Echoroom

Interactive dance performance (physiological sensors)

Echo Room questions the domination of the other and the structure of  relationships between men and women.  The choreography draws on the  dialectics of the body which is inherited and socially constructed on  the one hand, and lived and free to make choices on the other. The  uncontrollable is juxtaposed with the controlled and imposes itself like  an echo of the past.

Echo Room deals with the simultaneous perception of various states of  one given reality embodied in a man-woman relationship through the use  of physiological sensors.  It questions the relationship between movement, physiology and  psychological structures through a danced duo to be experienced by the  audience in three spaces.  Each space emphasizes either the live dance;  the physiological reactions-interactions of the dancers through sound,  shape and colour; or the mental space of the dancers through reactive  sound and video. This is achieved by treating information collected by  sensors attached to the dancers which measure their physiological  reactions: muscular tension, breathing, and heartbeat which allows for  another real-symbolic-past-future space/time interpretation of the dance  that we see unfolding before us.

In the site specific version the audience is invited to circulate in  three separate spaces, inside of a given location. In the stage version  the audience can experience the three spaces simultaneously either in  the house or around the dancers on the stage itself as images and sound  are projected on screens suspended on stage and on the walls of the  house.

Source: K. Danse

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