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Title: Sensorial Screendance: Approaching Screendance Through a Sensory Lens
Join award-winning filmmaker and choreographer Merli V. Guerra for this sensory-based screendance workshop. Applicable for both experienced dance-on-camera creators and those new to the field, this workshop approaches screendance through a sensory ethnography lens. Participants will engage in hands-on exercises that assist us, as makers, in creating visceral experiences for the viewer. We then build on this concept by discussing and experiencing 360-degree choreographic works for virtual reality, while considering the "viewer" instead as "participant" and "co-creator" of the works unfolding.
Title: Sensorial Screendance: Approaching Screendance Through a Sensory Lens
Join award-winning filmmaker and choreographer Merli V. Guerra for this sensory-based screendance workshop. Applicable for both experienced dance-on-camera creators and those new to the field, this workshop approaches screendance through a sensory ethnography lens. Participants will engage in hands-on exercises that assist us, as makers, in creating visceral experiences for the viewer. We then build on this concept by discussing and experiencing 360-degree choreographic works for virtual reality, while considering the "viewer" instead as "participant" and "co-creator" of the works unfolding.
Merli Guerra
Merli V. Guerra, MFA in Dance, is an award-winning choreographer and interdisciplinary artist with a focus on dance, film, and history. She is co-founder and artistic director of Luminarium Dance Company, an award-winning 501(c)(3) nonprofit merging dance and illumination in Boston, MA, USA (founded 2010), and Princeton, NJ, USA (2017-23); and was recently appointed as Assistant Professor of Dance Technology at Texas A&M University (College Station, TX, USA).
Guerra is a 2022 recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the NJ State Council on the Arts and Mid Atlantic Arts for her work in screendance, and a 2015 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s prestigious Gold Star Award for her site-specific productions and community engagement. Her films and artistic works have been presented by 100+ events across the U.S., and internationally in Europe, North America, Asia, and South America, with interactive public art installations permanently on view in the U.S. and Portugal. She regularly presents on merging dance with virtual reality technologies, most recently at Our World Heritage International Globinar 2.0 (2021); Harvard University Virtual/Augmented Reality (2021); the Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit (2022); and the Women in Dance Leadership Conference (2022), where she led a panel on dance and technology practices.
Learn more at merliguerra.com.
Merli V. Guerra, MFA in Dance, is an award-winning choreographer and interdisciplinary artist with a focus on dance, film, and history. She is co-founder and artistic director of Luminarium Dance Company, an award-winning 501(c)(3) nonprofit merging dance and illumination in Boston, MA, USA (founded 2010), and Princeton, NJ, USA (2017-23); and was recently appointed as Assistant Professor of Dance Technology at Texas A&M University (College Station, TX, USA).
Guerra is a 2022 recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the NJ State Council on the Arts and Mid Atlantic Arts for her work in screendance, and a 2015 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s prestigious Gold Star Award for her site-specific productions and community engagement. Her films and artistic works have been presented by 100+ events across the U.S., and internationally in Europe, North America, Asia, and South America, with interactive public art installations permanently on view in the U.S. and Portugal. She regularly presents on merging dance with virtual reality technologies, most recently at Our World Heritage International Globinar 2.0 (2021); Harvard University Virtual/Augmented Reality (2021); the Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit (2022); and the Women in Dance Leadership Conference (2022), where she led a panel on dance and technology practices.
Learn more at merliguerra.com.