3D [Embodied]

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“3D [Embodied] is a mixed reality performance involving a virtual world as a platform to explore 3D immersive spatial virtual and physical displays. Combining real time geometry perspective transformation of the peripheral projected space and skeleton tracking from the dance performer, 3D [Embodied] experiences spatial augmented reality.”

By Joao Beira, Choreography by Yacov Sharir, sound design by Bruce Pennycook and technical support by Sebastian Kox, Yago de Quay and Marta Ferraz.
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After graduation from the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Professor Yacov Sharir studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, the Bat-Sheva Dance Company School, the Stuttgart Ballet, and the Ballet Theatre Contemporaine in Paris. He has performed under the direction of Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins, Jose Limon and Anna Sokolow, among others. A dual citizen of the U.S. and Israel, Sharir is the founder of both the American Deaf Dance Company and the Sharir Dance Company, a professional dance company of the UT College of Fine Arts. As a multiple recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Choreographic Fellowship, he has choreographed for such companies such as the Bat-Sheva Dance Company, Hartford Ballet, Dallas Ballet, the Kibbutz Dance Company of Israel and the Utah Repertory Dance Theatre. He was a recipient of an “Arts And Virtual Environments” two year fellowship awarded by the Banff Center for the Arts and is engaged in extensive international lectures and workshops directly related to the issues of virtual environments, cyberspace and computerized choreography. As of March 2013, he has been awarded the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Plymouth, England for a programme of work entitled “Beyond the Electronic Connection: The Technologically Manufactured Cyber-Human and Its Physical Human Counterpart in Performance: A Theory Related to Convergence Identities.”
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Yacov Sharir was the recipient of the 1998 Career Research Excellence Award in the Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Authors Award competition at The University of Texas at Austin; was given the 1997 Innovative Use of Instructional Technology “Virtual Reality & Cyberspace in the Arts” award; and received the 1995-96 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Award. In addition, he is a recipient of numerous National Endowment for the Arts Choreographic Fellowship awards, a Meet the Composer/Choreographer National Grant award and The University of Texas College of Fine Arts Student Council Teaching Excellence Award. He has served on the National Endowment for the Arts Choreographic Fellowship Dance Panel, the Texas Commission on the Arts Dance Panel, the Mid-America Dance On Tour Panel and on several international Arts Councils in Israel, Spain and France. Professor Sharir has served on the summer dance faculty at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance for the past nine years.