5 SOLDIERS: The Body is the Front Line by Rosie Kay Dance Company is a contemporary dance piece that was commissioned for last year’sInternational Dance Festival Birmingham. It toured to good reviews and was especially well received by the military.
Rosie Kay received funding through the Arts Council’s Digital Content Development programme to do something interestingly digital with it and 5 SOLDIERS – Interactive Film is the result.
Head to the website and you can watch the ‘director’s cut’ of the piece the whole way through or, at any point, you can click the name of the camera angle to continue watching the piece from one of 13 different viewpoints (including each dancer’s point of view).
Have a play with it and, if you reckon it’s interesting, please use the Twitter and Facebook buttons at the bottom of the page to let others know.
I should say that this is something that Meshed Media (my company) has been involved in, along with Aquila TV and Rosie Kay Dance Company. I’ve written more about it on the Meshed Media blog and freelance web developer Daniel Davies has written about his involvement in the technical side of the project too.