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)
- Clytigation: State of Exception”, 2015, funded by National Dance Project Presentation Grant
- 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/
- Aerial photos of dancers in water, taken by UAS
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)
Unmanned aircraft systems have opened up the medium of dance to new and exciting possibilites.
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"The Making of Drone 100" chronicles the collaboration between Ars Electronica Futurelab and Intel to create a performance using illuminated drones.
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SPARKED: A Live Interaction Between Humans and Quadcopters by Cirque du Soleil, 2014.
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Music video for the song "Cold Stares" by Nosaj Thing, featuring Chance the Rapper and The O'My's.
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Dancing with Drones by COLLMOT ROBOTICS, 2015.