Image: Aaron Cota

A interactive telepresence dance/media performance staged simultaneously in Northern and Southern California, öötöö used the Active Space media performance system to connect a dance concert on the UC Santa Cruz mainstage with dancers in the eMedia Studio at UC Irvine. öötöö (pronounced "ooh-too") observed the life of the dreamer, investigating ways in which fragments from our day can get reassembled during sleep, sometimes in strange and unpredictable ways. This piece featured a cast of 18 student dancers on stage at UCSC, interacting with 7 dancers at UCI using the Active Space system over a high-performance network.

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Production date: June 2006

Venues

Mainstage Theatre, Santa Cruz, California

University of California, Irvine

Credits

John Crawford - Co-director; interaction, media & projection design; media performer

Lisa Naugle - Co-director & choreographer

Edward Warburton - Co-director & choreographer

Martin Gotfrit - Composer