Dance Behind The Screen; Process, Production, Social Media

On this episode your host Martheya interviews Dat Nguyen the founder of MotionVivid. Dat Nguyen a native from Vietnam, is a choreographer, photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist previously based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his BFA degree in Dance at Sam Houston State University and his MFA degree in Modern Dance with a Screendance Certificate at the University of Utah. As a choreographer, Dat employs collage as a way to tell his story and heighten the somatic experience/understanding of his complexed identity. As a visual artist, Dat loves exploring different media/technologies and their often intangible relationship with dance. This allows him to expand his artistic landscapes and invigorate his approaches to performances. He founded MotionVivid™ in 2014 as a dance/multimedia company to further his research and broaden his artistic practice to local communities that he is serving. On this episode, we talk about how to stay “woke” in present times (the influence of spectacle on death, politics, a