On Wednesday, October 3, 2007, Dawn Stoppietllo of Troika Ranch, came and visited my VPA 302 class. Dawn and her partner Mark Coniglio started this project called Troika Ranch, which represents the three mediums of art they work with, music, dance, and technology. For nearly twenty years, Dawn has created choreography for bodies interfaced to computers through different systems, one being called the mini dancer. The mini dancer is a device that Mark invented after seeing drummers use a device that produced sound when a stick was waved in the air. He took that concept and made a similar device to wear on the body to would produce sound as the body moved. This group had content-driven mediated performances that were shown to us.
Throughout the two and a half hour lecture and viewing of their past performances, Dawn took us through the past twenty years of her and her companies life and showed us how they grew into the company they are today. She also made me realize that passion is the number one, most important feeling to have in art making. This group has a passion to learn, create and make better. They have a drive to create powerful pieces that will touch other people. I was very motivated after watching all of their pieces and hearing Dawn speak. Great performance.
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