Goldsmiths Mocap Streamer and Alexander Whitley Dance Company

Project partners: Goldsmiths, University of London, Alexander Whitley Dance Company 

This collaboration between Dr Dan Strutt of Goldsmiths, University of London and the Alexander Whitley Dance Company (AWDC) created a tool for remote digital-dance composition, collaboration and creation.

The project successfully integrated two existing pieces of software – the Goldsmiths Mocap Streamer and Alexander Whitley Dance Company’s ‘Otmo’ – to create a single, easy-to-use tool for effective remote digital-dance composition, collaboration and creation.

Previously, each tool required some level of specialist technical input. The collaboration fully integrated the two platforms to create a unique, all-in-one virtual choreographic tool that can receive live inputs of dance sequences from anyone, anywhere in the world. 

The new software enables choreographers to work remotely with dancers in a direct and responsive mode, live-linking studio spaces without the need for highly specialised set-up. It addresses the lack of accessible and user-friendly creative tools for working with motion captured movement. 

The collaboration combined two sets of goals from the partners’ respective R&D frameworks to create a shared solution with potentially wide-reaching impact within the creative industries. 

The project is one of seven initiatives supported by the XR Network+ Prototyping, Impact and Acceleration (PIA) funding call. Grants of up to £10,000 were awarded to researchers at UK universities to develop new ideas and complete existing research related to VP between September 2023 and March 2024.

Categories: Performance