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If one is to really work seriously and mindfully with a (video) camera, it has to be something about how one sees or casts one’s vision onto things. The “eye” of the camera: does it “will” or dominate what is to be seen? How naïve to think the camera can stand in for or mimic the fleeting, fitful improvisation of the actual gaze. But then…

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What new rhythms await me? Can I shed the habitual responses to originate a new response to a new set of tensions?   In her chapter on “Time” from Poetics of Contemporary Dance, Laurence Louppe states:

An accent or release between a tension and counter-tension within the body, however, is never a break but rather always a transition.…

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What new rhythms await me? Can I shed the habitual responses to originate a new response to a new set of tensions?   In her chapter on “Time” from Poetics of Contemporary Dance, Laurence Louppe states:

An accent or release between a tension and counter-tension within the body, however, is never a break but rather always a transition.…

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What new rhythms await me? Can I shed the habitual responses to originate a new response to a new set of tensions?   In her chapter on “Time” from Poetics of Contemporary Dance, Laurence Louppe states:

An accent or release between a tension and counter-tension within the body, however, is never a break but rather always a transition.…

]]> 2010-08-29T13:59:47+00:00 Videocartepostales de Paris http://www.petersparling.com/index.php/current_work/post/Videocartepostales_de_Paris_A_Video_Log_from_Cite_Internationale_des_Arts/ http://www.petersparling.com/index.php/current_work/post/Videocartepostales_de_Paris_A_Video_Log_from_Cite_Internationale_des_Arts/#When:18:31:32Z Paris Journal –Peter Sparling

8/6/10 Ann Arbor, MI.  In anticipation of my upcoming 4-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts...

I’m walking across the playground at dusk, when these thoughts come to me. I speak this into my cell phone, leaving this message (or the gist of it) on the answering machine of my home phone to retrieve once…

]]> 2010-08-23T18:31:32+00:00 Naked Came I/Eye: Lights, Camera and the Ultimate Spectacle http://www.petersparling.com/index.php/current_work/post/naked_came_ieye_lights_camera_and_the_ultimate_spectacle/ http://www.petersparling.com/index.php/current_work/post/naked_came_ieye_lights_camera_and_the_ultimate_spectacle/#When:22:30:19Z

I recently presented this paper the annual Society of Dance History Scholars conference at University of Surrey in Guildford, England. This year's theme was "Dance and Spectacle". 
My presentation was one of the few by a working artist about his own work. My challenges: How do I look back upon my own work and place it under various theoretical…

]]> 2010-08-21T22:30:19+00:00 An Experiment in 3-D Motion Capture http://www.petersparling.com/index.php/current_work/post/an_experiment_in_3-d_motion_capture/ http://www.petersparling.com/index.php/current_work/post/an_experiment_in_3-d_motion_capture/#When:21:44:04Z The U-M Digital Media Commons is a playground for research in technologies that record, reveal, enhance and/or recreate movement of the human body. 
This video captures a moment during a recent "play session" when a group of high school students walked in to the Video Studio while I was improvising in my motion capture body suit.
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]]> 2010-08-21T21:44:04+00:00 The “i” Word http://www.petersparling.com/index.php/current_work/post/the_i_word/ http://www.petersparling.com/index.php/current_work/post/the_i_word/#When:19:28:47Z A student in my Screendance course, Helen Zhang, has created a wonderful video that surveys the interdisciplinary (the "i" word) work of a handful of professors at U-M.
Check it out at http://youtube.com/watch?v=c7iO7qXoyUk 

]]> 2010-05-22T19:28:47+00:00 Mid-States Regional Ballet Festival http://www.petersparling.com/index.php/current_work/post/mid-states_regional_ballet_festival/ http://www.petersparling.com/index.php/current_work/post/mid-states_regional_ballet_festival/#When:15:58:31Z Presented by Michigan's own Ballet Americana located in Taylor, MI, this festival features master classes, adjudications and performances. I will teach six master classes in Contemporary Dance April 29-May 1. See website: http://balletamericana.org/

]]> 2010-04-01T15:58:31+00:00 To Paris! http://www.petersparling.com/index.php/current_work/post/to_paris/ http://www.petersparling.com/index.php/current_work/post/to_paris/#When:15:53:52Z I will be in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris September 3-December 27, 2010. While part of an international community of 270 artists, i will present my work, continue to make screendances, develop The Bodytalk Template, a comparative, intercultural study of male dance improvisers, and write about European dance for Ballet…

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