Sebastian's Corner

ADP performs in London

2009-03-01T06:39:00.000-08:00

ADP will be performing on April 26 at the Cloud Dance Festival.

Location:
Jackson's Lane Theatre in Highgate, London

Hope to see you there!

2009-02-09T13:39:00.000-08:00

Last Friday, February 6th, ADP had the pleasure of performing for the second year in a row at the Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival. It was the premiere performance of Red Bites for a Rainy Day--our first foray into the world of interactive projections.

Yes, we admit, it was almost insane to travel from New York and London to perform for one night at a relatively small local festival in Phoenix, Arizona. But boy was it worth it! We got a whole week's worth of time, space, and technical resources to finish what we'd been gradually piecing together for the past 4 months or so. Quite the royal treatment!

It was a crazy week--we blew up about 400 white balloons in order to make a kind of textured projection screen out of them. It could have been disasterous--in fact, it almost WAS disasterous. It's incredible how dry and peeled your fingers can get after two days of tying latex knots! But we made it work. It was a good thing too--because it is highly unlikely that we will ever be able to do this again! After four days in the theatre blowing, popping, tying, and lugging balloons 15 at a time in a little wagon and shopping cart (quite funny, really!), we ended up with something like this:

and this...

Red Bites for a Rainy Day

2008-12-17T17:04:00.000-08:00

ADP is currently working on a piece which uses colour tracking to generate real-time digital paintings. Essentially, anything red becomes a kind of paintbrush. These “paintings” will be projected on some sort of surface during the performance and occasionally interrupted by short interludes of pre-recorded film. See video samples below...it's kind of fun to try to watch them simultaneously.

In the Beginning...

2008-04-06T10:01:00.000-07:00

Here at Sebastian's Corner I'm going to try to write somewhat intelligently about that which interests me: dance, music, interactivity, perception, aesthetics, and other whimsical subjects. Obviously this first post is about nothing at all, as all I'd like to do is see how everything is working, but with time I hope to have more content. Thank you, all of you, and for now, goodbye!