Ice Floe – Video Jody Sperling July 6, 2014 Dance, Multimedia Credits Choreography & Performance: Jody Sperling Video Editing: Ben Harden & Amanda Kowalski Camera: Tripod, Frank Bahr & Pierre Coupel Music: Beo Morales & Brooks Williams Costume...
Habitat Jody Sperling June 27, 2014 Dance During SUBICE’s 43 day voyage, I got to dance on sea ice 12 times. As the science mission concluded and the Healy headed south we left my dancing habitat behind. In the marginal ice zone, we encountered...
Ice Station Practice 2: Waiting and a Squall Jody Sperling June 24, 2014 Dance When I left off in Ice Station Practice, I was awaiting a dancing-on-the-ice shoot with outreach team documentarians Ben Harden and Amanda Kowalski. For the first two weeks of the cruise, we had been...
Ice Watching Jody Sperling June 22, 2014 Dance My favorite place on the Healy is the bridge, where you can survey the every-changing panorama of sea ice. There’s a chair exactly like the captain’s chair, but on the port (left) side, that’s available...
Ice Station Practice Jody Sperling May 30, 2014 Dance 1 Comment So far, I’ve gotten to dance during four ice stations. An “ice station” is when the Healy nestles up against an ice floe, drops anchor and the scientists get to do their experiments—drill holes,...
Time Lapse Dance Workshop Jody Sperling May 28, 2014 Dance 1 Comment The science team aboard the Healy has been incredibly generous in giving me impromptu tutorials in such topics as sea ice composition, melt pond mathematics, ice algae bio-markers and zooplankton reproduction....
Silhouettes Jody Sperling May 25, 2014 Dance 2 Comments I was rehearsing in the Healy’s hangar and decided to open the door to the helipad. Moving from inside to outside and back again, I was able to modulate the silhouette effect captured by the camera. My...
Hangar Heaven Jody Sperling May 19, 2014 Dance Finding adequate rehearsal space in NYC is tough. In March and April while preparing for Polar Vortex, my dancers and I rehearsed in seven different locations. So, imagine my joy aboard USCG Healy where, as...
Dancing in the Arctic Jody Sperling May 15, 2014 Dance I’m aboard the Healy to conduct research—artistic, not scientific—for a choreography project entitled Ice Melt. While the science team will be collecting data about under-ice phytoplankton blooms, ocean...