From The Independent:
McGregor's company's latest dance work, Far, which opens at Sadler's Wells tonight, is an unlikely assemblage of souls.
With Far, the Stockport-born choreographer has taken his insatiable curiosity about the "technology of the dancing body" one step further, overseeing a sophisticated interdisciplinary collaboration that could have significant implications not only for his choreography, but for certain aspects of cognitive science itself.
"We've always done ourselves a big disservice in dance by saying that it isn't an intellectual art form, but one of instinct," he tells me. "Of course, instinct plays into the way we generate and perform choreography, but I've always been fascinated by what's going on with the physical thinking; not only when performing, but in actually creating movement. What are the models by which imagination is constrained? What is this relationship between the brain and the body? And what would happen if you corrupted the messages from the brain to the body, to try and make somebody dis-coordinated, un-coordinated; the antithesis of what you usually do with choreography, which is all body-perfect, body-beautiful?"
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/wayne-mcgregor-giant-leaps-in-the-studio-ndash-and-in-the-lab-2135922.html
Hondartza
Thursday 18 November 2010
Monday 15 November 2010
Art and Science in Aberdeen
From the BBC website:
An exhibition inspired by Viking life has opened in Aberdeen.
Exposure is a sound and light installation at Satrosphere and runs until 6 December.
Studies of soil samples dated up to one thousand years old at a Norse settlement in southern Greenland gave clues to the harsh life experienced by settlers at the time.
Dr Paul Adderley, environmental scientist at the University of Stirling, worked with composer Dr Michael Young of Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dr Adderley, of the University of Stirling's School of Biological and Environmental Sciences and who collected the soil samples, said: "Our installation is a live computer-generated performance.
"We combine visual information gained from a forensic examination of soils from old settlements, with an understanding of how Greenland's environment has changed. The everyday farm life of the Viking settlers is used to create the synthesis of the sounds heard.
"Michael and I hope that the work will cause the audience to reflect on the nature of these past communities and the extremes of environment which were faced by Viking settlers who arrived in Greenland over a thousand years ago."
Dr Young, who set images of the samples to music, said: "This project is a completely innovative science/art collaboration. The installation brings together analytical photographs with environmental recordings, Saga readings and many other sound sources. The audio and visual components are re-shaped and presented in real-time, by a custom-designed computer system."
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Guy Morgan
An exhibition inspired by Viking life has opened in Aberdeen.
Exposure is a sound and light installation at Satrosphere and runs until 6 December.
Studies of soil samples dated up to one thousand years old at a Norse settlement in southern Greenland gave clues to the harsh life experienced by settlers at the time.
Dr Paul Adderley, environmental scientist at the University of Stirling, worked with composer Dr Michael Young of Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dr Adderley, of the University of Stirling's School of Biological and Environmental Sciences and who collected the soil samples, said: "Our installation is a live computer-generated performance.
"We combine visual information gained from a forensic examination of soils from old settlements, with an understanding of how Greenland's environment has changed. The everyday farm life of the Viking settlers is used to create the synthesis of the sounds heard.
"Michael and I hope that the work will cause the audience to reflect on the nature of these past communities and the extremes of environment which were faced by Viking settlers who arrived in Greenland over a thousand years ago."
Dr Young, who set images of the samples to music, said: "This project is a completely innovative science/art collaboration. The installation brings together analytical photographs with environmental recordings, Saga readings and many other sound sources. The audio and visual components are re-shaped and presented in real-time, by a custom-designed computer system."
See more on Groundbreaking
Guy Morgan
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