a range of professional dancers interested in exploring the system to ...
dS at the Big Bang Fair!
We just got back from London, where we installed dS in the 360 degree Igloo projection dome as part of the Big Bang Fair… It was great. Over the four days of the festival, we had on the order of 6000 people experience dS, most of whom were treated to a mini-lecture about molecular ...
Best Digital Innovation Award!
This weekend, during an awards gala held at the Bristol Old Vic, we were very honored to receive an award presented by Bristol’s mayor, George Ferguson, on behalf of the UK Royal Television Society for “Best Digital Innovation of 2012″! This award recognises outstanding innovations in digital content across any platform or combination of platforms, ...
Quantum Collision…
Bristol University, with hard work from Aliya Mughal and Mark Whatmore (YoHo Media), have put together a really beautiful mini-documentary about danceroom Spectroscopy, with loads of interview footage taken from our recent installation at London’s Barbican Arts Centre. A little something for everyone in this. Enjoy…
Listening to Human Energy Flow
Some interesting listening: right click to download/left click to stream It’s a recording of the sound sculptures generated at our recent danceroom Spectroscopy installation at the Barbican. It’s a gentle, ambient sound that ebbs, flows, and washes over you. I’ve been enjoying it. All the sounds were generated in real-time, from the motion of peoples’ ...
Focus Forward Award
We are very excited that a film documenting dS has been shortlisted for the Focus Forward Film Award. You can see the trailer for the film here, and if you like it please vote to give us the chance to win audience choice award. The ten films with the most votes will be honored as Audience Favorites. Finalists for ...
Hidden Fields…
We’re gearing up to perform Hidden Fields as the headline event during Natural Circuits, a free arts festival hosted by the Barbican Arts Centre in London (3-4 Nov 2012), and we’re really excited. The above video is a tasty trailer giving a peak at Hidden Fields. Watch it and you’ll see why we’re so excited. ...
The ¿Qué onda? Moment
“…in the perpetually unfolding present, we’re riding the cusp of an unfolding set of interlaced waves, spanning every lengthscale and timescale imaginable, from atoms to galaxies” read Glowacki’s Hidden Fields article, The ¿Qué onda? Moment
Luminous Beings Are We
For the past few days, rehearsals for Hidden Fields have been in full swing. The end of today’s session was mind-blowingly beautiful… As I watched Emma and Kathleen use their radiant energy fields to gently manipulate the particle chaos, Yoda’s words popped into my head: “…Energy surrounds us. And Binds us. Luminous beings are we, ...
explaining dS to a Nobel Prize winner
Dr. David Glowacki recently arrived back from a wonderful scientific conference in Assisi, Italy… the birthplace of St. Francis. He met Prof John Polanyi, a chemical physicist who won the 1986 Chemistry Nobel Prize. Polanyi was key in formulating models for how chemical phenomena relate to underlying ‘energy landscapes’. In fact, the concept of an ...
