Spring Dance Concert Live Stream

Not able to make it to Tufts for tonight's final performance of the Dance Program's end-of-semester concert but still want to see some student dance films? Well, you're in luck! As part of the Spring Arts Festival at Tufts, tonight's concert will be live streamed—a first for the Dance Program! The show starts at 7:00 (with the live stream becoming available 5-15 minutes beforehand), and the films are the first thing in the program after a brief introduction by Daniel McCusker and Renata Celichowska. (However, the remainder of the concert, which showcases the work of a lot of talented student dancers and choreographers, is definitely worth sticking around for.)

For more information on how to tune into tonight's live stream, click here! Or better yet, come see it in person tonight at 7:00pm in the Jackson Dance Lab at 50 Talbot Ave, Medford, MA—tickets are only $5.

- Cassie

Student Films at the Spring Dance Concert

The Tufts University Department of Drama & Dance's Spring Dance Concert is this weekend! In addition to showcasing work from the department's Dance Repertory & Performance class (which, this semester, was led by Dance on Camera instructor Jaclyn Waguespack) and graduating dance minors, there will also be a showing of some of the Dance on Camera students' independent projects:

• Overthought by Jane Acker
• Somewhere by Sophia Atik
• Wrecked, Solitary, Here by Cassie Burns
• Build a Home by Aaron Idelson
• Unbound by Anais Jurado
• Inching Closer by Josh Lee

Tickets are on sale now for $5 each in the Balch Arena Box Office at Tufts. For more information, check out the Facebook event page.

- Cassie

Day 12: On Location

Our most recent class was yet another work day for the students' final group projects. This time, I followed the other group to the Mystic River Reservation, where they were filming their project. The location was beautiful and the group worked wonderfully together, getting most (if not all) of the footage they needed in just one day. This means that next week, it's off to the editing lab!

In order to avoid spoiling their project too much, I'm only including two short clips from their shoot, both of which can be found after the jump:

Day 11: On Location

Now that the screening is over and independent projects have been submitted, the students have been able to focus all of their energy into creating their final group projects. This meant that all of last Friday was once again spent on location. While one group headed off campus to do some filming by the Mystic River, the other group stayed here at Tufts to explore some of the possibilities offered by using the library roof as their primary location in preparation for working with their dancers next week.

Some pictures and footage of their exploration can be found after the jump:

Augmented Reality at the Screening

Augmented reality was practically unavoidable at the dance on camera screening we hosted. In addition to hanging up some of the promotional materials we made which doubled as AR triggers, we also set up an exhibit entirely dedicated to showcasing student work through AR. Plus, every image in our program was an AR trigger. We made sure to have our students bring their iPads so that they could show people how it worked as they were arriving before directing them to our exhibit up on the balcony for more.

If you haven't already, be sure to download the dancetechAR app on your smart device so that you can scan all of our trigger images (program included) after the jump!