 Two members of the Dartmouth
Dance Ensemble, Jennifer Armstrong, with the Hopkins Center (on the left), and
graduate student Emily Cross (right), are joined by Jonah Bokaer of the Merce
Cunningham Dance Company (middle). Their movements were optically captured and
translated to bring a computer-generated image to life. (Photo by Lauren Wool
’08)
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The third program in this fall’s Montgomery Fellows
Program series will feature a visit and lecture by Nobel Laureate Thomas
Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He will speak on
“Exploring the Edges between Scientific Disciplines” on Tuesday, Oct. 30, at
4:30 p.m. in Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall.
Human rights advocate and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson recently
spoke with Dartmouth students, faculty, staff, and community members as part of
her visit to campus as a Montgomery Fellow. While renowned choreographer Merce
Cunningham was in residence as a Montgomery Fellow, the Hopkins Center presented the world
premiere of his new dance, XOVER. According to The New
York Times, XOVER “takes Cunningham’s long fascination with
dance’s multi-directionality to a newly eloquent peak.”
The presence of the Merce Cunningham Company also provided the opportunity
to put the College’s new MX-F40 Vicon motion capture equipment to the test.
Segments of dances, some by Cunningham, were performed by dancers from
Dartmouth and the company, and documented digitally. While they danced, their
movements were mirrored on a screen by digital models, which were based on a
drawing by Cunningham. The new motion capture equipment helps establish a new
Digital Imaging Laboratory at Dartmouth, which has initial funding from a
National Science Foundation grant. The laboratory will support research,
teaching, and crossdisciplinary collaboration among the arts and the
sciences.
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