DANCEPOD 2006

On September 9th at 11pm in Portland, 1 am in Mexico City, 2am in New York City and 7am in Berlin, dancepod will present an entirely new kind of sculpture. A sculpture composed of simultaneous, web-connected dance parties. The parties, coordinated and developed in conjunction with artists and presenters from each city, will utilize identical dancepod installations. The installations will become the core of a shared physical and virtual experience, supporting streaming video and music as well as live DJ’s, VJ’s, and guest artists. Moving bodies of dancing participants will complete the sculpture.

Sculpture

dancepod  is a sculpture composed of the structure by which it is created, implemented, engaged, remembered and imagined. dancepod and those participating within it coalesce to form the work as a whole, blurring the lines between creation of art and its enjoyment. Web casts extend the party and thereby the sculpture into new and unique territory.

Dance

Dance is more than physical movement, more than emotional release, more even than artistic communication. It is a way to stop time. It is a way to disappear. That is the risk inherent. For a moment, one might lose Themself. In that same moment a door can open and boundless potential manifest, the potential to be at once completely individual and at the same time entirely connected.