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(Historical Movement Archive and Studio overview video)

The Historical Movement Archive and Studio

The Historical Movement Archive is dedicated to the research, analysis and preservation of previously unavailable movement knowledge, and to making that knowledge available to researchers, historians, and movement artists around the world through state-of-the-art motion capture technology.


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Historical Movement Archive

Research Proof of Concept

This multi-faceted research program is the result of a collaboration involving the Folger Shakespeare Library and Brad Alan Waller. The Historical Movement Archive is dedicated to research, analysis, and preservation of previously unavailable movement knowledge.



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Historical Movement Archive

Research Program

The Historical Movement Archive Research Program is an international group of historical movement scholars, teachers, and performers that are working together to preserve their life’s work in historical martial arts, historical dance, and cultural movement art forms using interactive serious gaming platforms and emerging 3D teaching and live performance technologies.



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HOPE BEAR GARDENS

Research & Design

The Historical Movement Archive Motion Capture Studio will be created to serve as a research facility where the movement art forms of the past and present can be explored and preserved through state-of-the-art motion capture technology.

 


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HOPE BEAR GARDENS

Digital Performance Space

The Historical Movement Archive Research Facility will develop the technical ability to serve as an online broadcast and live performance space, where historical movement research can be showcased and explored in performances, lectures, classes, workshops, and other events.



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Historical Movement Archive

16th Century Footwork In Unity 3D

We are taking a 16th Century movement system from Giacomo de Grassi’s Italian treatise of 1570, and implementing that footwork system into the Unity game environment using an ancient movement rubric and a great deal of math.



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Historical Movement Archive

Avatar Creation & Development

The Historical Movement Archive Motion Capture Studio will be created to serve as a research facility where the movement art forms of the past and present can be explored and preserved through state-of-the-art motion capture technology.

 


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GMU Interdisciplinarity

The Historical Movement Archive, Research Program and Library involves the collaboration of many national and international, cultural and educational institutions, creating an international interdisciplinarity of movement and performance artists, teachers, researchers, and historians. This work will help in the preservation of the cultural heritage of a society.


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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”


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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.


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