Production 2011

Project in collaboration with duo  Scenocosme

(Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt)

An interactive dance performance for two dancers

full documentation / contact for touring

Next venue:

30 March - Festival Electrochoc – Les Abattoirs – Bourgoin Jallieu (near Lyon)

Recent presentations:

7 November – 3:00 pm – Center for Digital Creation Le Cube – Issy Les Moulineaux

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17 November – 7:00 pm – Alénya (Perpignan) – salle Antonio Machado – project Convivencia Pyrénées Méditerranée

2 October – 8:00 pm – La Caldera – Barcelona (CorpusMedia 2011)

3 – 4 Septembre – Abbaye de l’Escaladieu – “Digital horizons” – Hautes-Pyrénées

5 August – Cité de l’espace – Astralia space  – Toulouse

21 May – Lieu Commun – Toulouse (CorpusMedia 2011)

20 May -  Theater Marcel Pagnol – Villeneuve-Tolosane

April 5 – Théâtre de la Digue – Toulouse

March 19 and 20 – Poitiers

Le 6ème Souffle de l’équinoxe

Choreography: Anne Holst & Jean-Marc Matos (Compagnie K. Danse)

Interactive scenography, sound, lights: Scenocosme (Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt)

Dancers: Aude Miyagi & Julien Lecuziat

Tactile Sensations is a dance performance that investigates the meaning and intimacy of touch and its social construction: the connection to memory and human attachment, emotion, desire, rejection.

How and why do people touch each other? How is touch initiated between people? What is the meaning of touch?

This performance stages the sensitive relationship between a man and a woman.

The overall theme is enhanced by the interactive experience of producing and altering the sound and lights via the digital treatment of data coming from the contact between two bodies.

The exchange happens when the two dancers touch each. This investigation of touch within the performance is augmented and made more clearly perceptible to the audience by adding the aural and visual sense in that each moment of touch (dancer-dancer) – according to the various meanings of the touch graded according to which part of the dancers body touches or is touched – produces a specific sound and variations in lights. This augmentation of the sense of touch by associating sound and light thus induces, enhances and stimulates the senses and makes the audience acutely aware of the multiple meanings of bodily human interaction which in daily life nowadays are often suppressed, subconscious or ignored.

Site specific version of the performance in the public space

Production 2009-2010

Interactive dance performance.

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.

Dancers: Benjamin-Aliot Pagès, Yuko Yamada
Music composer: David Fieffé
Video artist: Guillaume Bautista
Sensors engineering: Julien Marro-Dauzat
Computer programming: Théo de Lahogue
Concept: Anne Holst
Artistic and choreographic directorship: Anne Holst, Jean-Marc Matos

As part of CorpusMedia 2009, euro regional platform ”Digital Performance” and the “Pôle Art-Science-Danse” 2010.

Residency at the National Center for Live Performance Writings, La Chartreuse of Villeneuve-Lès-Avignon, 17-23 April 2010.

Venues:

Maison Salvan Art et Science, Labège, 19 november 2010

Center for Digital Creation, Le Cube, Issy les Moulineaux, 15 November 2009

Festival Empreintes Numériques, 29 April 2009
“Art Gallery” version Centre Culturel Bellegarde, Toulouse

Maison Salvan Art et Science, Labège, work in progress, december 2008 (as part of the CorpusMedia 2008 event)

Downloads:

Complete description.pdf |  Photo HD

(photos by Raphaël Kann)

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 and upcoming dates:

• 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) …

Links:

• Press
• Photos, tech rider, long video

Downloads:

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

Production 2006-2007
video excerpt with performer Yuko Yamada, in collaboration with programmer Ivan Chabanaud and composer Roland Cahen

As technologies develop, the individual senses a growing agency, an increasing power over the world. But as the human interlocutor is replaced by technology, the exerting power becomes displaced and intangible.As the power of the individual in virtual space increases, the power of the body in physical space is reduced by a strategic partitioning of time, space and movement.
The western metaphor of light as objectivity and truth posits light/sight as right and good; darkness as bad. The images that surround us often promulgate this idea. Para_site investigates these notions – power, discipline, and the docile body.

• 16 December 2006: Médiathèque of Camponac, Pessac
• 3 March 2007: Caixa Forum, Barcelona (Festival IDN)
• 3-4 May 2007: Bellegarde Cultural Center, Toulouse
• 29 September 2007: Theatre Marcel Pagnol, Villeneuve-Tolosane

Links:

• The first step
• Information wiki
• Ivan Chabanaud
• Roland Cahen

Downloads:

complete description-pdf | technical sheet | Bio partners

Production 2006-2007

A multimedia dance performance for two dancers in a reactive environment using optical sensors and projected colour and images. In collaboration with video maker Guillaume Bautista.

Night Screen deals with the psychological processes of domination which ensnares both parties in bonds of complicity inside of a reactive environment using Max MSP/Jitter and Isadora software.

First perforùances:

29 septembre 2005, Festival Media@rte, Monterrey (Mexique) (version Périple 2005)

23 March 2006, International Festival International of Video Art, Casablanca, 24 March, french cultural Institut of Rabat, Morocco

Touring: 15-26 May 2007, Costa Rica, Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala

with the support of the network of French Alliances of Central America, the cultural section of the French Embassy in Costa Rica,  CulturesFrance (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the City of  Toulouse

Links:

Medi@rte Festival

Downloads:

complete description-pdf | technical sheet |

Production 2004-2005

co-conceived with visual artist David Coste

Premiere: April 2005, Monik Festival, Odyssud, Blagnac (near Toulouse)

Dance-theater-video-interactive performance

On the question of power and the blurring of boundaries between fiction and reality.

Two dancers, reactive technology, visual arts collaboration.

Downloads:

Complete description-pdf

Production 2003

Premiere: March 2003, Festival of Electronic Arts Monik, Odyssud, Blagnac (near Toulouse)

Multimedia dance performance for three dancers and reactive environments (real time video and sound treatment, body sensors, interactive flight simulator, motion capture)

A contemporary interpretation of the Greek myth of Icarus, around the universal desire for flight, real and imaginary.

Download:

Complete description-pdf