Dancing with cubes

Etienne de Crecy ,the creator (and the executer) of the show founded the perfect combination to make people dance and improve their experience. The combination of music and highly technological visual effects allow the public enter in a new galaxy of sensations.
The central part of the cube which is occupied by Etienne de Crecy and his dj desk has controls to adapt the color,shape and speed of the cube at the desirable rhythm.
Extra part of cube that can carry people can be added ,creating a possibility to implement dancer.
This technology could aloud dancer dance and change the atmosphere and rhythm every time they wanted this will definitely help the dancers to transmit better their message to the public.

The lean dance move

Obviously human body has its own limits, and dancers can't help that. The invention of certain equipment has helped dancers to perform even more incredible dances, until the extent that some have been able to trick gravity laws.

The Lean was orginally seen in the Smooth Criminal music video which was from the movie Moonwalker. (Michael Jackson)

Basically the lean dance move in the video was a special effect. A seemingly impossible distance was achieved without the use of cables. A patent was applied for a hitching device built into the floor of the stage and the performers' shoes. It consists of pegs that rise from the stage at the appropriate moment, and special shoes with ankle supports and cutouts in the heels which can slide over the pegs and be thereby attached to the stage temporarily. The shoes allow the performers to lean without needing to keep their centers of mass directly over their feet. They have a specially designed heel slot which can be detachably engaged with the hitch member by simply sliding the shoe wearer's foot forward, thereby engaging with the hitch member.

Technology improvements on equipment

We are currently living in a world, where each day is getting more and more filled with technology. Everything is getting, on one hand, of course, more complicated, but on the other, of course, is getting only more and more convenient. Technology is everywhere, every sphere of our life can find a technological support and this support is offered by many companies.

Talking about this, I must mention Nike. The company is constantly seeking for new technologies in sports gear and for the ways of applying these technologies into different sports. And dancing is not an exception. More or less 5 years ago Nike has started producing special dance gear line, including the launch of Nike Musique IV Dance Shoe, in order to cover the rising audience of passionate dance lovers. Campaign’s target was to attract as many people to dancing and make them feel, that this is a real sport, equal to Football or Tennis..

There began contracts with singers(Ciara, Beyonce, etc.) and professional dancers, like Sofia Boutella to use the gear in their dancing videos and the whole movement was very popular especially in the US.

"I don't need to fill a stadium
Or cause one to fill up with joy
I don't need to hear 60,000 people chant my name
I'll never have a fan club
Get a signing bonus
Or even sign an autograph
But can you honestly tell me I am not an athlete?"

Those are the words of new Nike spokeswoman Sofia Boutella, who has starred in 2 new commercials for nike, about dancing. They are created for nikewomen.com, and show her using styles of hip hop dance including bboying, and styles of popping.

Virtual Dance

Dance magazine published an article on how Technology is afecting dance until the extent that is replacing the need of the human body.


Imagine waltzing with someone who is 1,000 miles away. Or watching a ballet with no dancers at all, where wisps of light form the illusion of dancers performing. You are not dreaming. At places like Arizona State University (ASU), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), and Texas Christian University (TCU), dancers are using computers and other multimedia technology to do that and more.

"Dance has always existed within the context of society," says John Mitchell, ASU dance department faculty member. "As society changes, it reframes dance. Today, dance is framed by the technology that surrounds us."

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In 1983, Dr. Judith Gray, then assistant professor of dance at UW, organized the first UW Dance and Technology Conference so that dancers throughout the country who were beginning to work with technology could share information. In her book Dance Instruction: Science Applied to the Art of Movement (1989), Gray coined a word to describe one effect of technology: "`Illusionism' ... is defined as realism protracted to a point where the real and the non-real are indistinguishable," she wrote. "Ilusionism will be a movement style that aims to confuse the observer as to whether what is seen is object or artifice." Gray, now on the faculty of Antioch University in Seattle, says, "I believe that dance audiences are ready for such an innovation, including the philosophical discourse and choreographic challenges that accompany such a revolution."

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Telematics, she explains, is a Web cast made by placing a video conference call between two or more dance performances, so that dancers in those locations can react to each other's video projection and, thus, dance together. The performance is viewed by audiences at all locations, but each gets a different experience and perspective. At one location, it may appear that the real and projected dancers are moving together, while at another, they may be dancing in canon because of lag time, the delay inherent in current video-conferencing technology.

Dr. Keitha Donnelly Manning, from the department of ballet and modern dance at TCU, says software tools, such as Life Forms, can help economically by allowing a choreographer to create and edit movement sequences on a computer prior to assembling a group of dancers. "Studio time is limited and expensive. The more you can do on the computer beforehand, the better," she says. At the same time she emphasizes that she doesn't believe the computer replaces the physicality of dance. The multimedia classroom that Manning helped design at TCU includes a dance floor as well as fifteen computers, so that choreographers can easily go back and forth between developing movement in their bodies and on the screen.

Computer technology can save choreographers time and money and help dancers compete for jobs and funding. But when does technology support the art and when does it detract from it?

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Wolfram (2003)" Virtual dance: technology can help create and promote dance, but it doesn't replace the physical body. Or does it?" in Dance Magazine

This is not the whole article as it was very long to post it here, but here there are the parts that I found most interesting.


Here's the link to read the whole article http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_2_77/ai_97174131/pg_2/?tag=content;col1