Students Build Stories Through Movement and Multimedia in Fall Atelier Course

Students climb over chairs in slow motion in a large classroom

The 11 students in "Moving Images: Mime and Multimedia" mime a slow run to get into place for the final class performance titled Memory: Movement and Media. Photo by Jon Sweeney

A dancer casts a shadow on a projection during a performance

Gigi Schadrack performs Reflection. Photo by Jon Sweeney

A dancer pulls back a curtain revealing a mirror reflecting her image

Gigi Schadrack performs Reflection. Photo by Jon Sweeney

Michael Garcia and Gigi Schadrack perform Reflection. Photo by Jon Sweeney

Movement artist and visiting lecturer Bill Bowers shines a light on a performance. Photo by Jon Sweeney

A student half shrouded in darkness looks over their shoulder

Liora Nasi runs the projector for the performance of Reflection. Photo by Jon Sweeney

A performer mimes using a curling iron in front of an audience in shadows

Grace Anne McCooey performs Object Performance. Photo by Jon Sweeney

A performer breaks down in tears on stage

Grace Anne McCooey performs Object Performance. Photo by Jon Sweeney

A performer pretends to be a passenger in a pretend car being driven by another performer

Viulka de Jesus Cruz and John Venegas Juarez perform Luna's Neon Nightmare: The Horrors of Migration. Photo by Jon Sweeney

Two performers, one wearing a scary mask pretend to fight on stage

Viulka de Jesus Cruz and John Venegas Juarez perform Luna's Neon Nightmare: The Horrors of Migration during a Princeton Atelier course showing. Photo by Jon Sweeney

Two performers interact with a projection behind them

Viulka de Jesus Cruz and John Venegas Juarez perform Luna's Neon Nightmare: The Horrors of Migration. Photo by Jon Sweeney

A performer is washed in colorful lights

Theo Knoll, Hannah Ulman and Sophia Colmenares perform Echoes of Yesterday. Photo by Jon Sweeney

Performers who are reenacting a crash cast shadows on a prjection of static

Theo Knoll, Hannah Ulman and Sophia Colmenares perform Echoes of Yesterday. Photo by Jon Sweeney

Performers cast large shadows behind themselves from a projection of blue light

Theo Knoll, Hannah Ulman and Sophia Colmenares perform Echoes of Yesterday. Photo by Jon Sweeney

Students in the fall 2023 Princeton Atelier course, “Moving Images: Mime and Multimedia” performed their final pieces on memory, using long established mime techniques and multimedia at the Memory: Movement and Media event on December 6 for an audience from the University community. Movement artist Bill Bowers, multi-disciplinary extended reality artist LaJuné McMillian, and director Scott Illingworth led the class in building stories through movement and embodied technologies.