MineOpticon II

Produced and Directed by:

DC Spensley AKA DanCoyote

Performed by the
“Diamond Boots Ensemble”:

Jenene Castle
Sara Gevurtz
Ben Unterman
Laurence Simmons
Eliot Wang
Matt Pita
Oberon Onmura
Michael Amundsen

Technical Director:
Bill “Wabbs” Cruickshank

Original Score:
Yağız Mungan

MineOpticon II is a real time, one hour long “Equine Ballet”, a theatrical horse dancing intervention into the virtual world of Minecraft staged at the CADRE Laboratory for New Media “Orwell” Server.

Imagine 8 riders performing intricate choreography based on Austrian Lipizzaner Stalions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipizzan to an original score in an exquisitely designed stage set and surrounding landscape.

Appearing before the performance will be James Morgan a curator to make a presentation on Minecraft as an art medium.

After the MineOpticon II performance will be an exciting Minecraft horse race!