John Toenjes & David Marchant - Merging Dance and Music
John and David, along with their collaborator Ben Smith, have been creating interactive dance theater works since 2005, when they premiered Leonardo’s Chimes at Washington University in St. Louis. It has since been performed at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in 2006 and at the 2008 SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Arts in Minneapolis, and as part of the Inventions Suite, an evening-length interactive dance suite premiered at the 2008 Ingenuity Festival in Cleveland, OH. The broader focus of their development is computer dance/music systems to make art, games, and educational/ therapeutic tools that develop kinesthetic awareness through audio feedback. John is Associate Professor and Music Director of the UIUC Department of Dance and David is a Senior Lecturer at Washington University. A composer and violinist, Ben is pursuing a doctorate in music at UIUC.
Website: www.jtoenjes.com.
This talk was recorded at TEDxUIUC 2010 (April 10, 2010).