Recoil Performance Group, spring 2008
Choreographer Tina Tarpgaard, Recoil Performance and my good friend, programmer Ole Kristensen invited me to help them create body navigation. The body navigation performance was originally part of a larger installation and modern dance performance in copenhagen, by Tim Rushton, Danish Dance Theatre called Labyrint. We had one room out of five rooms to make body navigation in.
Body navigation is a reactive floor-projection where dancers can dance on together with a digital reproduction of themselves. It consist of a camera tracking the dancers on the floor, and a projector that creates a image on the floor around and on the dancers. With this system we where able to create connections and visual images about human relations and emotions that where not otherwise possible.
Ole and I developed a application built in Processing based on a concept developed by Tina Tarpgaard and Ole to track the dancers and create the visuals projected down again. All controlled live by Tina with a control panel developed with Isadora under the performances.
Links
Photos by me of Labyrint and Body Navigation on flickr
Blogpost about body navigation
Video from Labyrint, Copenhagen
Video of full performance, as staged in Zagreb
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great work. I would be happy , if someone intoduces me to some urban scenography works. thank you very much.
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