Studio//Stage
Studio//Stage is a live coded screen dance performance on the web in the live coding environment Estuary. It uses dance specific language to create a JSolang for the creation of a choreographic composition in real-time.
The idea of Studio//Stage is that movement in the form of video clips is developed and crafted through the development of the JSoLang in the “studio” side of the live coding, mapping dance terminology to CineCer0. The final video performance that is viewed is coded in the “stage” side of language. Both the studio and the stage can be manipulated in performance to create a video dance that explores timings, loops, phrases and locations on the screen, allowing for algorithmic choreography to emerge in real-time and the development of the “programmer as choreographer”. The networked capabilities of Estuary allow for an expansion of the choreographic process into a real-time collaborative method. One choreographer can be shaping the movement material in the “studio” and the another choreographer can be composing the piece in time and space on the “stage”. This type of improvisational structure is rare in algorithmic choreography as it is normally programmed by a solo coder.