Route Movements
Route Movements is the MFA thesis dance performance by Ellen Oliver that brings together dance, rock climbing, and digital technology. The duration of the performance is 30 minutes, and featured live motion capture from a custom garment created in collaboration with Ellen that then controlled sound, lighting and projections elements created by Ramin Roshandel, Victor Maldonado and Emily Berkheimer respectively.
The outfit was created with retroreflective tape covered pearls attached to the dance outfit on the Core (50) markerset in OptiTrack Motive, with the 10 foot-based markers replaced with retroreflective tape affixed to Ellen's feet and a set of custom barrettes affixed to the hair to send the skeletal data to the computer.
Choreographer and Performer: Ellen Oliver
Media Designers: Emily Berkheimer and Ellen Oliver
Set Design: Ellen Oliver
Sound Designer: Ramin Roshandel
Lighting Designer: Victor Maldonado
Digital Media Specialist: Emily Berkheimer
MoCap Costume Specialist: Kaelen Novak
Fabrications Specialist: Juliana Waechter
Stage Manager: Mariana Tejeda
Poetry: Lénaïg Cariou (2019), translated from French by Virgil Blanc, text performed and recorded by Alexandria Pierre-Etienne
Media Designers: Emily Berkheimer and Ellen Oliver
Set Design: Ellen Oliver
Sound Designer: Ramin Roshandel
Lighting Designer: Victor Maldonado
Digital Media Specialist: Emily Berkheimer
MoCap Costume Specialist: Kaelen Novak
Fabrications Specialist: Juliana Waechter
Stage Manager: Mariana Tejeda
Poetry: Lénaïg Cariou (2019), translated from French by Virgil Blanc, text performed and recorded by Alexandria Pierre-Etienne
