HW - 21 Art Project Digital Dance

Dance Digital

Choreographer/dancer: Devin Morgan


Movement I: Energizin’

Music: Universal Mind Control – Common featuring Pharrell



Movement II: Zonin’ out

Music: City Life Part I – Steve Reich



Movement III: Crash & Burn

Music: Pursuit of Happiness – Kid Cudi featuring Ratatat

Question # 1

I hope my dance is both a mirror and a hammer, a mirror
of how the digital life affects me for better and for worse and a
hammering home of the danger of getting too much of it and having
the addiction take over my body and mind.

Question # 2

Dancing is a way of feeling intensely whatever it is you are trying to express with the dance. In the first part of this dance, I was completely into the video game and it was a good feeling. In the second part, I was on cruise control going through the motions without thinking about what
I was doing. In the third part of the dance, my brain was hurting, I wasn’t thinking straight, and I was losing control of body parts. Like Violet in Feed, my internal digital device was failing. I was dying. In fact, I died.

Question #3

Finding the music to go with the dance was challenging at first and then
extremely satisfying when the songs fit the movements. The songs by Common and Kid Cudi are two of my favorites. I could not find one I liked for the Zonin’ Out section so I remembered a dance Eliot Feld had choreographed with a kind of driving beat, and I looked it up. The music was by Steve Reich. I listened to some of his other works online and
found City Life – Part I. It seemed perfect. Having a sense right away that it was the sound I was looking gave me some confidence in what I was doing. Finding music and dance movements to go with a story line about digitalization in my life provides a deeper understanding of it