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"Andante Spianato" - Santiago Echeverry

ANDANTE SPIANATO is an experimental video dance captured with the Kinect sensor that studies the nature of classical ballet gestures in decomposed 3D pixels and lines. Inspired by Chopin's "Andante Spianato", which means "Flowing Smoothly", Susannah LeMarquand, Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Tampa, created this short piece working with dancer Angela Olea. The music is performed by internationally acclaimed pianist Grigorios Zamparas, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Tampa and was recorded live during one of his guest recitals at the University of Indianapolis in 2009.

The Kinect camera processing, the programming and the editing was done by Santiago Echeverry, Associate Professor of Digital Arts at the University of Tampa. The editing and the visuals are undoubtedly inspired by the XIX century paintings of ballet dancers by Edgar Degas; by the short Depuis le Jour by Derek Jarman, made for the movie Aria in 1987; and by Pas de Deux, a 1968 experimental dance film by Norman McLaren.

As part of the piece I created a series of PRINTS manipulating the frames captured for the video, in order to explore the nature of color and movement when time is frozen.