Abaddon

September 22, 2016 7:41 PM

Abaddon is a "poem of love and destruction" expressed in the medium of dance. Director Rogerio Silva also provides a breakdown of the visual effects used in the video.

The video is written and directed by Rogerio Silva, and choreographed and performed by Harriet Waghorn and Troy Savic, with music by Alaskan Tapes.

Edifice is another great dance video from the same director, and performed and choreographed by Carmine De Amicis and Harriet Waghorn.

posted by yasaman (5 comments total)

Breakdown link goes to the main video. Here, I think? Up until 3:15, I was trying to think of ways that this could be recreated live via something like via projection mapping, but I'm not sure that the technology is there yet. Very cool, though. Maybe by ADF 2018 or something...
posted by sysinfo at 8:56 PM on September 22, 2016

Ahhh, thank you, I let the mods know! As for recreating live, projection mapping would probably be your best bet, and I feel like I've seen something similar in other dance performances, but not sure there's any way short of holograms to get that ghost-like effect on the actual stage.
posted by yasaman at 9:19 PM on September 22, 2016

Mod note: *Correctly* fixed the links.
posted by restless_nomad (staff) at 10:25 PM on September 22, 2016

Thanks, restless_nomad! [rebuilding the relevant bit from my vanished comment]: Yep, the ghosting is the part where I went "huh... nevermind!" I don't think that there's anything that can realistically do occlusion yet.

I enjoyed Edifice, though now I'm wondering what was chromakeyed (not that it detracts from the choreography!)
posted by sysinfo at 10:32 PM on September 22, 2016

The Edifice video was fantastic, really beautiful in the tension and synergy.
posted by Iteki at 12:51 PM on September 23, 2016