Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, in 1982.

Choreographer, dancer and lighting designer. Has presented his own dance productions “The Factbook”, “White is the color of death”, “This was, this appears”, “Totoro”, “Disappear”, “Consagración”, “Zugarramurdi, o el prado del Gran Cabrón”, “Dim” and “Goat” on diferent venues in Amsterdam (NL), Buenos Aires and Santiago del Estero (AR). He also participated as a performer in dance projects, besides his own, by Nora Heilmann, Katerina Bakatsaki, Diana Theocharidis, Doron Hirsch, Koyama Ai, Diana Gadish, Cecilia Gómez and Liliana Toccacelli. His artistic interests cover a very broad range. His choreographic work, characterised by high energy and intense physicality, is based on the exploration of very diverse creative approaches, that range from the abstract and conceptual to the very narrative.

Has designed lighting for concert, dance, opera and theater performances in multiple cities in Argentina, The Netherlands and Belgium. He lectured on “Communication in lighting and dance” and taught as assistant to teacher Arq. Eli Sirlin at IUNA’s Bachelor in Lighting Design (Buenos Aires). He authored the project for exterior decorative lighting to two national monuments and two City Government offices in the City of Pigüé, Argentina.

At present he is a fourth year student of the School for New Dance Development (SNDO; bachelor degree) of the Amsterdam Arts University (AHK). He is a holder of the prestigious Huygens Scholarship granted by the Dutch Ministry of Culture, and has received grants to support his work from Instituto ProDanza (AR) and AHK Fonds Practicum Generale (NL).
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Prince: Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol
PERFORMANCE: July 9th-20th 8PM
additional late show Sat 11PM
PS122

"Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol is Neal Medlyn's fourth and largest to date pop song tragic-comedic extravaganza. Following the success of his Lionel Richie Opera, R. Kelly cabaret, and wild and bloody spin on Phil Collins, Medlyn takes on the purple, hyper- sexualized world of Prince.

Set to many of Prince's biggest hits and infamous b-sides, all performed onstage by a live band, Neal plays out an evening of seduction and intense internal spiritual conflict between two characters: an engaged cab driver and a messianic libertine. Jealousy, band troubles, violence, death, a dream ballet, decent into hell and the eventual transubstantiation of body fluids and redemption all find their place in an operatic and overblown evening of androgynous musical entertainment.

Co-written and with musical arrangements by Tony-Award Nominated and Obie winner Kenny Mellman; Herb of Kiki & Herb and co-creator, with Bridget Everett and Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") of At Least It's Pink. Neal will also be joined by Adrienne Truscott, lauded choreographer and half of the award winning neo-vaudeville duo the Wau Wau Sisters, who will also contribute choreography, and Carmine Covelli.
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http://www.troikaranch.org/performances.html
PERFORMACE: September 12-16, 19-23 7:30PM $20
Wednesday Only Student/Senior Discount: $15
3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich St. at Rector
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How was digital technology integral to the form/content of your piece?
To answer this, I have to explain exactly what the digital technology was in this piece.

A video camera positioned stage left captured the movements of the dancers onstage. This camera fed into a laptop running Isadora with a MIDI manipulator as an additional input device. The video coming in was captured into a buffer in Isadora. A live operator (Hal, who also wrote the Isadora script that made this possible) then “scrubbed?? through this video buffer with the MIDI controller – the equivalent of rewinding and fast-forwarding through the captured video at different rates, pauses and repeating segments forward and backward as he went. A 50/50 mix of live video and scrubbed video were then projected on a screen behind the dancers.

This technology was integral to this piece in a lot of different capacities.
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One Way the Wrong Way - an experiment with dance, video, and music - featured music by Zoë Woodworth and Peter McWade, choreography by Ambika Samarthya, video by Hal Eagar, and performances by Amisha Upadhyaya and Emily Watts.

“From Mourning to Moonlight” performed by Adelka Polak with video by Zoë Woodworth combines Butoh movement & video to retell Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”
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