Chunky Move: Glow :: February 7-9, 2008; 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm :: February 10, 2 pm and 3:30 pm :: The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, NYC :: Co-Presented with The Joyce Theater.
Glow is an illuminating choreographic essay by Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek and interactive software creator Frieder Weiss. Beneath the glow of a sophisticated video tracking system, a lone organic being mutates in and out of human form into unfamiliar, sensual and grotesque creature states.
Utilising the latest in interactive video technologies a digital landscape is generated in real time in response to the dancer's movement. The body's gestures are extended by and in turn manipulate the video world that surrounds it, rendering no two performances exactly the same.
In Glow, light and moving graphics are not pre-rendered video playback but rather images constantly generated by various algorithms responding to movement. In most conventional works employing projection lighting, the dancer's position and timing have to be completely fixed to the space and timeline of the video playback. Their role is reduced to the difficult chore of making every performance an exact facsimile of the original. In Glow, the machine sees the performer and responds to their actions, unlocking them from a relationship of restriction and tedium.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Live Stage: GLOW (nyc)
Author: Bram Crevits op 12:21
Labels: Ambra, body, body projection, choreography, Filip, Lotta, motion tracking, video
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Just wanna say that I really like Chunky Move, and I would like to see this piece, interesting! Thank you for posting it on the blog.
It's nice with the interactive relationship (I checked their website http://www.chunkymove.com/glow/, the body somehow gets extended in a unity with the graphics, I've seen something similar but with a group it was projections by Marco Barsottini och Lorenzo Sarti at Gothenburg Opera in a piece by Daniela Kurz
Denise suggested interactivity, I think it could be interesting to switch between projections on the body and images where graphics are interactive with the body.
The interactive projections are very nice on the ground which also seems to be the case in most things I've seen, it would be interesting to try to break that I guess... but then it's always good with things that work... even if it has been done.. I guess there's my tendency to strive for why... a reason, a concept which is the question Kristof just asked;-)
Thanx:-) Lotta
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