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The New York Times has an article (registration required) about an upcoming Dance Visualization from the Forsythe Company and Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center.  The Forsyth Company dance troupe performed the “One Flat Thing”, a dance comprising 14 dancers and 20 tables in a tightly packed space.  Then OSU analysed the data:

Their analysis eventually focused on three systems for identifying counterpoint: movement motifs, cues and alignments, or moments of synchronization, within the choreography. Decoding these systems and constructing them as visual data took three years, Ms. Palazzi said, and a great deal of work with Mr. Forsythe and three of his dancers, Jill Johnson, Christopher Roman and Elizabeth Waterhouse.

They eventually computed 20 structures of the dance that they could visualize to understand how the dancers interact with each other in the “Cue Visualizer”. Then they created the “Data Fan”, a 3D visualization of the entire dataset in an artistic form.

The entire visualization & dance will be viewable on the OSU Synchronous Objects Website April 1st, 2009.

via Dance – William Forsythe and Ohio State Draw Movement’s Connections Online – NYTimes.com.

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