Production 2005-2006

in collaboration with artist-programmer

Antoine Schmitt

Gameplay transposes the language and technology of video games to a choreographic environment

where the dancer is confronted with challenges paralleling the notion of the physical test present in many rites of passage A performance in which a dancer is confronted with a visual and sonic semi-autonomous environment sensitive to her/his presence.

Premiere: November 2005, VAD Festival, Girona, Catalonia

Some recent venues:

• 9 Nov 2005: Festival VAD (Video i Arts Digitals), Girona (Catalonia-Spain)
• 3 Dec 2005: Festival nuit numérique #3, Reims (Fr)
• 11 Dec 2005: Le Cube, Issy Les Moulineaux (Fr)
• 18 Mar 2006: Le Périscope, Nîmes (Fr)
• 17 November 2007: Digitalis Festival, Langogne, la Dr@aille, as part of the euro regional project CorpusMedia (Fr)
• 12-13 February 2008: Théâtre Universitaire, Nantes (Fr)
• 1st March 2008: lecture demonstration, NIAS, Bangalore (India)
• 24 Octobre 2008: Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains (Fr)
• 27 February 2009: DiD Festival , Milano (Italy)
• 12 February 2010: Centro Cultural El Matadero, Huesca (Spain) …

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Complete description-pdf | | Tech sheet | Detailed sheets | Link to Antoine Schmitt’s site