http://glassyessence.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:53:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en USB Bracelets Beginning with the opening night performance of Glassy Essence, Cedar Lake is testing new technology to create unique souvenirs of installation performances. Partnering with All Access Today which specializes in producing USB drives attached to bracelets, live video from each performance will be loaded onto the bracelets which are ... http://glassyessence.com/blog/?p=32 Episode 5: Rehearsal Video Available on Vimeo at http://www.vimeo.com/826829. Available on YouTube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=HoCJyEC-e6s Available on iTunes as a Podcast Video by Gilles Papain http://glassyessence.com/blog/?p=31 Episode 4: Rehearsal Video Available on Vimeo at http://www.vimeo.com/826711. Available on YouTube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=V4-ohiNOT3Q Available on iTunes as a Podcast Video by Gilles Papain This shows some of the choreography that Jessica Keller discussed in her First Rehearsal post. http://glassyessence.com/blog/?p=30 Episode 3: Rehearsal VideoAvailable on Vimeo at http://www.vimeo.com/826681.Available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAKRuQXiIR0Available on iTunes as a PodcastVideo by Gilles Papain http://glassyessence.com/blog/?p=29    Our second week in the studio has just started. Monday morning tension was there… and slowly abated with the day. Sitting in the theater between two rehearsals, I suddenly realized how much the tempo has intensified since our first day of creation in Norway.    Swan and I got to work ... http://glassyessence.com/blog/?p=20 Looks like Jason beat me to posting about the first rehearsal but I’m going to post this anyway. I feel like we say this over and over, but the process is really collaborative. Swan starts by teaching us a phrase sometimes making adjustments as soon as he sees it on us. ... http://glassyessence.com/blog/?p=14 Today we had our first real rehearsal for Glassy Essence. It feels like forever since we’re created a piece with Swan. It’s been more than a year since he choreographed Vastav. We started by generating movement from Francois photos. It was cool to see how the still images turned into movement ... http://glassyessence.com/blog/?p=10 Two years ago I saw my first Cedar Lake performance. I was really impressed with Swan’s work with the company. When I talked with him afterwards we realized that we were taking our work in the same direction. We knew that we had to work together on a project in ... http://glassyessence.com/blog/?p=8 This kind of flying with a harness is different from the kind of hanging stuff that we’ve done with Swan before. He has had us hanging and swinging around on walls, but it’s so different without the wall to push off from. Now that you’re in the middle of the ... http://glassyessence.com/blog/?p=7 We went down to the financial district with Gilles and Swan so Gilles could get footage of us in an urban setting for the installation. He was also taking photos, but I think Ana took some of these too.The photo shoot was really a chance to be set free in ... http://glassyessence.com/blog/?p=6