Choreographer filming new project

Quantum physics, dance and film have combined for an exciting and boundary-pushing project for Dunedin choreographer Daniel Belton.

His latest dance-film project, Line Dancers, is being created with the 12-month, $65,000 Creative New Zealand Choreographic Fellowship he was awarded last year.

After developing the concept and choreography over the past five months, filming began last week with a team of seven dancers, including two from the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

Following post production, including composition work by Anthony Richie, a series of short films will be released on the internet in September.

These would be freely available to the public and would interest anyone interested in art, dance or science.

Installation art exhibitions would also be held and Mr Belton hoped the Dunedin Public Art Gallery would hold the premiere.

He described the work as an exploration of a sense of feeling and seeing, quantum physics, spatial dimensions, and the human body through dance.

"The dancers are equations from the body that expand and contract into pockets of space."

Inspiration was drawn from the Bauhaus movement and artist Paul Klee, who once said: "One eye sees, the other feels", he said.

Mr Belton has an international reputation in dance film and, with wife Donnine Harrison, founded Good Company Arts, which is known for its approach to dance combining performing arts with digital media and film.