Dance solo performed by Laurie Booth in May 2009.
Brighton Fringe Festival
with Mariko Dawson: photographic artwork and
Jeremy Radvan: digital illustration
Video: Fiona and Spike Geilinger
Sound composer: Hans Peter Kuhn
Orbit
Photography and Dance share common ground in that both express a vision of Energy,Matter and Time, and they have both developed an aesthetic strategy based upon the organization of these elements within a specific medium. The dancing body is a metaphor for the universe in microcosm. Similarly a photograph is a specific metaphoric representation of the same universe. Yet each dance possesses a unique signature of molecular and energetic singularity .
Jeremy is a senior lecturer in drawing at Brighton University and has developed a software program for use in live performance. As the dancer moves in the space, line is drawn in real time on a digital surface and projected into the real space where it suspends. The line itself can be composed of anything; dots,letters, paint, chalk, even video footage of the dancer. Using three powerful projectors it is possible to draw in response to and onto the dance, the space, the dancer. The operator can decide the duration of the line, filling and emptying the canvas of the space.
