Dancing Dollar

I like this little clip of DanceForms in action as it pushes what dance actually is. I always take it to be the movement of the human body, and even DanceForms, whilst an artificial reality, is modelled on the human frame. Even in this clip we can just about trace out human-like qualities in the dollar bill - arms, legs, torso, maybe a head. However, the dollar is flatter, wider and more angular than a human, and appears to have been made with an entirely different model and not just a human model with a dollar texture applied over the top.


This goes beyond making animals dance or manipulating puppets. An inanimate object is given the status of dancer, moving of its own virtual volition without any real-world strings - and therefore the uniquely human quality of dance is challenged. And that's without the apparent comment on the body as being just a part of late day capitalism symbolised by the currency. All that from
a few seconds of video.