Title: ANDANTE SPIANATO
Year: 2014
Duration: 2'45"
Type: Video DANCE , Processing 2.2.1 + Kinect
Site: http://santi.tv/andante
Vimeo: vimeo.com/108971601

ANDANTE SPIANATO PRINTS

Choreography: Susannah LeMarquand, Assistant Professor of Dance, Univ. of Tampa
Dancer: Angela Olea
Pianist: Grigorios Zamparas, Associate Professor of Music, Univ. of Tampa
Kinect, Programming and Editing: Santiago Echeverry, Associate Professor of Digital Art, Univ. of Tampa

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ANDANTE SPIANATO is an experimental video dance captured with the Kinect sensor, that studies the nature of classical ballet gestures in decomposed, animated 3D pixels and lines. The editing and the visuals are undoubtedly inspired by the XIX century paintings of ballet dancers by Edgar Degas; by the short Depuis le Jour by Derek Jarman, made for the movie Aria in 1987; and by Pas de Deux, a 1968 experimental dance film by Norman McLaren.

Susannah LeMarquand, Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Tampa, created this short piece working with dancer Angela Olea. Frédéric Chopin's composition whose title means "Flowing Smoothly" in Italian, is performed by internationally acclaimed pianist Grigorios Zamparas, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Tampa, and was recorded live during one of his guest recitals at the University of Indianapolis in 2009. The Kinect camera processing, the programming and the editing was done by Santiago Echeverry, Associate Professor of Digital Arts at the University of Tampa.

To accompany this video piece, I created a series of PRINTS manipulating the frames captured for the video, in order to explore the nature of color and movement when time is sampled in one frame, reminiscent of Étienne-Jules Marey's work.