So I’m very excited to announce that I have been picked as one of the first WIRED / The Space Creative Fellows alongside Alison Killing and Annette Mees
Oliver Franklin Wallis at WIRED have just written a really nice article about my project which you can read below
WIRED has partnered with digital arts organisation The Space to form the first ever The Space/WIRED Creative Fellowships. The winners will be granted £30,000 to develop their practice. Each will present their work at the WIRED2015 on 15-16 October. Here, we profile one of the winners:

Laura Kriefman is more than a choreographer. “My company, Hellion Trace, specialises in fusing movement and technology,” says Bristol-based Kriefman, 32. Her studio works on installations and massive spectacles with a singular aim: helping us to reconnect with our bodies and our environment.
“We’ve got so many labour-saving devices around these days that our sense of movement in our bodies have completely changed. And so we’re interested in looking at how we can use the technology to change the way we see the world, and liberate our sense of movement again.”

Take Hidden Fields, for which Kriefman collaborated with scientists to help fuse an interactive dance space with quantum mechanics, or Kicking The Mic, which used sensors to turn a dance floor into a MIDI instrument for tap dancers. “We made a fully wireless looper and sampler, so the tap dancer can pick and choose between being a flute or a cello — you name it,” she says. “It was a really interesting exploration: are you composing choreography? Or are you choreographing a composition?”
Kriefman’s other pieces transform public spaces: such as Rolling Stones, an array of interactive music sculptures. “It’s about giving people back possession of their instinctive feelings of how they want to move and interact in their public spaces,” says Kriefman.
For her The Space/WIRED Creative Fellowship project, Kriefman is taking her interaction with public spaces to a new scale. Crane Dance, she explains, will be “a synchronised dance routine across the entirety of a city skyline, set to music, using all the industrial construction cranes”. “The way they move is just exquisite,” she says.
The plan is to hold Crane Dance in London in spring 2016; a rehearsal is planned in Bristol this October. “Cranes really demonstrate our disconnection from our cities: they’re things happening behind hoardings, over holes in the ground we can’t see,” she says.

Laura Kriefman
“I’m hoping that people will be able to watch it from their favourite point in the city: going up on to their roofs, looking out the window, seeing the duets and trios between cranes on the same site, then synchronised movements, where it’s the same shape across the whole of the city.”
“It’s about creating this really positive memory, and absolute spectacle, that for a moment gives the city back to its citizens.”
“Winning the Fellowship is an amazing validation in the work we’re trying to do,” she says. “And the best part is: I get to drive a construction crane.”
Meet The Space/WIRED Creative Fellows at WIRED2015 in London on October 15-16. wiredevent.co.uk/wired-2015