Selected Works

Projects

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VideoDance
Company E performing before a rendered desert-and-sea environment
2023

The Pearl Diver's Daughter — Visual Design

Video ProductionReal-time / Unreal
Boris Willis and Rex Delafkaran performing on a long table before a gallery audience
2022

The Alloy Project

Dance Performance
Boris Willis's avatar dancing in a rendered neighborhood
2021

Hey Mu!

ChoreographyReal-time / Unreal
A dancer performing beside a screen showing a real-time rendered street in ReVision 10
2021

ReVision 10

Real-time / UnrealMotion CaptureInteractive Performance
Title card for The Owl, The Fish, The Maiden and He, an interactive poem
2020

The Owl, The Fish, The Maiden and He

Game DesignInteractive PerformanceReal-time / Unreal
Boris Willis leading a line of dancers across a theater stage in rehearsal
2020

Dots

ChoreographyLighting & Set DesignReal-time / Unreal
A MetaHuman face on a monitor in the Encounters installation
2021

Encounters

Games & Interactive PerformancesReal-time / Unreal
Boris Willis with Shannon Quinn at the side of the stage
2019

Night Vision

Choreography
Performers in a Sunderland shipyard
2017

Timber. Iron. Sinew.

Video Production
Two people pressing palms together in front of the White House
2017

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Dance Performance
Boris Willis walking through a gallery beside Radcliffe Bailey's work
2017

Dismal Swamp

Choreography
Boris Willis and a dancer reaching outward on a dim stage
2017

coldness and lightness

Dance Performance
Children playing Natasha on laptops at a public event
2016

Natasha: A Game of Dance

Games & Interactive Performances
A Now Playing: Mosaic Moves marquee in a dance center lobby
2016

Mosaic Moves

Games & Interactive Performances
The Happy Hour advergame start screen
2016

Happy Hour

Games & Interactive Performances
Boris Willis looking upward in an autumn landscape
2013

Moments / Mumford

Video Production
Rosslyn rendered in a game engine
2013

Gameify Rosslyn

Games & Interactive Performances
Audience around an open floor at Wild Goose Creative
2011

Kinect Telephony

Choreography
Boris Willis and Cynthia McLaughlin in an improvised duet
2008

Follow

Dance Performance
Boris Willis partnering a dancer, black and white
2008

Other Life

Theater/Film
Boris Willis lifting Sharon Mansur in a burgundy-lit duet
2004

Depth of Perception

Dance Performance
Abandoned Revolution
2003

Abandoned Revolution

DanceVideo
Boris Willis and Cynthia McLaughlin glancing back over their shoulders
2003

Enter Race

Choreography
Two dancers leaping in unison, shadows thrown across the wall behind them
2001

Aliens

Dance Performance
Boris Willis leaping beside a screen rendering a digital figure
1998

Sirob and Aadelle — Boolean Netscape Remix

Choreography
The ensemble of In Living Colors crouched together on stage
1995

In Living Colors

Theater/Film