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Different art forms such as paintings, writings, photographs, and even videos found throughout history have been preserved to ensure that future generations can experience the past. However, no one has been able to truly archive historical movement as technologies, such as motion capture, have not been refined enough until today. The Historical Movement Archive was created for that exact purpose, to preserve historical movement as it should be: in motion. Everything from cultural martial arts, and dance will be preserved and made available to researchers and the curious alike at our facility, and digitally, through motion capture broadcasting technologies, and new practices in digital archiving.
2019 Research Summit
Learn about the topics discussed at our research summit at the Workhouse Art Center.
Crowdfunding Campaign
We have recently begun a crowdfunding campaign to fund more of our historic research.
Tang Dynasty Playhouse
Learn all about our new playhouse 3D environment from the Tang Dynasty of China.
The Hope Playhouse, designed using archived texts and pictures from its time to accurately size and recreate where Shakespeare’s plays were once viewed.
One of the ingresses of the Hope Playhouse, recreated in 3D from archived documents
The avatar that is used to portray all movements that have been taken by our motion capture equipment.
The Durer avatar in one of the clothing sets we have created.
An example of a motion captured animation being played using our textured avatar in our, in development, 3D viewer.
The Durer avatar, rendered inside the Hope Bear Gardens Digital Performance space.
The Hope Playhouse, textured in our 3D viewer.
One of the versions of the updated Hope Playhouse.
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For the first time in history, modern technology is offering us the ability to preserve the movement depicted in these books and manuscripts so that it can be preserved, shared, and studied all over the world. It is a ‘Gutenberg moment’ for historical movement and movement research.”
Brad Alan Waller
Support the Archive
Imagine an international group of historical movement scholars, teachers, and performers working together to preserve their life’s work in historical martial arts, historical dance, and cultural movement art forms, using developing motion capture and gaming platform technologies.
This is what we strive to do at the Historical Movement Archive. Your generous contribution will help support the archive moving forward.
