This project means to explore the impact of intimate, emotive dance performance on the sometimes sterile art of architectural projection. The resulting mix is a startingly resonant exploration of the human experience with all the punch of larger-than-life spectacle. The Awakening illustrates through metaphor and movement how ambition, so often seen as critical to success, can just as easily drive us away from everything we need to flourish. It’s about all the ways we’ve distanced ourselves from the natural world and a culture that makes us increasingly reticent to turn inward when there may be no other way to find that which we most desperately seek.
Created by Light Harvest Studio
Written and Directed by Ryan Uzilevsky
Executive Produced by LUMA Festival
Lead Animators Tom Bourguet Josh Slaby
Compositing and Editing Ryan Uzilevsky
Choreographer and Co - Writer Alison Clancy
With Performances by Jay Don Chelsea Hemsworth Lauren Stucko Alison Clancy
Sound Designer Brandon Wollcott
MoCap Technical Director Todd Bryant
MoCap Studio Assistant
Asha Veeraswamy
Character Animator's Joe Mandia Han Hu
Additional Modeling Bill Mata Alexander Allaux
Illustrator Adrian Rasmussen
Production Assistant Mike Miller
Editing and Color Grading Tice Learner
Music: Laurie Anderson - Oh Superman (Jashua Hagen Remix)