“Tesseract” is the result of a multi-year collaboration between choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, Princeton Class of 2006, and pioneering filmmaker and video artist Charles Atlas. Mitchell, Reiner, and Atlas are Merce Cunningham Dance Company alumni. 

The full project is an evening-length presentation in two parts: a 3D dance film featuring seven dancers and a live proscenium performance with several dancers. The film offers speculative worlds and alternate possibilities in bold visual environments. The performance includes live-video capture with multiple cameras, mixed live by Atlas and projected into the stage space. Images obscure and reveal moving bodies behind a translucent scrim, magnified and refracted by Atlas. Through collective action the project forges a link between human ritual conjuring and new technological magic, between the past and the future. 

The 3D film will be screened with Charles Atlas in attendance. This event is free. 

At the Princeton Dance Festival on Nov. 20-22, audiences can view excerpts of the live dance performance.