MOVING DIGITS 2019-2020

Between February 2019 and March 2020, I was part of Moving Digits, an EU funded project which was a collaboration between dancers/choreographers and a tech team.
In this project I collaborated and performed in the work of Hanna Pajala-Assefa.

Moving Digits: Augmented Dance for Engaged Audience aims to enhance audience understanding and engagement in contemporary dance performances, and to allow to experience dance in an augmented way (even after the performance). The project also aims to empower dancers, choreographers and technicians with further tools for expression, archival and analysis. For more information click here.

Connection Retrieval

This work is an ongoing exploration to implement a coherent narrative on stage by combining high-tech and low-tech technologies within live dance performance. This process has been focusing on finding a balance between the technical tools of live visualisation and sound creation, combined with the compositional tasks given to the performers to create the dance. Technologically, we are using live motion capturing coupled with digital audio and video synthesis tools to create visual and sonic layers, constructing a poetic narrative in dialogue with the dance. For the movement, we are focusing on task based improvisation, where we take different awareness and sensory inputs (auditive, visual, tactile) as guides to create movement and to connect to the Other.  We are playing with prioritising particular senses to articulate movement language into compositional scenes and episodes. In doing so, we have attempted to portray the power of mind and imagination, and the inherent need to be heard, seen and touched whilst searching for connectedness to others. My choreographic objective is to look at ways to layer the different elements, whereby the connection between the movements, visuals and sounds can be strengthened in order to create a narrative, whilst simultaneously allowing each element to exist through its own dramaturgical logic. 

Concept and choreography: Hanna Pajala-Assefa 

Dancers (Tallinn, Aug/19): Madli Paves, Christin Taul

Dancers (Düsseldorf, Oct/19): Einav Katan-Schmid, Ella Tighe

Dancers (Tallinn, Mar/20): Ella Tighe, Tanja Råman

Visuals, sound and interaction by, respectively: Stephan Jürgens, Raul Masu and Jochen Feitsch

Photos by Stephan Jürgens