Author Archives: Boris Willis

I am pleased to announce my participation in Conjuring Presence at Fenwick Gallery on the campus of George Mason University. I worked with Poet Vivick Narayanan on a piece we call Encounters. It uses poems we wrote, paired with Unreal Engine’s Metahumans and Replica Studio’s AI voice actors. “Conjuring Presence” October 20-December 11 2021, online […]

Originally set to premiere in summer 2020… LENS has been rescheduled for Saturday, September 18, 2021, as part of the Kennedy Center’s National Dance Day programming at The REACH.  LENS is a series of four movement-based installations each viewed through different technological means created/produced by Ben Levine in collaboration with over two dozen artists from the DMV […]

When I was a kid I dreamed of being on the radio. I loved listening to Ken Nordine on NPR, the sometimes odd music programs and the old and not so old radio dramas. Now my dream has come true. In this interview I sing, recite a poem and talk with Sarah McConnell of With […]

I had a great time in Italy this summer visiting my partner’s family and seeing the beautiful countryside. It is was especially great to meet up with friends from here who were also either living in or visiting Capri and Puglia.

I’ve been working on getting a good setup for teaching. This has taken a while but I think I like what I have so far. The heart of the operation is the ATEM Mini Pro. It is a switcher that allows me to show different cameras or computers. I have a MacBook Pro which is […]

Joyful, hearing these amazing dance artists talk about community and the ways they find and create community. Organized by the talented Emmy award-winning producer Todd Clark. We were once again at the Arts Club of Washington, and in the Covid-19 era, this was the first time for me being with members of my dance community. […]

Spent the weekend with Company E doing a Livestream. We did a taped version that I edited rather than an actual “live” stream. It was going to be quite simple to edit all of the pieces together, that is until the battery on my Mac stopped charging. Luckily I had a backup computer and was […]

Many years ago I took a class with the amazing Suzanne Carbonneau called Aesthetics Awareness. We did many unique and innovated things and one of them was to reimagine the last page of James Joyces’ Ulysses. Also, I have always been a big fan of Ken Nordine and his Word Jazz and spent many hours […]

I was delighted to work as a media specialist for Revision Dance Company recently. I created a virtual production in Unreal Engine using dancers in front of a green screen. We decided against a live shoot since the green screen would have to live in the performance space so the dances were prerecorded. The virtual […]