ANDANTE SPIANATO is an experimental video dance captured with the Kinect sensor that studies the nature of classical ballet gestures in decomposed 3D pixels and lines. Inspired by Chopin's "Andante Spianato", which means "Flowing Smoothly", Susannah LeMarquand, Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Tampa, created this short piece working with dancer Angela Olea. The music is performed by internationally acclaimed pianist Grigorios Zamparas, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Tampa and was recorded live during one of his guest recitals at the University of Indianapolis in 2009.

The Kinect camera processing, the programming and the editing was done by Santiago Echeverry, Associate Professor of Digital Arts at the University of Tampa. The editing and the visuals are undoubtedly inspired by the XIX century paintings of ballet dancers by Edgar Degas; by the short Depuis le Jour by Derek Jarman, made for the movie Aria in 1987; and by Pas de Deux, a 1968 experimental dance film by Norman McLaren.

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Biography

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Santiago Echeverry is a Colombian New Media and Digital Artist with a background in Film and Television production. Thanks to the Fulbright Grant he received his Master's degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. He moved to the USA in 2003 to teach Interactivity at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, UMBC, and then relocated to Florida in the Fall of 2005 to teach Digital Arts and Interactive Media at the University of Tampa. He started exhibiting internationally in 1992, and his research interests are non-linear narration, video-art, performance art, interactive design, creative code and web experimentation, never forgetting his commitment to Gay and Lesbian Human Rights.