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This is more about using dance instead of technology to teach a concept. Less about integration but I thought it was pretty awesome.

What leaped to mind was choreographed speech...I enjoyed the dancing, but found it also distracting...still an interesting concept.

The end is kind of hilarious. When he proposes that with all the cuts in ed funding for the arts that you will be able to get dancers super cheap thereby making them a cost effective replacement. :). Some people have loved the dancing and others not so much. I am a dancer and I connected immediately. I thought it was hilarious but it was presented as a way to teach concepts to children and I think the context of live movement is so incredibly effective. I certainly understand a super fluid now. I can only imagine if I had actually danced the concept.

A look at how contemporary dance is using technology to support its vision. By Elizabeth Ashley.

This is a link to a scholarly paper about the dance.draw program from UNC Charlotte. This work is supported by an NSF CreativeIT Award#IIS-0855882 grant. The program is a marriage of technology and dance. The dancers are tracked by cameras or gyro devices that they carry on their person. The software then uses the dancers information to change display information behind the stage and or modify audible information. http://dancedraw.uncc.edu/DanceDraw/Dance.Draw.html

This is really intriguing. I have longed to do something like this with music, translating scores into visual images, so that you see patterns, colors and textures. I haven't read the paper yet, but I will. Also, I find it interesting that this is happening at UNCC. I have a house in Charlotte. I am only temporally in Memphis. Over the years I have done a lot of work with UNCC, and I know several people in the dance department, but I had not heard about this project.

Yet another dance company using technology to liven up the world of live performance.

Article and three minute video. "Pixel" is the latest from Adrien M / Claire B, a French dance company specializing in cutting-edge physical-digital performance.

Check out the video of the motion capture app. Pretty cool way to take live movement and transform it to the digital medium.

Thomas Cott is the director of marketing for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. "You've Cott Mail" is a fabulous weekday email for arts enthusiasts, managers, administrators, or artists. He picks a different topic everyday and scours the web for interesting/good/useful blogs, articles, etc, compiles them into one email with several links, and delivers it to your inbox. I can't recommend "You've Cott Mail" enough.

I thought this was an interesting intersection between a classic art form and digital technology. The article was written prior to completion but I love the concept of adding a new dimension to the live performance.

I love the integration of technology with theater and dance. Liz Lerman in her Genome Project for Dance Exchange integrated dancers with projected images...it was very effective.

I do too. The interaction between the live and the pre-determined is very interesting to me. It also creates an interesting depth to the performance space.

Explores the use of technology in several dance pieces by different companies.

A performance inspired by Rumi's mystic poetry and Sufi whirling. The question asked by the creator was how can 'new media technologies … be used to augment the experience of watching performative art."

Students from music, art, engineering and dance make up the ensemble. The director is a professor in the school of music and a composer. They collaborate on new works in an innovative manner and on works that have been traditionally overlooked. I really like the exploratory nature of this group.

This site allows you to find specific performance locations and times of ballet/opera in HD at the cinema. This is one of the best examples of Ballet meeting Technology and using it well.

This site shows how ballet and opera meets technology in its presentation of the art in HD in cinematic form. SpectiCast is a private digital broadcast company focused on distributing unique content for which there is underserved demand. SpectiCast broadcasts live cultural and performing arts and entertainment events never before available to Multi-Viewer Venues TM, including assisted living facilities, independent care facilities, and continuing care retirement communities, for use in their community entertainment spaces.

A new ballet uses video live-stream technology to get two different ballet schools, with students from 18 different ballet schools, in two different parts of the world to create a joint performance at the same time. This is a pretty great experiment and experience for the students. I would say it's a rather unique experience. But maybe it will become the norm?

This is a daily digest I receive. Thomas Cott finds the best and most pertinent things in aggregate and summarizes them in a daily email. Mostly pertains to Performing Arts, ticketing, development, audience building, etc. But, there is excellent info in his daily emails that I often share with my staff at work. Great for new ideas and generating new conversations!

Frank is a performance artist, composer, humorist, musician who has compiled a website that is filled with an amazing assortment of how tos such as some tongue in cheek (or not) emotions for actors or how to dance properly, to poems where people can collaboratively contribute illustrations or prose, or "angrigami" where one can create beautiful origami out of a sheet of hateful and angry words and so much more. Inspiring, creative, funny. For an introduction to Ze Frank, here is a TED talk with him:http://www.zefrank.com/ted/2010.html

I love this! Canada, especially Quebec, seem so much more advanced aesthetically than us!

I know! :) This company has been around for a while too. I am always mentioning them but no one seems to have heard of them. I think the interaction with the 3-d projection is so amazing.

Ridiculously good collection/archive/resource for the best in avant-garde artworks.