NEW APP for TOM GOLD DANCE
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DOT DOT DOT For The iPad Created By 2wice and Producer Patsy Tarr Director & Designer Abbott Miller
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, New York, NY
Tom Gold Dance was invited to be a part a new app, DOT DOT DOT, that is taking Dance into the next realm. Starring TOM GOLD, Directed by Ben Nicholas with Creative director Abbott Milller of Pentagram with music composed by Charles Yang created this new app that was produced by 2wice arts Foundation The app is a synthesis of Dance, Music, Art, Film and Technology for the next generation of viewers.
The app, starring Tom Gold, who appears, multiplies and disappears with the tap of your finger. Tom, as choreographer and dancer, is at your command. It is an interactive dance game by using the latest technology to propel dance throughout the world. In this app, Tom Gold, wearing Thom Browne clothing, choreographed a 3 minute dance that was set into many segments with additional choreography during the 2 day shoot at bathhouse studios.
Performing to an original violin score by Charles Yang, Tom is engaging, charming, and an extraordinary dancer jumping, turning, spinning, sliding, tapping, disappearing between, behind and among the columns, playing hide and go seek with you, the viewer. Swipe and the camera now goes close up revealing a far distant Tom dancing among the columns, swipe again, sit back to enjoy a three minute dance that Tom, a former New York City Ballet soloist and now head of his own ballet company, created especially for the iPad.
Please see the link for the app teaser
“I am thrilled to be a part of this revolutionary new app for dance”, says Director Tom Gold “
TOM GOLD DANCE
Tom Gold Dance was founded in 2007 by former New York City Ballet soloist Tom Gold. Since 1999, Mr. Gold had been organizing groups of dancers for brief tours abroad, and as his career at NYCB drew to a close, he decided to put more energy into these tours. He envisioned Tom Gold Dance as a core group of dancers who would be based in New York but would perform internationally. His goal was to give these dancers the opportunity to perform new works created specifically for them, as well as established ballets that they might not otherwise have a chance to take on. Tom Gold Dance has since performed in France, Spain, Israel, Bermuda, and Italy.
TOM GOLD
Tom Gold is an internationally known dancer and choreographer. He was a soloist with New York City Ballet for 21 years, where he performed leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, and William Forsythe. In 2002 Susan Stroman created the ballet Double Feature for Mr. Gold. He has performed as a guest artist with THARP!, Donald Byrd the Group, New York City Opera, and many companies throughout the U.S. He can also be seen in the Warner Brothers film version of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, as well as many Live from Lincoln Center telecasts.
Mr. Gold has created works for New York City Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theater, Orlando Ballet, Balanchine on Broadway at Studio 54, An Evening of Tango at the Miller Arts Center, Ballet Academy East, Ballet School of Stamford, The Cuyahoga Youth Ballet, the Manhattan School of Music, and Vassar College and Kykuit. He choreographed a ballet for a “Works and Process at the Guggenheim” program presented at the Miller Arts Center, and created works for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
COMPANY BACKGROUND
2wice Arts Foundation released its first app in July, 2011. Comprised of selected photographs of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company that had appeared in four special Cunningham-dedicated print issues of 2wice over the past decade, the app was designed to be its own Cunningham Event. Its photographs morph image into image, like a dance. The viewer is able to determine the speed of the changing images. Available free of charge on the web, the app also includes videos of former Cunningham dancers Jonah Bokaer and Holley Farmer dancing short selections of Cunningham’s work. To download the Merce Cunningham Event App for the iPad and for an overview of its contents, go to http://www.2wice.org
Advances in technology made possible the greater sophistication of “Fifth Wall,” 2wice’s second app, which was released last June. With choreographer/dancer Jonah Bokaer performing inside a specially created box scaled to the dimensions of the iPad screen, the dance could be reframed in multiple ways by its viewer, giving the illusion of multiple dances taking place simultaneously, or one dance with multiple points of view. Viewers can shift the sequence of events, eliminate or add images. Another jump in technology allowed “DOT DOT DOT” to incorporate scenic changes and the multiplication of the same image in different spaces. “Fifth Wall” and “DOT DOT DOT” are both available through the App Store for the iPad for $.99.
PATSY TARR is the Founder and President of the 2wice Arts Foundation. She currently serves as the Producer of all 2wice Apps. Past affiliations: Board member of the Nikolais/Louis Foundation, David Gordon Pickup Company, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Dance Theater Workshop, Founder and President Dance Ink Foundation, Cunningham Dance Foundation, The Film Society of Lincoln Center. Current affiliations: Vice Chair Chez Bushwick, Trustee, Fondazione Bogliasco, Trustee, Central Park Conservancy.
ABBOTT MILLER is a designer and art director, and a partner in the international design studio Pentagram. He has served as Editor and Art Director of 2wice since its inception, collaborating with leading choreographers and photographers on this unique performing and visual arts publication. Prior to 2wice he served as designer of the award-winning quarterly Dance Ink. A retrospective of his design work for 2wice and Dance Ink was held at the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 2010. He studied at the Cooper Union in New York and later founded the multidisciplinary studio Design/ Writing/Research. Abbott has received numerous honors, including medals from the Society for Publication Designers and three nominations for National Magazine Awards. His work and critical writing has appeared in Eye, Print, I.D. and other publications, and he is the co-author of four books, including the classic Design/Writing/Research: Writing on Graphic Design. A survey of his design work, Abbott Miller: Design and Content, is published by Princeton Architectural Press.
BEN LOUIS NICHOLAS is a filmmaker based in NYC. He studied at NYU’s Tisch Film School with a concentration in directing and cinematography. His work with 2wice Arts Foundation and Pentagram began in 2011 with the Merce Cunningham Event iPad app. In 2012, he collaborated with the same team and international choreographer Jonah Bokaer toward the making of their second app Fifth Wall. Outside of iPad apps, Ben has directed numerous commercials and music videos. He’s also co-founder of The New Heroes, an art zine he publishes with his brother Thomas Nicholas.
TO PURCHASE :
Available through the App Store for the iPad for $.99.
WEBSITE: www.tomgolddance.com
