Dance and architecture have much in common as both are concerned with practices of space. For a dancer, the act of choreography occurs through the unfolding of spaces by means of gesture and embodied movement, whereas for an architect, space is a medium through which form emerges and habitation is constructed. For both, the first space of experience is the space of the body.
SeaUnSea is an interactive dance installation which premiered at Siobhan Davies Studio as part of Dance Umbrella in London, October 2006. SeaUnSea is a collaboration between the authors, choreographer Carol Brown and architect Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, working with programmer Chiron Mottram.
As dance-architecture it explores the practice of live drawing. SeaUnSea is a dance performance taking place on an interactive stage. A camera is mounted above the stage as an interface for a digital environment. As the dancers move across the stage, their movements becomes input for changes within the digital realm.
Brown, C. & Ramsgard Thomsen, M. (2008). Dancing-Drawing Fields of Presence in SeaUnSea. In D. Hannah & O. Harslof (Eds.), Performance Design (229-248). Copenhagen: Museum Tuschulanum Press.
Tony Conrad_Unprojectable: Projection and Perspective
Unprojectable: Projection and Perspective, a new commission in which Conrad addresses the immense space of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with its central bridge as a stage, exposes us to his most recent exploration of projection and long duration on a major scale. While the audience occupies the floor below, Conrad’s back-projected, larger-than-life silhouette will loom large, swaying in response to the production of sounds which will generate a pressure-filled auditory environment.
http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/tony_conrad.shtm
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