The Body and the Other
Per_Dance Choreographic Research Platform invites you to the dance performance
‘The Body and the Other’ presented at TEMPS D’IMAGES festival, tanzhaus nrw
10th January 2020, 18:00, studio 6
event page on tanzhaus-nrw.de
‘The Body and the Other’ is a dance performance - choreographic installation about the multiple body as a physical, digital and hybrid in-between corporeality placed in a mixed reality topology and time capsule. Through an experimental scenography involving video, projection mapping and motion tracking technologies and the use of surfaces, objects and materials that follow their own technology and potential of movement, the aim is to unfold a performance as an unpredictable and unprescribed living entity with autonomous choreographic dramaturgy. Thus, the illusion about the creation of an absolutely pre-designed and fully controlled technological setting is being challenged. By revealing what escapes or slips away from technology, ‘The Body and the Other’ invites the elusive real in a piece based on an interplay between tactility and emptiness, appearing and disappearing imagery, absence and presence, with the moving body as a mediator and reminder of the deep human condition.
Concept-choreography-artistic direction: Eleonora Siarava
Dancers: Mina Ananiadou (GR), Yana Novotorova (DE/UKR)
Digital artist: Naoto Hieda (DE/JP)
Technology Development & Sound Design: Mixed Reality and Visualization Team (MIREVI) / Hochschule Düsseldorf
The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Greek choreographer Eleonora Siarava | Per_Dance Choreographic Research Platform and the Mixed Reality and Visualization Team | Hochschule Düsseldorf, co-funded by the program »Transfer International« of NRW KULTURsekretariat, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW and i-Portunus project (Creative Europe) and with the support of tanzhaus nrw in the framework of TEMPS D’IMAGES festival.