CANE
a responsive environment dancework
Inspired by Jean Toomer's experimental 1923 text of the Harlem Renaissance, CANE explores memories of African American sharecropping held by a technologically-devised canefield. Created by technologists, dancers, and visual artists, CANE suggests possibilities of shimmering mediated histories mixed in real-time via a specially-constructed responsive environment.
Conceived by Thomas F. DeFrantz, performed by DeFrantz and Regina Rocke, Visual Design by Eto Oro, Lighting and Programming by Edwina Portocarrero, Music by Tara Rodgers, Additional Programming and Sound Discoveries by Jung-Eun Kim and Peter Whincop.
workshop premiere march, 2009
Kresge Little Theater @ MIT