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Category: Experiences

Virtual Reality Moving – VRUI-VIVE

July 3, 2019July 8, 2019 Joe

Here’s a tiny hint of the VR: Oliver’s system has a nice trick where you also project the VIVE world onto a screen (or wall) so that from one perspective you see the person in the world (yet in front Read More …

Experiences, Happenings, PlatformsVR

Group Juggling

May 1, 2019May 20, 2019 Joe

Tom Burmester offered “group juggling” that he has used for years to create group togetherness among undergrads in theater settings (see video above), and because the intensity of passing many balls around between people at the same seems to make Read More …

Experiences3+people, theatre, UCDavis

Scores for Movement

April 21, 2019May 20, 2019 Joe

An example of a GIG developed by ICI. Joe used it as part of a workshop at “Embodied Creativity and Interdisciplinary Collaboration” at Aarhus University in April 2018.

Experiences3+people, Aarhus, ICI

String-Kite-Becoming

April 21, 2019May 20, 2019 Joe

Kevin O’Connor offered string-kite-becoming, my name for the score (light instructions) in which two people hold ends of a short string and one “flies” the other like a kite. Then exchanging roles. This also seems to quite quickly create a Read More …

ExperiencesUCDavis

Bunraku Puppeting

April 21, 2019May 20, 2019 Joe

Mike Chin offered Bunraku puppeting as a group improvisational possibility. This involves building on the Japanese Bunraku theatre tradition in which three people manipulate one puppet together, with group breathing practices and shared projected experience of the puppet. There seems Read More …

Experiences3+people, UCDavis

GIGs: Group Improvisation Games

April 21, 2019May 20, 2019 Joe

GIGs are Group Improvisation Games principles for making experiments differently. Developed between Brain2Brain Project (Aalto U, Helisinki) and the Joint Improvisation Lab (ICI, Paris). Defined in the paper: “Coordinated Interpersonal Behaviour in Collective Dance Improvisation: The Aesthetics of Kinaesthetic Togetherness“ Read More …

Experiences, Principles

Figuring out what we mean by improvising together and what might be interesting to measure in it and why

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