3d Movement for Video

Tuts Camera

Tutting is an urban dance style that exclusively employs the use of right angles. As a viewer, I’m consistently amazed at how aptly dancers can express themselves with such a rigorously unforgiving rule set (when you hit an angle that is not 90 degrees, it looks pretty bad pretty quickly).

To express my fascination with the form, I took some footage of a friend and made two videos with it. Just like Liquid Cam, the center of the frame is the dancer’s hands. The first video has a pair of hands in the center of the frame, always pointing towards one another. The second video is of just the right hand, in the center of the frame, always pointing downwards.

Virtual Boxes & LED painting: Hat Trick

Often dancers will create imaginary shapes with their bodies to manipulate and dance against. Sometimes the goal is to get the audience to see and digest these shapes, and sometimes it’s just a tool for the dancer to achieve a variety of interesting and related shapes with their own bodies.

These two videos use post-production editing to explicitly assert these shapes’ existence, and to expose a part of the dancer’s process.