Jinn-Ginnaye is an exploration of movement in place.
Jinn-Ginnaye is a collection of dance pieces exploring issues of bringing western dance performance to the United Arab Emirates, where local modesty laws influence how bodies can be shown in public. Using video compositing, motion capture, and virtual reality techniques, the piece removes the body of the dancer but leaves behind both the dance and traces of the desert in which it was created. Jinn-Ginnaye asks how cultural constraints can lead to new forms of creation and expression, and how we can present Dance, without a dancer.
The expansion of the work has pushed development of Norwich University of the Arts’ Immersive Visualisation and Simulation Lab. The project required the development of completely new forms of 360 virtual cameras within Epic’s Unreal Engine. This virtual camera is the result of work from 6 programmers and 2 AI agents. It is in the process of being shared with Epic to become a tool within Unreal Engine, and distributed worldwide.
