Angels of the North

MultiSim’s Director, Claudia Mazzà has been collaborating with dancer and choreographer Freddie Garland, Tenfoot Dance Company, in her continuing project ‘Women’s Movement 100: Angels of the North’.

Women's Movement 100: Angels of the North
Women’s Movement 100: Angels of the North by Freddie Garland

They worked together to create a filmed performance about women’s suffrage, emancipation and health for the University of ºù«Ӱҵ’s .

Enjoy the and .

Data captured at Insigneo’s Motion Capture and Virtual Reality Laboratory from some of the dancers involved in the Women’s Movement 100 can be seen as delicate, abstracted moving dots and tracing lines superimposed over portions of the film, reflecting the movements used by the dancers in the film.

Women’s Movement 100: Angels of the North

100 women from local communities and further afield took part in this project, which gives artistic form to the patterns and waves of the women’s movement over the last century, as explored in Department of History Professor, Julie Gottlieb’s research. Women’s Movement 100 refers to both political and physical movement.

The biomechanics of the female physical movement is an important component of MultiSim’s research. Freddie and some of her dancers started to explore their choreography in the motion capture laboratory with MultiSim and Mobilise-D researchers: Erica Montefiori, Kirsty Scott and Tecla Bonci.

Early results of this collaboration were presented at the University of ºù«Ӱҵ’s 2020 Festival of the Mind in September this year.

Read more about the collaboration.

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