Performance TRACES

Forum Rolex Learning Center
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

6:00 p.m. – Welcome and cocktail
6:45 p.m. – Performance (15min)
, followed by a discussion with the project actors 

How to imagine a written transcription for the dance?

TRACES’ creation is a meeting point between art and technological innovation. The dancer’s movements are recorded and transmitted in real time into artistic signals. This is all possible thanks to a technology developed by the EPFL start-up Gait Up. The whole performance is set upon an original music composition.

Thanks to the latest technological developments in movement measurement, a sensor placed on the dancer’s slipper transcribes the movements in real time to a big screen. TRACES is set to offer a written transcription of the dance similar to what a partition is to music.

Flux Laboratory has though of this project in its totality. It has therefore assembled a multidisciplinary team of members of both the artistic as well as the technological world. This performance was presented for the first time during the inauguration of the Biotech Campus in Geneva in May 2015.

  • A Flux Laboratory creation
  • Based on an original idea from product designer Lesia Trubat
  • Choreographer : Nicolas Musin
  • Dancer : Fernanda Diniz
  • Music : An Aki Nakamura composition, interpreted by Jérémie Cresta
  • Technology : Gait Up, Mouvement measure and analysis
  • Film :  directed by Pablo Martin Torrado – production: Freestudios

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