Liquid Body multimedia dance company
Created by Caryn Heilman
Projection Design and Visuals by Laia Cabrera
Previous performances/projects:
Touching Gravity 2/Tilt (2008)
"Touching Gravity 2/Tilt" is an interactive, aerial videodance superimposed on a composited image of two rivers in the towns of North Adams and Adams, Massachusetts. Part of the "Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting the Adamses" project, the two New England towns are (re)connected through a colorful, fluid, multilayered dance that incorporates the movement of the natural landscape from each town, seen through the "difference" blend mode of the Flash interface. (view more)
Meeting in the Shimmer
Created in response to the events of 9/11. It points to a place where it is possible to meet in a fundamentally creative and regenerative way deepening the possibility of birthing new structures that will sustain life. LiquidBody initiates a dialogue with the audience. A simple hand and spine movement sequence coupled with a mantra of sounded names brings everyone into vibrational relationship. World Music of Nana adds percussion, sitar, didgeridoo, waterphone and voice. It is structured to grow and in addition to the accumulating recorded audience name tones it has grown from a solo, to a duet, and is now a quartet.
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Skins and Primal Resonnance
Skins
Solo multimedia dance performance that takes place nside powerfull projected video images.
Haven
Commissioned by the Puffin Foundation to commemorate the opening of the environmental art park Teaneck Creek, and featured footage of five LiquidBody dancers interacting with the natural environment and the cultural artifacts discovered. Each section had audience interactive toning led by Nana Simopoulos whose ensemble played live sitar, bouzouki, gongs and other world and electronic percussion. This piece can be done with the footage gathered in Teaneck Creek, but would ideally be created anew within other natural environments.
Beacon
Multimedia dance work that projects a live duet on the back wall behind the dancers. Particularly evocative, gestural moments are captured in freeze frame by a video artist and slowly dissolved back to the live gestural dialogue onstage. These moments become beacons of sculpted light allowing the viewer to experience the dance both as the exquisite flow of dialogue between the dancers in real time, and also as resonant sculpture beyond time. The audience voices periodic O sounds that fall like pebbles rippling a pond to further dimensionalize the experience of the radiance of the captured moment within a continuum. Live music includes cello, sitar, voice and tanpura.
Primal Resonance
Multimedia dance with aerial moments that uses two video projectors to transform fabric into moving sculpture and create a dynamic environment for movement. Invocation creates a golden space, Circles references evolutionary cycles, Electricity uses video artist triggered lightning flashes, Skins allows a dancer to morph into different "skins", Fireflies sets the environment twinkling, And Ever references a colorful forest environment from dusk to dawn.
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