Greetings Diana,

I enjoyed your article, “Dancers Fill an Electric Void with a Slow-Burning Ballet” on
Roya Sach’s installation, VOID. It was a fascinating example of how immersive a
performance can be when movement and digital formats intersect. I think The Creative
Project readers would be interested in reading a preview about a similar dance work,
Analog, featuring S.J. Ewing & Dancers, choreographed by CityDance Ignite artist Sarah
J. Ewing.

Analog, is an interactive performance of dance and computer-generated projections.

Ewing is using Xbox Kinect sensors to track the dancer’s movements, then uses the data
to manipulate her animations that are programmed in Quartz Composer. The animations
will be projected throughout the show, allowing the dancers to create the environment of
their performance based on their own choices in movement.

I also love computer code, the automation of workflows and the beautiful logic that runs
databases and websites.  It is everything that dance isn’t; reliable, consistent, and
permanent - and yet, for me, the process of creating a dance piece and designing a
database are the same. – S.J. Ewing

Analog will take place at Dance Place in Washington, D.C. on Saturday August 13 at 8
p.m. and Sunday, August 14 at 7 p.m. Analog is funded in part by the D.C. Commission
on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for
the Arts.

If you are interested in more information about the work, I can arrange an interview with
Ewing at your convenience. Thank you in advance for your consideration.