Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Dance

Dancing with UAS

• ElevenPlay, Japan:
  • Publicity: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/dancing-with-drones-how-machines-may-play-a-part-in-the-future-of-art
  • “elevenplay dance performance with drones at Spiral Hall”, 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQLORg5COiU
  • “24 drones (ELEVENPLAY + Rhizomatiks Research)”, 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYWvKudIIJ8
  • “Drone x spotlight”, 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2TneyE41Q
  • “Elevenplay - Dance Act with Drones and Lights | Auditions Week 2 | America's Got Talent 2016 Full”, June 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33Lu_y3dMQ
• Dancing with Drones, Zagar, Hungary Budapest. Collaboration between “London-based choreographer Nina Kov, and COLLMOT Robotic Research Group, belonging to the Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös University (Budapest).”
  • http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/collmot-robotics-drone-dance
  • https://youtu.be/IJYRbKSha_g
• Nosag Thing and Danito Masanabe with Chance the Rapper: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/nosaj-thing-daito-manabe-dancing-drones-cold-stares
  • Masanabe’s other work: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/watch-a-modern-dance-battle-between-drones-and-a-human
• Tim Wood, RJ Duran, and Sterling Crispin, “Catch and Release”, performance piece in conjunction with “Life in the Age of Drones” symposium, UC Santa Barbara. (Wood danced with a UAS.)
  • http://mat.ucsb.edu/show/2013/projects/catch-and-release/
• “Sparked: A Live Interaction between Humans and Quadcopters”; Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios, 2014
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C8OJsHfmpI (05:24)
  • Behind the scenes: http://youtu.be/7YqUocVcyrE (02:39)
• Josephine Starrs, “Dancing with Drones” video installation featuring dancer Alison Plevey, Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival Carriageworks Sydney, Australia, October 22-25, 2015
  • http://josephinestarrs.com/lx/?page_id=86
  • Online text of article on the installation by Ann Finegan, Runway Australian Experimental Art Magazine, issue #28 September 2015: http://runway.org.au/hunting-ground-dancing-with-drones/
    •  “A Taste of the Drone Dance”, 2014, short video created by Leon Cmielewski and Josephine Starrs with dancer Alison Plevey at Bundanon, NSW, Australia.
    • https://vimeo.com/83947549 (01:51)
• Daito Manabe and Marco Tempest, “Magic Lab ‘24 Drone Flight’”, 2016
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4xtsH6pzoM (04:58)
  • http://www.daito.ws/en/work/magiclab-24-drone-flight.html
• Michelle Ellsworth, CU Boulder, Department of Dance, 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient
  • Clytigation: State of Exception”, 2015, funded by National Dance Project Presentation Grant
    • https://vimeo.com/157382991 (06:10)
    • https://vimeo.com/140218687 (06:06)
    • “Michelle Ellsworth’s CLYTIGATION: A Primer”, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTmMsc_IQhY (06:08)
• Kike Calvo, National Geographic
  • Aerial photos of dancers in water, taken by UAS
    • http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/22/art-and-dance-in-the-drone-age/

Dancing by UAS

Spaxels

• Definition: LED-equipped quadcopters that make up a drone swarm that then create imagery/formations while airborne (http://www.aec.at/spaxels/)
• Spaxels display: http://www.aec.at/spaxels/shows/brisbane-robotronica-2013/
• Long exposure shots: “Spaxels Lightpainting” Linz, Austria, December 11, 2013: https://vimeo.com/81813571 (02:16)
• “Drone 100 A Magical Experience (100 Dancing Drones Set World Record)” December 2015, Palm Springs, CA:
  • Intel Drone 100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teQwViKMnxw (01:41)
  • Making of from Ars Electronica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTwX1Z68qMY (05:33)
  • Making of from Intel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ-js5zn-I0 (05:34)
• “49 quadrocopter in outdoor-formation-flight / Ars Electronica Futurelab / Linz, Austria”, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShGl5rQK3ew (04:14)
• Lee Montgomery, “Constellations in the City”, Albuquerque, NM, 2014
  • http://516arts.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=331:heart-of-the-city&catid=56:special-projects#/gallery-164-image/8
  • http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/446125-lee-montgomerys-drone
• “Hula Hoop Drone Light Show?! Ctrl.me -The Future of Drones”, 2015:
  • https://youtu.be/5-9lk_y7vJs (01:51)
• “Meet Your Creator”, Saatchi and Saatchi New Director’s Showcase, 2012
  • “Meet Your Creator-Quadrotor Show” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cseTX_rW3uM (07:25)
• “Musical Laser Forests, Light Painting, and Quadcopters | Meet Marshmallow Laser Feast”, Marshmallow Laser Feast via the Creators Project, 2013
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqhdqzWynl8 (07:07)
• “Parrot Drones Dance”, 2015, China
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XDC9o4_89Q (00:43)