A new project, created by me (Nicole Perry), AI Engineer Pedram Nimreezi, and Filmmaker Ed Talavera, has been selected as a Doris Duke Foundation Finalist for the Performing Arts Technologies Lab grant!
About our Project:
It is the goal of Totentanz to increase ownership and creative agency of choreographers and dancers, while at the same time increasing access to dance performances.
This project proposes to protect the creator(s), performance(s), and the performer(s), by providing tools and a platform for storing and sharing videos of choreographers who do not wish to have their works available for AI training.
This powerful combination of technological access and protection allows choreographers to promote their work, and reach audiences worldwide, while at the same time upholding their creative agency and protecting their intellectual property.
While being a finalist is not a guarantee of funding, it’s still pretty cool. It means the nation’s biggest arts funder thought that our idea was really worthwhile. In fact, they received 745 applications and only 40 are finalists! Stay tuned for news from me, and Momentum Stage, who is acting as our fiscal sponsor and nonprofit partner, in September when final decisions are made!