With over 1,400+ in attendance, 400+ dancers from across the nation and around the world—
Boston University’s ELEMENTS is the largest hip-hop dance competition on the East Coast.
ELEMENTS XIX explores and challenges the idea of “beauty” in creation.
The process, in whatever discipline, is a meditation on silencing the mind and following the innate forces that guide us—helping us to create art, cultivate space, and yield visceral & transformational expressions. The beauty in it is not a mere surface strategy, but a central part of what it means to be human.
Channeling the passion that drives our creative processes in all aspects of life, ELEMENTS XIX challenges participants to view gesture, space, and flow in dance as what is elegantly bewitching and ultimately inherent in the beauty of the creation—revelation and truth.
Event Poster
The Van de Graaf Canon is used in book design to divide a page in “pleasing” proportions. This canon is also known as the "secret canon," used in many medieval manuscripts and incunabula. In this poster, the canon is minimally utilized/broken throughout the poster to challenge visual pleasure and discomfort.
Program & Flyer
Announcements
Lanyards
Trophies
Geofilter
Scoresheets
Process
“Gesture.” “Flow.” “Guided.” Ideation revolved around trying to depict how dancers use this innate, creative force that guide them to create art inside the mind & inside the felt space. “Blacking out” when dancing, the mind + body is transforming through causal movements—whether emotional, musical, lexical, etc. That beauty and force is depicted through abstracted linear representations and symbols.
