PuSh Festival presents Glow
By ZoeQ on January 27, 2008 - 2:58pm
Chunky Move Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek and German interactive software engineer Frieder Weiß have together created an intimate interactive solo performance in which the motion of the human body is used to trigger and control music, lighting and animation. A digital landscape is generated in real time in response to the dancer’s movement, with the body’s gestures extended by and in turn manipulating the surrounding video world.
The relationship between the light and graphics and the human body changes throughout Glow. At first the dancer seems to control the magical display of light and geometric patterns, but gradually it becomes difficult to separate the elements of body and light, as movement, graphics and sound powerfully meld into a single entity. Then eerily, projected shadows take on a dramatic form of their own and begin to impact on the dancer’s behaviour.
Founded by Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek in 1995, Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance. Chunky Move’s work constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance within an ever-evolving Australian culture. The company’s work is both diverse in form and content; to date the Company has created a number of works for the stage, site specific and new-media and installation work. Recent works include Singularity, I Want to Dance Better at Parties, Tense Dave, Three’s A Crowd and Wanted: ballet for a contemporary democracy. www.chunkymove.com.au.
January 31–February 2 7pm and 9pm
Tickets: $22.00/28.00
Tickets Tonight www.ticketstonight.ca
For full event line-up: www.pushfestival.ca
PuSh Information
In a short space of time, PuSh has become one of Vancouver's signature events - a multi-disciplined platform for theatre, dance, music and various hybrid forms of performance.
The core of our mission is straightforward: each January we present the very best in contemporary performance with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original.
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