Doodle And Dance

Throwing shapes with some webcam trickery at Doodle and Dance in Carlisle for the Get Creative Festival with Zoe Leigh-Gadd of Dance Ahead.

Mirrored projected image showing outline of a woman holding a sign saying Get Creative

We created the Digital Doodle for “Doodle and Dance”, an event in Carlisle organised with Zoe Leigh Gadd of Dance Ahead & Up for Arts Cumbria for the Get Creative festival.

Doodle and Dance took over an empty shop unit in The Lanes Shopping Centre for three days with doodling on the walls, windows, floors, with doodle dancing, music, a BBC Radio Cumbria outside broadcast and my Digital Doodle in the changing room.

People often needed a little nudge (and for me to leave the room!) to get dancing and to play with the settings, but once they did they had lot’s of selfie fun with it.

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In this quick sweep of the shop you can just glimpse the entrance to the changing room in the middle. A young girl is just walking in:

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Promo vid for social media:

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Dials with hand written notes next to them

Cardboard captioned control panel. Note to self - only 1 in 100 people read things like this.

Projected screen, control box and speaker in changing room

It fitted nicely in the changing room with all the computer gubbins hidden away behind the screen.

Five people in front of a doodle wall.

Zoe, Jennie and me with two contributors.

Empty shop with people doodling on the walls and floor.

Here’s the main shop showing one of the huge doodle wall and doodle floors.

Girl on father's shoulders drawing on wall.

I took some time out from the Digital Doodle to be a ladder for Dot.

Walls covered in drawings.

We saw lots of people on every day. All walls and floors were covered and many, many digital dances danced.

Three long sheets of painted paper on floor.

That’s a picture done using skateboard wheels on the right!

Doodles of faces.

The variety of doodles were awesome.