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This Tuesday & Wednesday, join us for a TouchDesigner workshop! 6:30-9:30pm at Prime Produce in NYC (424 West 54th St). 🔗 to sign up & details in our bio. More on our instructor: Carlos Johns-Dávila is a Peruvian American multimedia artist and projection designer with a background in music composition. His work connects performance, technology, and storytelling through custom-built interactive video and sound environments. Carlos has collaborated with dance companies and choreographers including Kinetic Light, André Zachery, Mary John Frank, and Sydney Skybetter, creating immersive media for stage, film, and installations. He is a producer and co-owner of Black Heart, a worker-owned cooperative supporting creative practitioners with technical consulting, media production, and educational tools. Carlos’s visual and sonic work has been featured at Sundance: New Frontiers, Jacob’s Pillow, APAP in NYC, and more. His practice is rooted in access, sustainability, and collective knowledge-building, frequently drawing from reclaimed materials, open-source tools, and community-led archives. ~*~*~*~* Thanks to @xuelongmu and Hypercentric for the equipment support! Credits (in order of appearance): *Theremin Controlled Dance Music Excerpt by Carlos Johns-Dávila *Black Luminaries Innovation Exhibit EP: Nick Leavens Producer, Projection, UX Designer, & Score by: Carlos Written by: MaryAnn Talavera Art Direction/Animation by: Rozz Zimmerman *TouchDesigner Experiment by Carlos Johns-Dávila *Excerpt from “Pyrrha, The Poet, & Planet Earth” Direction & Choreography by Mary John Frank Performers: Amira Williams, Caitlin Taylor, and Payton Johnson Projection Design & Technician: Carlos Johns-Dávila Lighting: Celia Krefter *Projection & Swarm Experiments by Carlos! ✨ Music: “Dorothy” by Polo & Pan 🎶 taken in New York, New York by @dancetechcollective
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Join us for a TouchDesigner Workshop on October 13th & 14th (6:30pm) focused on creating interactive exhibits & immersive performances. The workshop will be led by @carlosjohnsdavila and is beginner level. 🔗 to sign up in our bio & more below! 📆 October 13th & 14th (Tues. & Wed.) ⏰ 6:30-9:30pm EST 📍 Prime Produce - 424 W 54th St, NYC 💵 $40 for both nights, $25 for one night (if you can only make one night, we recommend Tuesday, 10/13). ✨2 free spots for volunteers who can help us set up or wrap out. Interested volunteers, please email dancetechcollective@gmail.com 💡You’ll Learn: 1) TouchDesigner basics: network anatomy, vocabulary, and workflow 2) To use the four core operator families 3) To navigate the TouchDesigner interface confidently 4) To build interactive patches Hope to see you soon! 💫 Additional thanks to Piper Werle @pjmartel @xuelongmu & Allie Costa taken in New York City by @dancetechcollective
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This Thursday! A movement workshop with Catherine Kirk. 💫 Sign up 🔗 and details in our bio and below... 📆 Thursday, August 6th, 7:00-8:15pm  📍 Judson Church: 55 Washington Sq. South 💵 $25.00 suggested (Venmo @DanceTechCollective), DM if this amount is an issue. No one will be turned away. 🔗 in our bio We hope you can join us! Artist Bio: @cat_kirk is a performing and teaching artist raised on the unceded land of the Kiickaapoi and Wichita peoples, now known as Dallas, Texas. Catherine’s work creates socially complex and energetically charged environments with strong reference to the fleeting virality within today’s pop culture and social movements. Her movement is anchored in release and improvisation, and is influenced by how a collectively dying attention span juxtaposes her leisurely, southern ancestral groove. Catherine has a BFA in dance from New York University, a yoga certification through The Perri Institute for Mind and Body, and a Reiki certification.  Catherine has created work for installation spaces, commercials, and short films. She presented two solo works as an Artist-in-Residence at Art Cake Brooklyn and the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation and curated an evening for Chez Bushwick’s “RECESS”. Kirk most recently made work for The Peridance Collective. Catherine has worked as a dancer or collaborator with Rashuan + Silas, Jasmine Hearn, Ogemdi Ude, Rochelle Jamila, Sidra Bell Dance New York, Janet Biggs, Eva Davidova, UNA Productions by Chuck Wilt, Burr Johnson, and Helen Simoneau, and is featured in the award-winning Netflix series, Halston and the Showtime series, Ziwe. She has performed works by an array of choreographers including Bebe Miller, Sharon Eyal, Doug Varone, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, and Andrea Miller. Catherine danced for A.I.M by Kyle Abraham for 11 years and worked as the company’s Marketing Associate. She continues to restage A.I.M company works across American Universities and Dance Companies and is currently dancing for and is in her third year with Trisha Brown Dance Company. 📸 Cover by @okvinchenzo 🎶 by Aurelian Way 🪩 Thanks to Piper Werle for support with this post. by @dancetechcollective
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Let’s move! Join us for a workshop with Catherine Kirk on Thursday, August 6th. 🦋 Dancer & choreographer @cat_kirk blends her background in performance & yoga to guide this 75-minute open level movement workshop. It includes guided improvisation with the intention of listening to our body’s needs and opening pathways to creativity and expression. Catherine will also share ideas for remaining connected to our bodies throughout the day, along with suggestions for creating from an embodied and conscious place. Post-workshop there will be time for discussion and questions. 🔗 to sign up in our bio! 📆 Thursday, August 6th ⏰ 7-8:15pm EST 📍 Judson Church: 55 Washington Sq. South 💵 $25.00 Venmo @DanceTechCollective 😇 2 free spots for volunteers who can help us set up and wrap out, email dancetechcollective@gmail.com to volunteer 🕺🏽Open to all, no dance training needed Hope to see you there. ✨ Thanks to Piper Werle for support with this post! taken in New York, New York by @dancetechcollective
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Thank you to all who attended last week’s DTC workshop! 💫 Additional thanks to our thoughtful instructors @lisajamhoury & @seestrawrun and NYU Tandon at The Yard @idmnyu for the incredible space and technical support. Highlights for us: *Group play with sensors! We worked with 3 volunteer performers in motion capture suits, while additional participants were invited to play with “rigid bodies” (sensor tracked objects, as opposed to the suits’ flexible, free flowing tracking). This led to interactive play where artists could become light sources, steer the camera’s point of view, and more. *Learning about how Lisa integrates storytelling into her work, specifically in her piece “Maquette.” This live performance explores the human individuality we risk losing in the rapid virtualization of everyday life. The work was partially inspired by the unsettling story of “Norma,” a statue created in the 1940s to represent the average woman, though modeled only after white women ages 21–25, excluding most women by age, race, and body type. “Maquette” explores the notion of averaging, a mechanism used in software and machine learning that has been shown to make false assumptions about individuals, especially regarding neurodiversity, race, and gender. *For the workshop, the DTC researched various mo-cap systems and more specifically how/if AI is integrated into the OptiTrack → Unreal Engine workflow. The gist for curious minds: there are AI options in Unreal Engine, but the user can choose if they want to opt in. The standard OptiTrack → Unreal workflow does not require/use generative AI or AI assisted tracking to function. DM us if you’d like to learn about other mo-cap systems we’re researching and things we’re considering when approaching these systems. 📸 by @canigetawhitney Whitney Browne Additional thanks to @winslowturnerporteriii and @cinemaryann 🪩 taken in Brooklyn, New York by @dancetechcollective
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📣 Motion Capture Workshop with movement artist and computer programmer Lisa Jamhoury on June 9th! Details and sign up info below and in our bio. 📆 Tuesday, 6/9 from 6:30-9:30pm 📍 Brooklyn Navy Yard, IDM/NYU 💵 $35.00 🔗 Link to join us in bio! Our volunteer/free spots have been accounted for, but if pricing is an issue please email dancetechcollective@gmail.com. Hope to see you there! 📸 Credits: @iam.zui @createdby.zu @canigetawhitney #workshop #motioncapture #learning #playing #gathering by @dancetechcollective
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Upcoming Workshop on Tuesday, June 9th! We’re back with movement artist and computer programmer, Lisa Jamhoury, who will guide us through a Motion Capture for Live Performance workshop using OptiTrack and Unreal Engine. Check out her beautiful work above. More in our bio and below. ✨ This hands-on, informative, and fun workshop is for all levels of performing artists and technicians interested in dance, choreography and experimentation. 📆 June 9th from 6:30-9:30pm 📍Brooklyn Navy Yard, IDM/NYU 🤸🏽12 spots left 💵 $35.00 🙌🏼 1 free spot for a volunteer (arrive at 5:30 to help us set up or tidy up post-workshop). Interested volunteers, email dancetechcollective@gmail.com 🔗 Link to join us in bio! Artist Bio: Lisa Jamhoury is a Lebanese-American artist creating live performances, installations, and physical media. She creates and directs cinematically rich, embodied experiences that recenter human agency in the digital age. Drawing from her backgrounds in contemporary circus, somatics, and experience design, Lisa brings embodied intelligence to her work as a software programmer. She moves fluidly across platforms, code bases, and tools treating technology itself as choreographic material. A specialist in motion capture from high-end studio systems to low-cost experimental tools, she translates the nuance of human movement into responsive digital environments where bodies and machines converse. Lisa is an Interdisciplinary Fellow with the Royal Shakespeare Company and artist in residence with EY Intelligent Realities Lab. Her performance Maquette was a 2025 Lumen Prize Performance and Music finalist, and her spatial audio installation loss·y recently premiered at SXSW 2026. Video Credits: “Maquette” by Lisa, performed by @hybridmovementcompany, produced by @mediaartx at @onassis.onx with video footage by @jaredvanfleet and @visionmedia “loss·y” by Lisa, VFX by @snayss; additional 3D modeling/development by @nycap3d @header_munging @_wboony_, @_gauji, Huascar Acosta, Neil Jakeman, @astro_sh_lee “sync : mirror” by Lisa, made possible with support from @onassis.onx, @apossible with cinematography by @btmiclette.dp by @dancetechcollective
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That’s a wrap! THANK YOU to artists @sayermansfield & @silver_sarah for guiding us through DTC’s fall workshops focusing on dance and movement in live, physical spaces and virtual spaces too.🌀 We’re also grateful to the thoughtful, engaged participants, VR partners @unframedcollection_ , and venues @primeproduce & @judsonchurchnyc Wishing y’all the happiest of holidays and we look forward to gathering, working, & learning together in 2026! Photos by @canigetawhitney & @createdby.zu 📸 Much love! 🪩 by @dancetechcollective
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Join us on Monday (11/3) at 6:30pm EST for @silver_sarah ‘s Virtual Reality & Dance workshop in NYC. Sign up details & more in our bio (2 spots left). In addition to learning about Sarah’s work and process, participants can view this delightful VR project she choreographed, “Danse, Danse, Danse - Matisse.” 🎨 In this piece, audiences will rediscover three of Matisse’s major works: La Danse de Paris, La Danse inachevée, and La Danse de Merion, in an intimate and immersive 360 experience. Thank you to @unframedcollection_ for sharing your film and for the equipment support during this workshop! Thank you in advance to our VR Facilitator, Danielle Giroux. 🌀✨ “Danse, Danse, Danse — Matisse” Credits: Directors: Agnès Molia & Gordon Coproducers : Lucid Realities (Chloé Jarry), Tournez S’il Vous Plaît (Christie Molia) Choreographer & Performer: Sarah Silverblatt- Buser 🤸🏽 Voice overs: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Peter Hudson With the support of: CNC With the participation of: Hangar Y Distributor: Unframed Collection 🫶🏼 taken in New York, New York by @dancetechcollective
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Choreographer & Director, @silver_sarah, will be guiding our upcoming Dance & Virtual Reality workshop on November 3rd! More about Sarah and her work below. Link to sign up in our bio. ✔️ 📆 6:30 - 9pm, Monday 11/3 📍 424 W 54th St, NYC 💵 $25 suggested via Venmo: @DanceTechCollective (pay what you can, no one will be turned away) 🕺🏽 1 free spot for folks who can help us wrap out at the end Sarah Silverblatt-Buser is a dancer, director, choreographer, educator, and writer. She recently created the @atlasv.io produced Virtual Reality experience “Collective Body,” commissioned by @lincolncenter, and co-produced by Body of Ways and @onassis.onx, with support by the French CNC among others.  She has also co-directed Rave-L Party, a multimedia chamber orchestra performance and rave party for the Theatre du Chatelet, commissioned by l’Ensemble les Apaches. She choreographed Street Art, a concert relating the music of Steve Reich with the French street art of parkour, as well as La Petite Danseuse, an Augmented Reality experience for the Musée d’Orsay, and Danse, Danse, Danse - Matisse, a VR experience for the Paris Museum of Modern Art, both produced by Lucid Realities and directed by Gordon. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Movement Lab at Barnard College of Columbia University (2023) while serving as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Dance Department. She created two courses: Dance Improvisation and Digital Performance, exploring topics of embodiment, presence, VR/AR, immersion and the future with undergraduate students from across Columbia University.  As a performer, Sarah tours internationally with acclaimed cirque artist Yoann Bourgeois. She has danced in commercial videos ranging from fashion to public service and recently performed at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards with Harry Styles. Paris is her landing spot.✨ 📸 credits: Images 1 & 2: by Suzanne Distaine Sarah Silverblatt-Buser & Sarah Esser Image 3: “Collective Body” participants at Venice Immersive 2025 Image 4: “Collective Body” courtesy of Atlas V Image 5: by Terry Tsiolis of Sarah Silverblatt-Buser taken in New York, New York by @dancetechcollective
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✨ On Sunday, 9/28 @ 5pm we will dance, breathe, shake, feel the feels, and look for light despite the darkness out there. Sign up link in our bio + more on our brilliant guide @sayermansfield below: 📆 9/28, 5pm EST, 75-80 minute class 📍 Judson Church, 55 Washington Sq Park South 💵 $25 via Venmo: @DanceTechCollective (if this amount is an issue just pay what you can, no one will be turned away) 🕺🏽FREE spot for someone who can help us set up and/or break down at the end Sayer Mansfield is a movement artist, choreographer, and teacher who works across mediums including film, television, and music videos, most notably as a principal dancer in Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women,” and in the Virtual Reality creation of Marie Chouinard’s “Time for Time,” at the Musée d’Art Contemporain of Montreal. She has spent the past decade performing with Compagnie Marie Chouinard and Pilobolus Dance Theater. Sayer has also presented her own work at Jacob’s Pillow, ART CAKE (Brooklyn) and PS21 Chatham. She is also the creator of Innerstanding, an online space and movement language for a brighter being. She is currently dancing with The Metropolitan Opera (NYC), as a guest artist with the Mark Morris Dance Group and working as a freelance artist and teacher based between the Hudson Valley and New York City. Sayer has a deep love for teaching and has been an adjunct faculty member and guest artist at Jacob’s Pillow, Phillips Academy Andover, Roger Williams University, Harvard and Yale. Sayer holds a BFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts NYU, a BA from Trinity Laban (UK) and studied at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (Austria). ~*~*~*~*~*~ 🎥 Video Credits: Sayer teaching @groundworks.space “Please Come Alone” by BODYSONNET x Sayer “Jane & Fiona” @ Jacob’s Pillow by Sydney McManus & Sayer Improvisation ♥️ “Henri Michaux: Mouvements” by Compagnie Marie Chouinard Additional teaching at @groundworks.space “Innerstanding” video by Sayer Mansfield by @dancetechcollective
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Dance with us! 🤸🏽‍♀️ On Sunday, 9/28 @ 5pm, Sayer Mansfield will guide us in a Dance, Embodiment, and Innerstanding workshop at Judson Church (55 Washington Sq Park, NYC). This open level workshop will include a joyous, sweaty warmup, somatic shaking, and thoughtfully led improvisation. We’ll set intentions for the fall season focused on caring for our bodies and communities and mindfulness around how we engage with technology and our devices. Additionally, Sayer will offer gentle suggestions for staying connected to our bodies throughout the work day. 📆 5pm - 6:15pm, 9/28/25 📍 Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Sq Park 💵 $25 Venmo: @DanceTechCollective 🕺🏽 2 free spots for folks who can help us set up & wrap out (DM if interested!) ✅ Reserve your spot and learn more about @sayermansfield via the link in bio An invitation to tap into your body, your capacity, and your presence. Hope to see you there! ✨ by @dancetechcollective
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