Choreographer Brian Brooks has been developing Viewpoint, a project that uses groundbreaking, patented technology and software to stream 3D video in real-time. While performing, a dancer’s image can be seen simultaneously through a mobile device in another location, magically overlaying the dancer into the viewer’s surroundings.

This technique of Augmented Reality anchors the dancer in place, allowing the viewer to move freely around the image, watching from any angle and perspective imagined. This digital window allows audiences to see dance as never before – up close, underneath, above – with dancers positioned in impossible places – your coffee table, a shelf in your refrigerator, the palm of your hand.

The technology pioneers at FormaVision have partnered with Choreographer Brian Brooks since 2019 to invent software that captures the complex, quixotic dancer in three dimensions, immediately compressing huge amounts of data and instantly streaming it over wi-fi, available to anyone in the world with internet access.

Brooks travels with a compact, mobile studio, featuring infrared cameras that quickly circle a dancer, turning any dance space, gallery, or classroom into a production studio.  In certain instances, audiences are invited to the film site itself, able to place the streaming image directly next to the actual dancer, witnessing duets between live dancers and their avatars. The position and scale of the moving image can be constantly adjusted, allowing for the dance partner to be miniature or as tall as the actual building.