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The Elektrik Zoo performs at the Sidearm Gallery
New Orleans, LA – June 19, 2009 – The Elektrik Zoo Creative Partnership performed their latest creation “ATAWii 2.0” at the Sidearm Gallery on Friday. Collaborating with local choreographer and NOCCA Dance Instructor Chard Gonzalez, Elektrik Zoo co-founders Daneeta Loretta Jackson and Patrick Jackson VJed the performance using altered recorded video footage, live video and original animation.
“We first started working with Chard on ATAWii v. 1.0 back in February of this year,” said Daneeta. “When we performed at the Baton Rouge Little Theatre, it was just a five-minute piece with Chard as the only dancer. At that stage, Patrick and I had no real experience collaborating with dancers, but we knew that Chard’s choreography was something special.”
Gonzalez describes ATAWii as “a collaborative dance/film work in progress the objective is to explore the integration of performance with recorded and live video projection. Rather than using video as a background to the performance, the piece is choreographed as a dialogue between the two mediums. Thus, the viewers focus is directed toward the interplay between performer and video.”
