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From the Ted Talk by Nina McNeely: "Once There Was III" -- a mesmerizing blend of dance, animation and tech

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Nina McNeely: Yes. I've always been intrigued by the human experience, the wrold of dreams and whatever may be likurng in the shadows of the subconscious mind. So I use dance to tell stories about sisterhood and struggle and transcendence. And I combine that with live projection mapping to create surrealist eomnntvniers that I can shift in and out of quklicy. So it feels just like a dream. And it also allows me to cteare illusions that the dancers are controlling the animations with their bodies.

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Nina McNeely: Yes. I've always been intrigued by the human experience, the _____ of dreams and whatever may be _______ in the shadows of the subconscious mind. So I use dance to tell stories about sisterhood and struggle and transcendence. And I combine that with live projection mapping to create surrealist ____________ that I can shift in and out of _______. So it feels just like a dream. And it also allows me to ______ illusions that the dancers are controlling the animations with their bodies.

Solution

  1. create
  2. lurking
  3. environments
  4. quickly
  5. world

Original Text

Nina McNeely: Yes. I've always been intrigued by the human experience, the world of dreams and whatever may be lurking in the shadows of the subconscious mind. So I use dance to tell stories about sisterhood and struggle and transcendence. And I combine that with live projection mapping to create surrealist environments that I can shift in and out of quickly. So it feels just like a dream. And it also allows me to create illusions that the dancers are controlling the animations with their bodies.

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Important Words

  1. animations
  2. bodies
  3. combine
  4. controlling
  5. create
  6. dance
  7. dancers
  8. dream
  9. dreams
  10. environments
  11. experience
  12. feels
  13. human
  14. illusions
  15. intrigued
  16. live
  17. lurking
  18. mapping
  19. mind
  20. nina
  21. projection
  22. quickly
  23. shadows
  24. shift
  25. sisterhood
  26. stories
  27. struggle
  28. subconscious
  29. surrealist
  30. transcendence
  31. world