This project introduces cultural content specifically for the iPhone (and iPad and iPod) transforming these short dance movies into an App. The Baryshnikov Arts Center named Mr. Daniels an artist in residence in 2009 (and 2011) in order to create these pieces. All are short, 3-5 minutes in length. The first version of the App includes: Carmen DeLavallade (dancing to Sondheim’s “Children and Art” and sung by Maria Friedman), Regina Larkin (to an original score by Gerald Busby in “Homage to Fellini”), and Megan Williams (to a score by Bill Conti). Christine Redpath dances the same dance to two different pieces of music: one by Erwin Schulhoff, another by Amy Beach. Deborah Jowitt dances and speaks four love notes written between Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein.

A planned update for the App will include dances by: Margie Gillis (Music by Frideric Handel), Molissa Fenley (to an original score by Gerald Busby); Stephen Pier and Miki Orihara (to a score by Arvo Part), and Risa Steinberg (to Purcell). Other dancers and dance movies will be added in 2011.

Click here for an edited clip from our showing at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on January 21, 2010, along with clips from each dance.