A Strange Peace

Collaboration between choreographer Utam Moses and composer Jonathan Sokol exploring states of surrender and transcendence.

The Space Between Us

"The Space Between Us" The costumes are embedded with LilyPad Ardino technology; One of the dancers' (with the round skirt) costume combines LilyPad components and a XBee (wireless transmitter) together with pressure and flex sensors connected by conductive thread, which detects and transmits the movements of the dancer to the composer's laptop, which are then used to generate and control sound within a MAX/MSP environment. Instead of a dancer's movements being a slave to the fixed constraints of a pre-composed piece of music, the wireless dance costume puts the power of live musical composition in the hands (body) of the dancer, who can explore and improvise new shapes and structures within an otherwise free musical environment. In collaboration with Composer Eric Lindsay and Textile Artist Amy Burrell.

Tócame! Body Research

An improvised semi-interactive performance work exploring physical and emotional textures of human contact and touch, using chance operations to determine order and content. The performance questioned the role of contact improvisation as a performance form and a space for emergent relationship, intimacy and vulnerability.

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