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J01NTS ~5 minutes, spring 2004. Dance and handmade electronics. Produced as a final project for "Dance as Collaborative Medium" at Harvard University, J01NTS is an experimental dance performance conducted entirely in the dark. Drawing on Euclid's "Elements" and Bauhaus aesthetics, the piece's nine dancers wear handmade LED light modules at critical joints on their bodies. As they move, the viewer's persistence of vision allows him or her to sense the movements of the dancer's entire body, despite the fact that only a fraction of the body is illuminated. Of course, once the relationship between floating points and the dancer's body is established, the music intensifies and the dancers' movements become more frantic and difficult to reconcile. Electro-luminescent wire and levitation equipment further conflates the realm of the body (whose movements are innately recognizable, despite a paucity of data points) with that of pure geometry: point, line, and plane are as valid as wrist, leg, and body in terms of spatial metric. |
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