Video from the rehearsal on 22 July:http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~mkaragianni/sites/jw_flv_player/AIRvideos.html

Background

Laban notation is not comprehendible for a great many of people, both dancers and non-dancers. Because of the limitation of using a specialized system of movement analysis such as the laban-notation system, the audience cannot really have a control or understanding of the connections between the notation symbols and the movements of the dancers. Aiming and focusing the eye and ear is the method that the audience uses to perceive a performance. We give to the audience the control over what is visible or not during the dance. The audience member (or two at the same time?) gets a spotlight (or two) which s/he uses to switch on/off the light. This determines what we see of the choreography and listen of the sound.

The light would be used as a simple interface of influencing the score of the performance. A  direct way of controlling the events of the performance. The rhythm of the time is based on 1 sec bit. There’s a dance vocabulary of movements of 1 sec duration each. The dance and sound loops every 7 or 15 sec. The dancer executes the movements the first time in a very dry way accompanied by a dry sound of letters (from A to L -each letter correspond to a movement). Every time the loop is repeated new small elements-details are introduced both in the sound and movement design.