WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.000 music 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:35.000 music continues throughout performance 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:44.000 music ends 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:48.000 applause 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:50.000 What I need you guys to do - you guys are gonna come over here, 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:56.000 and Andrew's gonna bring out the props. So 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:60.000 yep. We're gonna make our own electroluminescent dance. So 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:04.000 here's the idea. We're going to make a stick man. Everyone 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:08.000 know what a stick man looks like? Yes? Make a circle, yes? 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:12.000 And you make the two body parts for the arms and legs and torso. 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:16.000 So here's our stick person right here. Who's gonna be the torso? 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:20.000 Torso right there. 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:24.000 Who's gonna be the head? Right there. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:28.000 Alright, make the head for us. Put it together. Who's gonna be one of the 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:32.000 arms? How about an arm right here? 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:36.000 Who's gonna be another arm? 'Cause we have two. How about you? 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:40.000 So that means, what are you guys gonna be? 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:44.000 Legs. Alright, come on over. 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:48.000 Let's put it together. Head, right here.. 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:52.000 Make the head up here for us. Come on down so we can see you in the light. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:56.000 There we go. Head right here. Torso, come on over. 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:60.000 Add the torso to the head, right there. 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:04.000 My arm, where's my arm? One here. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:08.000 You gotta hold it, you gotta stay here and hold it. Yeah, you 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:12.000 hold it. Yep, exactly. And you hold the arm. And what about the 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:16.000 legs? Hop on down there and hold the legs for us. You can hang out right 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.000 there for us. You got the mustache. Alright. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.000 So. So let's have you step 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.000 to the side. Now, let me help you guys evaluate my prototype. 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:32.000 Something weird about my prototype. What's wrong about my prototype? It's 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:36.000 too small, isn't it? Yes? Way, way too small. No way you guys can 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:40.000 see that from back there. It's probably hard to see it even from right there. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:44.000 Let's get rid of that prototype. We'll learn from that. Let's bring it back over here. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:48.000 And now let's do this. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:52.000 Let's say if we make it a little bit bigger, and we make 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.000 this 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:60.000 to be, I'll give you this part here... 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:08.000 Yep. 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:12.000 All the way over to here, and you hold this part here. There we go. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:16.000 What about if this were a leg? 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.000 Too big! Exactly, you guys 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:24.000 are right, you guys are on it. Alright? So now, two prototypes 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:28.000 let's see if we can do even better. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:32.000 Where's our head? Who's our tallest guy? Right over here; come on. 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:36.000 Here. Be our head right here. And what do I have here? 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:40.000 Torso. Who's my torso person? How about you? Torso. 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:44.000 Here we go; why don't you stand back there right behind the head? Stand right to 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:48.000 the side here, and you can go right behind. Right under...there 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.000 you go. Right under there. And where's my arm? My right arm 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:56.000 which will be this side over here, and hold here. 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:60.000 Come on over; gonna attach it to the torso right here; come around to the back. 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.000 So that way...exactly. And who's my other 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:08.000 arm? Over here? Actually let me have you be a leg. Let me have you be an arm. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:12.000 Right over here. Why don't you come over and be an arm for us. Here. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:16.000 Yeah, we're gonna attach it to the torso, so just one hand to attach right 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:20.000 there and keep the wire facing the audience. Leg! 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:24.000 One right here. Attach it right down here. 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:28.000 Come around to the back though, so that the audience can see 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:32.000 what's in front of you. There you go, you can hold it. 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:36.000 You're gonna hold the leg there. And come around to the back here. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:40.000 There you go. How about this? Any better? Yes. 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:44.000 Alright, let's make a dance with this. Here we go. So we have our arms and legs. 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:48.000 We want to keep it attached. We wanna move the whole thing over to the right. 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:52.000 Ready? We're gonna go together. One, two, three, let's go to the right. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.000 Keep the body together. There you go. 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:60.000 Go to the left. One, two, three 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:04.000 going to the left. But we're gonna need you to scoot down 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:08.000 a little bit; squat because you're gonna block the arm. Yep, there you go. 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:12.000 And stop there. Let's make him or her dance. Ready? 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:16.000 And go. Move the body parts together, but keep them attached. 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:20.000 Make sure it stays attached! There we go, let's jump together. One, two 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:24.000 three. Jump in the air together! Not quite - oh, no! Not you guys! 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.000 Make this guy - or this person right here jump 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:32.000 together. Ready? One, two, three - slowly up in the air, slowly up in the air. 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:36.000 One more time. We're gonna go up slowly. One, two, three - go up slowly 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:40.000 all together. Stay connected, and come down. All the way to the floor. 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:44.000 All the way to the floor. Do the splits on the floor. 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:48.000 Ahh, there you go. There you go. 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:52.000 And keep that arm a little higher there. That's it, and this arm 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:56.000 a little higher here. And now make them dance on the floor, in the splits. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:60.000 And go. Make the body dance - oh! You gotta keep them together, it's tricky. 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:04.000 Make him dance on the floor. Make those legs go up and down as well. 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:08.000 But keep the arms facing out this way. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:12.000 There we go. Alright! Now...and stop. 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:16.000 So now let's put the whole dance together. Start from the stop. One, 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:20.000 two, three. Come over this way. You other three are gonna go with Andrew to the 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:24.000 left. So separate the body parts. That's right, you can separate them now. Yes. 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:28.000 You can separate now. Come on over this way. 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:32.000 You're gonna start all the way over here. 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:36.000 All the way over here. So 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:40.000 the head's gonna go first. So we're gonna keep the head, and I'll demonstrate 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:44.000 for you. We're gonna keep the head. We're gonna make it dance all the way in 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:48.000 head first, as it dances all the way in and stops right on the 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:52.000 center here. The torso is gonna come in at the same time. Ah 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:56.000 but you have to keep the wire facing forward, because this is what the 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:60.000 audience is gonna see. You're gonna make that dance; you're gonna stand right 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:04.000 in front of the head, come right here. Stand right in front of the head, there. Then 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:08.000 the arm's gonna come next. So let's practice that now. You go to your part 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:12.000 here. And when you're moving the body part, make sure that you're using one 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:16.000 hand here, on the bottom, and the other hand like this. 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.000 the wire. Ready? Head and torso go! 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:28.000 One, two, three. Very nice. And lock together. 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:32.000 Click! Legs, go. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:36.000 One, legs go. Make those legs dance! And click together. 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:40.000 Boom! Nice. Arms, go. Oh! Make sure it's facing out. 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:44.000 This way, there you go. Perfect. And connect. 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:48.000 Boom! Then we dance in place. Other way. 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:52.000 Yep. And then we dance in place. Ready, and go. Dance in place. 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:56.000 And then we're going to go up and come 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:60.000 over this way to the right. 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:04.000 And down. And then up, and go to the 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:08.000 left. Go to the left, back to the center. 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:12.000 And down. And dance. One 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:16.000 Split! And when you hear the explosion 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:20.000 in the music, you're gonna go back to your original starting place. 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:24.000 Let's pretend like we hear the explosion now. One, two 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:28.000 three. Pow! And then go back to your original place - oh! - but keep the 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:32.000 arms and legs facing the audience. Keep the body parts. Let's turn it 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:36.000 on, let's do the dance. Here we go. One! 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:40.000 Two! And you 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:44.000 got yours on already. There you go. Alright. 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:48.000 Here we go. One, two, three. Are we ready? Here we go! 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:52.000 Let's turn out the lights out first. 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:56.000 Let's try it with music. Ready? And sound go. 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:60.000 music 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.000 And legs, go! Boom! Legs go! 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:08.000 music 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:12.000 Arms! 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:16.000 And dance in place. And dance in place. 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.000 And let's go the right. Ready? To the right! 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.000 Go! Up! To the right! 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.000 music 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:32.000 Keep 'em dancing. Arms and legs go up and down. And let's go up and to the left. 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:36.000 music 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:40.000 Jump in the air! 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.000 And down. Do the splits. 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:48.000 Keep him dancing. 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:52.000 Keep the legs moving. Get ready! 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.000 music 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:60.000 music 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:04.000 music ends 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:08.000 Explode, go to the side. Give them a big round of applause, everyone. 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:12.000 Very nice. applause 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:16.000 music 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:20.000 music 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:24.000 music 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:28.000 music 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:32.000 music 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:36.000 music continues throughout performance 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:24.000 music fades out, applause 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:28.000 So all the things that were happening, the dancers were 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:32.000 turning the suits on and off themselves. So they have a switch that they were 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:36.000 turning, they click it on, click it off. Just the same way that when 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:40.000 the students were up here they turned the lights on and off. In this next dance 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:44.000 that we're gonna do for you, we used the computer to wirelessly communicate 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:48.000 with the suits, so that they turn the wire, and they turn it off 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:52.000 and it allows us to have actually two costumes overall. 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:56.000 On one person. So depending on what lights turn on, 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:60.000 you'll see either an owl, or you'll see a serpent. 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.000 Okay? So two costumes on one. All the wires overlayed 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:08.000 on top of each other. It's probably about three hundred feet of wire over 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:12.000 maybe a thousand connections or so. And the computer does all the work for 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:16.000 us; it turns it on and off. So that way we can have one arm floating, or just a 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:20.000 head on and a head can be floating, and we can create all kinds of interesting 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.000 illusions. But how does this all work? Well, this is called electroluminescent wire 00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:28.000 and you've seen many, many examples of it in the dances that you've just seen. 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:32.000 It's copper wire, that is coated with a plastic coating that has different colors 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:36.000 on it. And the copper wire is wrapped with two small corona 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:40.000 wire, and it's coated in what's called Phosphorous. It's a substance that glows 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:44.000 when you put an electrical current to it. But it works in a certain way. 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:48.000 It'll use a battery as charge, but 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.000 it has to translate that current, or change it, to an alternating 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:56.000 current, because the battery is what's called 'direct current'. And the EL wire likes 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:60.000 alternating current, and this little guy right here, the driver 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.000 translates, or changes, the direct current to 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:08.000 alternating current. But we also use the computer to control the EL 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:12.000 wire. So look for the ways in which the costumes turn on and off 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:16.000 and just know that the computer is telling the wire when to turn on 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:20.000 and when to turn off. Okay? So we'll do this last dance 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:24.000 that is called 'The Owl and the Serpent'. 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:32.000 music 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:36.000 music 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:40.000 music continues throughout performance 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:36.000 music ends 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:40.000 So now you can see the costumes. If you look closely at the costumes 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.000 you'll see a mix of wires. You can hardly tell what's what, because there's so 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:48.000 much wire and so many different things on their costumes. But let me just tell you this: 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:52.000 bunch of wire, a battery pack, and a little device that allows the computer to talk 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:56.000 to the wire to tell it when to turn on and off. So that's how we created 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:60.000 these costumes for you. So I'll let the dancers go, and then 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:04.000 I'll see if you have any questions for me. Any questions for me? 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:08.000 How long did it take to make the costumes? That's a great question. The first 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:12.000 prototype probably took about, oh, maybe a hundred hours or so to make the first 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:16.000 prototype. Actually more like two hundred. And 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:20.000 then once I figured out what needed to happen, I was able to make those 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:24.000 Cause it probably takes about a hundred and fifty hours per costume to make. 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:28.000 Because here's the one thing I learned when making a prototype. What happens if you keep bending a wire over and over 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:32.000 again, what does it do? It breaks. Exactly. So whenever I put wire along 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:36.000 the joints right here, because the dancers are doing this a lot, you can guess what happened. 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:40.000 It broke a lot. Exactly. So I had to figure out that, and again, that prototype 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:44.000 helped me to do that. I had to figure that out using a prototype. Other questions. 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:48.000 How do we make it so the wire doesn't heat up? EL wire is very cool to the touch. 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:52.000 If you guys have LEDs at all, think about your phone, the lights in your phone, 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:56.000 LED lights, they don't get hot like these lights right here. 00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:60.000 You're right. If we used lights like this, incandescent lights, they would burn up. 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.000 If they had that many lights on them. How about right over here? Question here. 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:08.000 How long did it take us to get it all right? Well it's always a process. That's a great 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:12.000 question. Well, we're always looking at what happens 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:16.000 and even today, I saw something I need to fix. I'm always looking at something 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:20.000 and saying, 'oh, I could do better with that right there. I need to fix that problem 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.000 right there. I could do better'. So it's always an ongoing process. Fixing it, 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:28.000 always trying to make it better. Great question. How about you 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:32.000 right here? How do we stick the wire to the costume? We used to sew it on at first 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:36.000 but that took so much time. Then I got smarter, and I had a woman who actually 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:40.000 made costumes, and she said 'why don't you use a net?' and we zip-tied the wire 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.000 on. So we make a web costume out of netting, and then we 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:48.000 just zip-tie the wire on and that made it much, much faster. Good question. 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:52.000 We can take one more question. Way in the back. How do we get the idea 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:56.000 for that? Another great question. If you think about normal theatrical productions, 00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:60.000 normally we have to have a hundred or so lights. And we thought whenever 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.000 we tour we have to carry lights with us if the theater doesn't have lights, or if we 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:08.000 go to a school, you probably wouldn't have the kind of lighting that we 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:12.000 normally use. So we thought, wouldn't it be great if we could make it so that we 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:16.000 didn't have to have lights when we travel? What if the costumes lit up and all 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:20.000 we had to do was turn out the lights? And so that was the idea that 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:24.000 that we tried to say, how can we make it so that the dancers 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:28.000 can have costumes that are self-illuminating? So we don't have to carry lights 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:32.000 with us whenever we perform. And that's how we came up with the idea. 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:36.000 That's a good question. So the idea, once again, is that this engineering design 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:40.000 process that we use, that an engineer uses to create a phone, to create cars, 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:44.000 to create all kinds of things, we use that same process as artists, to create 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:48.000 the costumes, to create the different theatrical effects that you see us do. 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:52.000 Okay? We imagine what we want to do, and then we create a prototype, 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:56.000 try it out, test it out, like you ate those cookies, 00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:60.000 test it out, see if it works, and if it doesn't work, then we go back and 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.000 we redesign it, and then we test it again, and we keep doing that process 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:08.000 until we get it right. So this is the same process that you can use, whenever 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:12.000 you create something that you'd like to make, no matter what it is. Thank you very much 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:16.000 for coming out to Western Oregon University. We very much enjoyed performing 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:20.000 for you. Have a great, great rest of your day. Thank you. 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:23.000 applause