DancingQ Performance Event
Prof. Myung Sook Kim and collaborators used advanced networking
technologies to create and host one of the world's most successful
cyber-performances over the Internet. On 9 September 2003, Prof.
Kim led her dance company Nulhui in
a 90-minute performance at the National Theater for Traditional
Performing Arts in Seoul, South Korea. The performance consisted
of four scenes: worshipping the Buddha with six holy presents,
dance of a female monk, crane dance, and a white creek. The
performance was captured using three HD cameras and streamed using Digital Video Transport
System (DVTS). DVTS, a leading Internet
video streaming technology with a bandwidth of 30 Mbps, provides
professional broadcast quality video and audio. The entire 90 minute
performance was also multicast over Internet2's Abilene
Network to several advanced research and education networks of the world
including APAN (Asia-Pacific
Advanced Network).
The third scene "crane dance" especially exemplified the potential
for cyber performance. In that scene, the singer and four musicians playing in
the city Busan were relayed by DVTS over the Internet to the main theater venue
in Seoul some 300 miles away and broadcast onto a transparent screen at the back
of the platform, to which some 15 dancers danced with perfect synchronization. The
relayed and replayed video and audio were so real and natural that even the engineers
and the artists were greatly impressed by the potential of this new cyber media.
The networking and media streaming technology for DancingQ was provided by Korea's ANF (Advanced Network Forum), led by Prof. Dae Young Kim, with assistance from
several engineers in the US, Japan, and Australia.
Archive
Several versions of the DancingQ performance have been archived and are being hosted by the following organizations.
KOREN, Korea
- DVTS 30 Mpbs multicast
- (203.255.255.77) 233.36.54.55/8000/127
Computer System for Education, Japan
- Windows Media Player 1.6 Mpbs
Research Computing at Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
- Windows Media Player 1.6 Mbps
- Videolan Player 6 Mbps (VLC can be obtained here: http://www.videolan.org/)
