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Dance and Technology Combines With 'DANCEHACKIT' This Weekend
On Saturday, Nov. 19, from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., dancers from across the world will perform as part of DANCEHACKIT at LIU's Kumble Theater in Brooklyn and online at www.dancehackit.com.
Dance and technology will combine to create unexpected results in cyberspace on Saturday and Brooklyn will be the hub. With DANCEHACKIT coming to Kumble Theater at LIU Brooklyn on Saturday, Nov. 19, Tony Award-nominated choreographer Marlies Yearby and fashionista/tech guru Bonnie Sandy hope to create an extraordinary virtual performance, crafted by tweaking movement, music, fashion and technology on a global scale.
It all lifts off on Saturday until 4:30 p.m. when dancers from across the U.S., the Caribbean, Europe and West Africa will perform to the same musical playlist, at the same time and in their own distinctive styles.
Their improvisations will be remixed and streamed in real time on a wide screen to an audience at Long Island University’s Kumble Theater in Brooklyn (Flatbush Ave., between DeKalb Avenue and Willoughby Street) and online at www.dancehackit.com.
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Viewing experiences, both online and in the theater, are free to the public.
Dance performers/leaders include Tracy Lang Dance (GA), Baraka de Soleil (IL), Marlies Yearby and Love/Forte (NY), and Janelle Mahone Sy (Gambia). Richard Ambrose (St Lucia), Stacey Adamiec (Wales), Christal Brown (Vermont), Music by Oliver Lake, Wunmi and Slow Commotion, Vernon Reid, Morley Kamen, Craig Harris, Dei Free Range Music, Antonie Ronie Groove Lily, Chen Lo and others will be featured. Participating designers include Kuumba Designs (St Lucia), Melissa Lockwood of IQTEST (NYC).
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“Existing at the intersection of movement, music and technology, DANCEHACKIT is designed to remove the limitations of location by being virtual and globally accessible,” explains project director and co-founder Yearby.
DANCEHACKIT will end with a panel discussion with organizers and sponsors entitled Creativity, The Next Commodity: How Do Artists Master the Technology for Sustainability and Profit? "With Google launching 100 online channels and Comcast committing to at least eleven new channels, there is a need for innovative content. Artists have an opportunity to fill that void, but they first need to learn and adapt the technology. This is what we are doing here at BKFFF," says Sandy.
For more information about the program please contact the Kumble Theater box office at 718-488-1624. To register and view online visit: http://www.bkfff.com/dancehackit.
