Abstract:
Performers of modern dance require more dancer interactive means of presenting their productions. Current control of theater visual aids used by Iowa State Dance and Co-Motion Dance Company is limited to preprogrammed routines, camera input, and limited remote input via primitive sensors. This project seeks to use dancer movement as input to control the operation of visual aids in a dance/theater performance. Using sensors on the bodies of dancers, which send a signal via transmitter to a receiver connected to a computer using the software Isadora, the dancers will be able to manipulate the visual equipment of the performance using their own movements. The clients require one working receiver and transmitter pair by the end of the project with the design allowing for expansion to 4 or more receiver and transmitter pairs (dancers). This development will add a new degree of freedom and creativity to the performances of Iowa State Dance and Co-Motion Dance Company.

Team Members:
Amanda Farniok - E E
Sheng Ly - Cpr E
Alex Sills - E E

Clients:
Janice Baker (Iowa State Dance)
Valerie Williams (Co-Motion Dance Company)

Faculty Advisors:
Dr. Julie Dickerson

Acknowledgement:
This project's testing and completion was largely dependent on the loan of wireless sensor components made to the design team by the I-Cube Wireless and Sensor Networking Lab headed by Dr. Daji Qiao.  Without their charitableness, this project could not have been a success.  The design team would like to acknowledge them and thank them for their kindness.