New Mexico Dance Hackathon Presents, “The Human Body’s Digital Echo” An Artist Talk by Kelsey Paschich. Friday April 25 at ARTSLab 

Kelsey Paschich is a multidisciplinary dance artist originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is an Assistant Professor of Innovation in Dance at Western Michigan University and currently based in Kalamazoo, MI. She experiments with and creates live + digital work that explores the moving body and its relationship to technology. She uses movement as a language that makes transparent the space between dream + reality with spontaneity, juxtaposition, the element of surprise and challenges the preconceived understanding of real versus surreal. Her work often utilizes multi-media elements inspired by surrealism as the theoretical + conceptual framework. 

This event is free and open to the public. New Mexico Dance Hackathon is sponsored by UNM ARTSLab. This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts. 

10am-11:30am: Composing the Stage Space with Donna Jewell. 

Donna Jewell will lead Hackathon participants through a number of exercises that show how the stage space can be used in creating exciting and compositional dance works. Professional dancers will demonstrate improvisational prompts and viewers will get a chance to create their own improvisational score. 

11:30am-1pm: Sensing the Stage Space with ARTSLab. 

ARTSLab Director, Stewart Skylar Copeland, and graduate researcher, Sarah Bennett-Davidson, will demonstrate and discuss the technology being used by UNM ARTSLab for the NM Dance Hackathon. Participants can get a sense of what is possible and how to access the data for live collaborations with dancers. The presentation will share some of the capabilities of ARTSLab and how they can be used for the development of dance and tech projects.  

New Mexico Dance Hackathon is sponsored by UNM ARTSLab. This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.