Live Design: In Sleeping Beauty Dreams, angels and demons descend on stage for a raw, sophisticated exploration of the dreams and nightmares from the Princess' century of sleep. The contemporary dance and art performance by world-renowned prima ballerinas features an original score by Thijs de Vlieger and visual design by Tobias Gremmler.
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Media is such a foreign world to me. It can be used to create stunning works of art. I had never had experience with it until Tiger at the Gates. To be fair I still don’t feel like I understand much of it. But I do know it entails a massive amount of work. Back to this article, I wish I could see more how the actors are interacting with this production’s media design. The visuals in this slide show are mesmerizing. I can’t help to think about the back end labor it has taken to get them up and going! The development of content alone was probably its own budget line. Then followed by the reality of loading, how are they getting these projectors on the theatre? How did they chose to map things. What are their projecting surfaces? I really with this article went in more depth.
This is so cool! This imagery is so powerful, and watching the textures and movement of the costumes and interactions with the media is incredible. Once of the intentional collaborations I wish I saw more is between media and costumes. I feel like there is so much that can be captured in parallels and juxtapositions of movement, texture, finish, etc. that a lighting, sound, and scenery can’t reach in the same ways. I would love to hear how the collaboration in the rehearsal room between Thijs de Vlieger, Tobias Gremmler, and the dancers. Bringing the audience through such an emotional and abstract depiction of Sleeping Beauty, a very familiar story. The media introduces a dimension in which they can explore the reality of the Princess’ sleep. I would be really interested to hear more about the tech process and how they managed navigating such delicate and new territory. Additionally, how have they prepared the space to accept the projections so successfully? Seeing as there is no physical scenery, I would love to hear about how they approached creating a media oriented space.
This is a very interesting, new way to look at this well-known fairy tale. I have never really thought about what Aurora would have dreamed about in all those years of sleep, and I can understand how this could become a very good prompt for a series of dances. It is open ended and allows for an incredibly surrealist approach – a great starting point for movement pieces and media! The dream world is a perfect place to incorporate media because of the imaginative and surrealist possibilities given with the topic. The small clip and the slideshow do reveal spectacular visuals and dance, but similar to Char, I would have loved to read more about how the media and the dancers interact. The “real-time digital avatar technology” sounds really interesting and I wonder if it is used to affect the movement of media on the screen or the speed of cues or what that really even means in the context of this performance.
Some of these images seemed more like an individual art installation than part of a performance piece, which might just be a testament to the skill of the photographer, but this media design simply looks incredible. There is such an art in creating the psychedelic element of a dreamscape into the real world, but this production definitely seems to achieve this effect. I am especially impressed by the ways in which they deconstruct the idea of the human body in the dancers, projections, and how they play off of each other. It is so exciting to be involved in the world of theater at this time because designers are still in the process of pushing and learning the limits of projection digital media design. This art form opens up so many new avenues for other forms of design, such as how the costumes and projections play off of each other in these images. There is so much latent potential in this technology that I am excited to watch the progression of.
This is such an interesting take on the story of Sleeping Beauty. I've never thought about what Aurora might have dreamt of while she was asleep, and I think that this dance performance captures what that might've been beautifully. Each of the photos in the slideshow are absolutely beautiful. The media design is incredible. I would love to see this performance live. I love the way the dancers interact with the media and how seamless the dancers and the media look together. I'm also impressed with how the photographer captured the beauty they did to include it in the article's slide show.
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