KEARNEY — Noelle Bohaty, assistant professor of dance at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, understands the need to incorporate video technology into her art.
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The green screen allows images to be superimposed over video of dancers. Bohaty, who teaches dance at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, feels that a strong background in technology helps her students make interesting artistic choices.
“These days it seems like you have to know something about video to get by,” she said of creating dance. “Livestreaming was a very big thing this year since we couldn’t have live, in-person audiences. That was a big learning curve and pretty much a roller coaster, but we did figure that out between our fall semester and our concert in March.”
The March livestreamed concert, “RESET,” received more than 500 views.
“The possibilities of outreach and recruitment makes a huge difference,” Bohaty said. “People in Texas and everywhere else can see the work we’re doing here in Nebraska. That really puts us on a more even playing field than some of the larger dance programs.”
On April 19, Bohaty and Emma Newman worked at the Museum of Nebraska Art to install a green screen and adjust Tricaster video equipment that allowed them to superimpose images of dancers over an underwater scene. They also included the floating art installation by Omaha artist Susan Knight called “Core Sampling.”
Noelle Bohaty adjusts the computer video software on the Tricaster system while student Emma Newhouse looks on. The pair prepared to record a dance piece while at the Museum of Nebraska Art.
The piece features eight dancers and can be seen on the UNK.edu website starting Friday.
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