SPLICE Festival V 2023 Workshop 2
Saturday November 4, 2023
2:00pm EDT
Multi-Purpose Room, Berklee College of Music
132 Ipswich St, Boston, MA 02215
Erin Landers, Sophie Delphis, and Brian Ellis
Movement and Music: Working with Choreography and Motion Capture Technology
Brooklyn Motion Capture Dance Ensemble is dedicated to the art of sonification of movement. This workshop will be an exploration of our group's artistic practice, and will share best practices we've learned regarding collaborations among composers, choreographers, and creative coders. In our time together, we will discuss theoretical groundings, play with some AI-powered instruments, and perform a piece together as a group.
NOTE: To the extent that you are comfortable and able, this workshop will ask you to move with us. Comfortable clothing conducive to movement is encouraged but not required.
Bios
Erin Landers, Movement Director of Brooklyn Motion Capture Dance Ensemble, (she/her) is a Brooklyn based choreographer, teacher, and performer. She is a founding member of ECHOensemble, an improvising group of musicians and dancers, a dancer with dNaga Dance Company, an internationally-touring, intergenerational dance company directed by Claudine Naganuma, and was a co-founder of A-Y/dancers, a Hudson-Valley based repertory company. Erin is influenced by her upbringing in a musical household and study of a variety of dance forms including modern, contemporary, ballet, Zimbabwean (Shona), Irish (step), and Balkan folk dance, as well as mime. Erin recently produced her second evening-length performance, entitled of body of body of, a piece of horizontal movement theater. She has presented work at Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco), the Trust Performing Arts Center (Lancaster, PA), Alchemical Studios (New York City), ChaShaMa (New York City), and the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY).
Franco-American mezzo-soprano Sophie Delphis’ operatic roles include: Félicie/Adélaïde (La Belle et la Bête, Glass), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Giunone (La Calisto), Carmen and Mercédès (Carmen), Flora (La Traviata), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Cenerentola and Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Concepción (L’heure espagnole), Hansel, (Hansel and Gretel) and Elle (La voix humaine). An avid recitalist, Sophie regularly produces programs for musical and cultural organizations in the United States and China. Recent and upcoming works include: Ravel's Chansons madécasses and Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, Bolcom's Cabaret Songs, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten and Messiaen's Harawi. Along with classical repertoire, she enjoys collaborating with composers, improvisers and theater artists on new works. She is a soloist on the Grammy Award-nominated Naxos recording of Milhaud’s Oresteia trilogy. She currently resides in New York City, where she is pursuing a doctoral degree in voice performance at the Graduate Center CUNY.
Brian Ellis is a creative coder, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. His artistic practice centers around using code to democratize creative expression. He founded the Brooklyn Motion Capture Dance Ensemble to explore this via the medium of dance, and to expand the possibilities of movement-based musical interfaces. Brian additionally maintains many performance practices. He incorporates classical guitar, mountain dulcimer, live electronics, and no-input-mixing into his solo practice, and is an active ensemble member in Echo Ensemble and SANS; duo.