This GarageBand-like dance app lets you remix choreography from the New York City Ballet. Justin Peck choreographed eight 1 minute dances for Passe-Partout, an app Abbott Miller designed for 2wice. He then performed and filmed them. Composer Aaron Severini also wrote an original piece for it in eight layers.
Passe-Partout allows you to create your own movement piece based on Peck's moves on your iPad. According to Abbott, the dance app intends to narrow in on the intersection between dance and design. By tapping and tilting the tablet's touch screen, you can re-arrange the different dance moves and music to create a new piece that you can play back and share, if desired.
While the ballet can be seen as an elitist activity, the $1 app brings Peck's choreography to anybody with a dollar to spare.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Dance Education Apps
- Opportunity for app developers to create more interactive apps that remix and teach choreography from professional dance companies and educators.
- AR Dance Performances
- Opportunity to expand on this concept and create augmented and virtual reality performances that allow users to interact with dance pieces and choreography in a new way.
- Collaborative Dance Creation Tools
- Opportunity to create more tools and apps that allow for collaborative dance creation, remixing, and sharing across different mediums and platforms.
Where This Applies
- Performing Arts
- Opportunity for performing arts companies and organizations to partner with tech companies to create new and innovative ways to engage audiences with dance performances using technology.
- Edtech
- Opportunity for educational technology companies to partner with professional dance companies and educators to create interactive and engaging apps that teach choreography and dance techniques to students of all levels.
- Mobile App Development
- Opportunity for app developers to create new apps and tools that allow users to create, remix, and share their own dance performances using professional choreography and music.
