ACTIVE MODULES
Motion capture data from 6 performers across 6 dance traditions, rendered in 3D cyberspace environments with multiple visualization modes.
Award-winning dance film exploring migration, queerness, aging, trauma, and resilience through 12 poems and embodied movement.
Soft robotics and fluidic/haptic sensing in dance performance. ACCS system translating touch into light, sound, and spatial atmosphere.
The studio ecology where ideas become works through rehearsal, writing, iteration, failure, and return.
Premium marketplace for dance, fitness, and wellness. Low screen time, real-world focus, role-based onboarding.
Books, manuscripts, and editorial work on dance, technology, cultural heritage, and movement analysis.
MOD-001 // GMR CYBERSPACE
Three.js-powered 3D visualizations of motion capture data from the Global Movement Research project. Each visualization renders 32 tracked joints at 30fps with multiple display modes: Humanoid, Hologram, Wireframe, Particles, Energy, and Matrix.
SINCLAIR
Nigerian: Bata, Esapkaide, Ekombi, Swange, Ugho
MUSTAPHA
Ghanaian: Adzogbo, Agbadza, Atsiagbekor, Kpanlongo
SUDESH
Sri Lankan: Gajaga Vannama, Kohomba Kankariya, Telme Ruhunu
NADIA
Afro-Cuban: Changó, Kuele Kuele, Yemayá
KATE
Irish/Brazilian: Slip Jig, Sean-nós, Frevo
ANNIE LAURA
Latin: Salsa
MOD-002 // DANCE FILM
Dance film exploring migration, queerness, aging, trauma, and resilience through 12 poems and embodied movement. Winner of 7 awards at Canada Shorts 2025 including Grand Prize (tie), Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Music Score.
CANADA SHORTS 2025
Grand Prize (tie), Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Music Score, Best Documentary, Best Experimental Film, Best International Short (tie)
OTHER SELECTIONS
LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA, Versatility Dance Festival, Austin Dance Festival, ATX Film Festival (Honorable Mention)
DIRECTOR
Nakoa Taggart
PRODUCER
Sinclair Emoghene
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Gabriel Vazquez
CAST
Jalani Miller, Lauren Troyer, Giovanni Ledezma, Sinclair Emoghene
MOD-003 // SOFT ROBOTICS
Exploring soft robotics, fluidic/haptic sensing in dance performance through the "Me Duniya" piece. The ACCS (Affective Choreographic Control System) translates touch intensity into real-time visual and spatial transformations.
HARDWARE LAYER
Soft fluidic pressure sensors, micro-vibration elements, wearable rings
SIGNAL PROCESSING
Intensity, stability, fluctuation feature extraction
AFFECTIVE OUTPUT
Light, projections, spatial audio manipulation
LEAD ARTIST & PI
Sinclair Emoghene
SOFT ROBOTICS
Dr. Lillian Chin
VISUAL DESIGN
Desne Wharton
CHIN LAB
Hrishikesh Sahu, Ava Schraeder
MOD-004 // ARCHIVAL INTELLIGENCE
Transforming frozen dance archives into dynamic, AI-augmented entities capable of ethical reasoning with embodied data. The framework proposes Motion Archive, Living Archive, and Thinking Archive models as alternatives to static preservation.
MOTION ARCHIVE
Static preservation of movement data
LIVING ARCHIVE
Dynamic, evolving collections with community input
THINKING ARCHIVE
AI-augmented ethical reasoning with embodied data
NATIONAL
U.S. Library of Congress, Association for Cultural Equity
ACADEMIC
Mount Holyoke College, University of Maryland
MOD-005 // PLATFORM
Premium marketplace for dance, fitness, and wellness with low screen time and real-world focus. Built with React Native featuring premium UI, role-based onboarding, and community-first design.
FRONTEND
React Native
STATUS
Beta Development
MOD-006 // WRITING
ROUTLEDGE 2023
Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences
UNDER REVIEW
Global Movement Research: Dance Technology and Process Documentation (~70,000 words, Routledge Taylor & Francis)
ESI PRESS 2026
Shaping Southern Shifts: Provocations in/through Laban Bartenieff Movement Studies
PODCAST
Dancing in the World (8 episodes)
CURATION
DanceFilmmaking.com