New applied sciences like digital actuality and social media are opening up new methods of presenting and interacting with dancers, creators and performances. It is certainly an thrilling and fascinating time for the art-form and choreographer and former Birmingham Royal Ballet dancer Alexander Whitley, is pioneering the tech dance area with the launch of a dance digital actuality (VR) App.<\/p>\n Alexander Whitley and Natalie Allen in Pattern. Photo by Tristram Kenton<\/p>\n In this podcast episode, Alex explains how VR and dance work collectively and the way audiences can see and expertise his piece \u2018Celestial Motion\u2019\u00a0<\/em>in a brand new and interactive means. Put on a VR headset and you may be on stage, you may look 360 levels and rise up near the dancers.<\/p>\n Celestial Motion<\/span><\/i> was tailored by Alex from his unique stage manufacturing <\/span>8 Minutes,<\/span><\/i>\u00a0which obtained rave critiques when the piece premiered final yr<\/span>. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n You can pay attention additionally to our podcast<\/a> with Alex,\u00a0<\/span>which supplies a deep perception into the mental foundations and artistic course of behind \u00a08 Minutes<\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Alexander Whitley \u2013 Frames<\/p>\n The <\/span>Celestial Motion App <\/span><\/i>was <\/span>produced by <\/span>The Guardian\u2019s award-winning in-house VR workforce<\/span><\/a>, and made in affiliation with Sadler\u2019s Wells<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n Download The Guardian VR app from the <\/span>Apple App Store<\/span><\/a> or the <\/span>Google Play Store<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n PRESS PLAY.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] New applied sciences like digital actuality and social media are opening up new methods of presenting and interacting with dancers, creators and performances. It is certainly an thrilling and fascinating time for the art-form and choreographer and former Birmingham Royal Ballet dancer Alexander Whitley, is pioneering the tech dance area with the launch of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Alexander](\"http:\/\/www.thewonderfulworldofdance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PatternReconition-AlexanderWhitley-Platform-820.jpg\")
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