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Tesseract by Charles Atlas / Rashaun Mitchell / Silas Riener Artists Charles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener presented part of their collaboration Tesseract — originally a two-part work consisting of a 3-D dance film and a live performance with video capture and projection. Tesseract is the second part, a live performance for six dancers and multiple cameras, in which Atlas captures and manipulates footage in real-time and then projects it back onto the stage. Tesseract superimposes the space of dance with live cinematic production, rendering a choreographic analogue to the 4-D cube from which the piece takes its title. Images obscure and reveal moving bodies behind a translucent scrim, magnified and refracted by Atlas. Through collective action we forge a link between human ritual conjuring and new technological magic, between the past and the future. 133