Laser Sculpture Dance	LASER SCULPTURE/ DANCE expanded upon the sculptor, Ron Rocco's early interest in tension generated forms. These forms, originating from earlier constructions incorporating arc elements, were held in a balance of tension forces. They reflected a sculptural concern where minimal structures formed by the laws of physics were woven into the art process. These interests, which ran through Mr. Rocco's work produced in the late seventies, found their purest manifestation as "cat's cradle" string figures. (Pure string tension forms).
		These absolutely minimized forms had an interesting history, having a role as nemonic structures in mythologies taught within the various cultures from which they originated. This social facet, was represented in the physical movement of several participants (quite literally as fingers in the game) in a performance presented in 1979 as the String Event of the Ithaca Festival. The idea of group movement and the large-scale installation of string forms from the artist's exhibitions were integrated by the use of laser light in generating the forms. This minimized the sculpture even further, crossing the bounds of the physical object into a semi-materiality. It is this quality that allows the sculpture to be transformed and manipulated in the dance.
	LASER SCULPTURE/DANCE as conceived, as a dance and sculpture collaboration, employs a set environment of laser and artificially induced fog atmosphere containing reflective target points for the direction of the laser light into string-like patterns.
		Within the fog a geometric enclosure of laser light materializes slowly. The dancer explores the substance-like or nonsubstance-like nature of this enclosure. The relationship of the dancer's movement and the workings of the laser system are of special interest in this work. The dancer's body intercepts the beam and terminates its complex pattern in an instant. The laser pattern can in turn be varied to a room-sized matrix that expands or restricts the dancer's movement.