Video Trailer
Tesseract is the result of a multi-year collaboration between choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, Princeton Class of 2006, and pioneering filmmaker and video artist Charles Atlas. Mitchell, Reiner, and Atlas are Merce Cunningham Dance Company alumni.
The full project is an evening-length presentation in two parts: a 3D dance film featuring seven dancers and a live proscenium performance with several dancers. The film offers speculative worlds and alternate possibilities in bold visual environments. The performance includes live-video capture with multiple cameras, mixed live by Atlas and projected into the stage space. Images obscure and reveal moving bodies behind a translucent scrim, magnified and refracted by Atlas. Through collective action the project forges a link between human ritual conjuring and new technological magic, between the past and the future.
Photo credit: Mick Bello
The 3D film will be screened at this event on November 9 with Charles Atlas in attendance. At the Princeton Dance Festival on November 20-22, audiences can view excerpts of the live dance performance.
The 3D dance film—Atlas’ first “dance video” in over a decade—features a series of hybrid and imagined worlds. Composed of six distinct visual environments, the work exists inside speculative realities.
Credits
The 3D film was commissioned and produced by EMPAC/Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and co-commissioned by Triangle France.
Tesseract was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support from the New York University Dean's Grant administered by the Tisch School of the Arts. Tesseract was developed, in part, through residencies at EMPAC/Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The Watermill Center, and the Walker Art Center.
Admission
The screening event is free and open to the public; no tickets or registration required.
Directions
Get directions to the James Stewart Film Theater, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau St. in Princeton, NJ.
Accessibility
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