Hackaday: When we think of wearable technologies, ballet shoes aren’t the first devices that come to mind. In fact, the E-Traces pointé shoes by [Lesia Trubat] may be the first ever “connected ballet shoe.” This project captures the movement and pressure of the dancer’s feet and provides this data to a phone over Bluetooth.
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I've only been in one point class in my life and may I say it takes a lot of skill to dance in point shoes. Moving in these shoes was probably one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. However, I admire all of the dancers who move around in these point shoes as a career. Furthermore, I love that they've added a tracker to these shoes. This would allow a lot of opportunity to combined technology and dancing as one. Tracking the movements of the dancer could create some beautiful art pieces. Whether it is a brush that follows each fluid movement or a static image that pops up when the foot hits the stage floor. I feel the possibility are endless and this would be cool for the ballet dancer to see what they've created and how they may improve. I could definitely see these pieces of technology being used in an educational environment in the near future.
I think this could be really incredible for a whole slew of reasons. Yes, these are a really awesome idea, but really, this would be great as a teaching tool. It could be useful to be able to show people exactly how a movement is being done. Imagine if you could dance on an LED floor and look down to follow the steps around. Think of how it could improve rehearsals just to get the basics down and then once you've learned those, add the finesse. This could be incredible. I have so many questions! Like, could you make a whole series of art pieces just out of the whole of what the dances look like from the patterns laid out on the floor? Talk about some incredible digital art opportunities.
Holy crap, this is amazing! If it does what I think it does, it could do so much to revolutionize how dancers view their dancing. If they can track the dancers feet, the app can visualize the movements of the dancer. Dancers can work and choreograph without a mirror or another person to view them dance or film. As a dancer, this could be really amazing for choreography and maybe even remote dance lessons.
From a theater perspective, this could definitely impact media designs for dance performances. Data tracking of dancers' feet could allow the spot light to always be on them, or in a more complicated sense, allow for intricate media designs that reflect the actions of the dancers in real time. I've seen a few videos done of a performance where an infrared camera was used to track the dancer and map the media to her in real time. Tracking their feet could make this new style of lighting and media design so much more complex and intricate. Although it may only be used for artistic dance pieces, it could have some future use in traditional theater and dance in the future.
This is a really cool concept. It is super simple, and now that someone has thought of it, it feels obvious, but I know it took a lot of creativity to think of it in the first place. I can see a lot of really cools ways this could be used. First, there is the obvious, it could be really helpful for dancers who are learning. From a medical perspective, it could also be used to study what kind of force ballet dancers exert on their feet and legs, since a lot of ballet dancer end up doing longer term damage, and potentially dancers could learn ways to do the same choreography while putting less force on their legs. The visuals created from this would also be really cool, not only as art pieces on their own, but they could also be used for very interesting media during ballet performances. I could definitely see this being used for projections on the floor, and the ballet dancer’s feet interacting with the floor projections, which would respond based both on location and force. Overall, this is a neat piece of technology that could be used for a lot of things.
This is so exciting for media design! I’m not quite sure why it is running on an iPhone app, but if we could implement the same technology into a board we could create some beautiful designs. I know this type of live tracking technology already exists, but this is wearable, and so tracked on a phone, so I feel that it has to be a lot less expensive than current practices. Also this can measure the pressure, which I haven’t really seen live, but I see the beautiful potential in being able to accurately represent the speed and pressure of a dancer’s movement. It could be essentially seamless, the distance between performer and technology, and as a live art form every chance we get to bridge that gap must be seized. This could also be visualized in the form of lighting really well, but I feel that the speed and pressure would be best translated to the audience through media.
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