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The Berkeley Dance Project has an exciting performance playing at the Playhouse call Stream.  It combines contemporary dance, exciting explorations with new performance technology, and forward thinking conscientious topics such as the politics of water and miscommunication with new social technology. My favorite piece of this three part act was The Somnambulist’s Dream , which explores the integration of media content in relationship to the body in motion by utilizing real time feeds. In other words, recording of the real time dance was being projected into the performance itself in different scales creating unbelievably beautiful surreal effects. Unfortunately cameras aren't allowed at the Playhouse, but I was so in love with the creative use of these mediums for dance that I stopped by a Dance & Technology Open Classroom the following Monday, being held by the director of the piece, to learn more and get to play around with a Max MSP interface that allows for telepresence