/Tools of the trade

• inspiration

first presentation.

For a while now I want to work with ballet dancers. I want to study their movements, the ways that their body can shape to when they are dancing. I would love to create a digital way of making an interaction between human movement and technology.

I started looking at what is a tool? A tool is in essence an extension of the human body, to do a humans job or to manipulate a medium. Al machines are tools because they function as an extension of the body.

I want to create a tool that becomes one with the body and controls how the extension of body to body would be. A tool that makes it possible for the viewer to really connects physical with all of the movements of the dancer. This to strengthen the emotions of the viewer during the dance.

I want to put sensor stickers on the body-parts of the viewer that gives a tingle while the dancer moves body-parts like armpit, neck, hips and knee. So the viewer feels a motion/tingle on the place that the dancer moves at the same time. Also I want to zoom in and enlarge the movement of the dancer on the screen behind her. I think this could really intensify the experience of the dance physical and emotional.

This makes that the tool becomes a connection between the dancer, public and the movements of the dancer.

Things I want to experiment with:

-Does it create a bigger awareness of movement?

-Does it create possibility’s like maybe the public would really connect with the choreography of the dance and would even remember some parts because they really experienced the movement?

-Does the emotions get enhanced by the tingle they reseave from the sensors.