[Usittne] You are invited...

[Carla D. Richters]

New England Members...
I am writing to offer an invitation to a dance project we
are developing at Dartmouth.

The piece is titled "Viscera: Echos of War" and it is a
collaboration between the arts and sciences . Its
multi-media with some wicked cool gear in the kit.   (please
see list of gear below)

The schedule for "Viscera: Echos of War" is:

May 20th     Invited final dress. 8 pm
May 21,22,23 Show dates. 8 pm  and a 2 pm matinee on Sunday.

There is a Q and A session after each performance.

The collaborative process on this production has been a new
experience for us.  The design element of projections was
conceived in conjunction with the choreographic and
narrative elements of the show.    Projections will include
the original animation of a skeleton, as well as the
animation of text created by faculty and students in
computer science. Other video projections are being designed
by faculty and  students in theater and film.
We are using three projectors, and a live camera feed, as
well as moving lights.  Two projectors will be on the
balcony rail, and one is on an electric pointing straight down.

There are various projection surfaces including a Gerrriets
Silver bobbinet scrim, a sharkstooth black scrim, aluminum
window screening, rolls of paper and dancers in white-washed
Meharon makeup.

The kit includes:

Canon Video Camera (Over Stage)
Panasonic PT-D7700u projector
Christie HD10K-M projector
High End DL3 Digital Light
iMac running QLab
MacPro running Isadora
Macbook for network projector control
Macbook Pro for distribution of video data (during tech only)
EOS lighting console for lights, the DL 3 and video control
via MIDI to all
computers.
Various video cable extenders
Ethernet network for production and animation staff while in
the theater in
addition to another network controlling projectors and
passing data to the
DL3 Online data storage

And then there are:
18 wireless mic's,
as well as a partridge in a pear tree.   (Only stands to
reason right?)

The people behind all this are:

Conceived and Directed by Ford Evans and Peter Hackett
Animation Director, Lorie Loeb
Video Design, Dan Kotlowitz and Stephen Jangro '11
Lighting Design, Dan Kotlowitz
Costume Coordinators, Laurie Churba Kohn and Carla D. Richters
Modeling and Animation of the Skeleton, Brenton Rayner '10
Text Animations, Erin Michet '13
Sound Design, Jocelyn Duford '11
Technical Director/Sound Advisor, Scott Silver
Stage Management, Kathleen Cunneen

A multi-media collaboration with Faculty and Students from
Computer Science and the Department of Theater

Offical blurb can be found:
http://hop.dartmouth.edu/2009-10/100521-dartmouthdance.html

If you've wanted to see what happens when someone takes all
  this stuff out for  a spin, please try and make it up to
the woods for an evening.    I'm pretty
proud of the work so far and we are still a month out from
tech.  (Okay,  3
weeks.  But who's counting?)

Thanks for the time.   Hoping to see some of you.
IF you let me know you are going to be here we can make sure
you get the cooks tour.

Carla D Richters
Costume Shop Manager
carla.d.richters at dartmouth.edu