Greeting from Tokyo.
How are you ?
I will go to London for this project on 26th Nov.
Warmest Regards,
Yukihiko YOSHIDA
Dance Critic, Dance Researcher
http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yukihiko/yoshidayukihiko.html
i n v i t a t i o n {& apologies for cross posting)
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Ukiyo [Moveable World]
a choreographic installation fusing dance, sound, design and digital
projections
by DAP LAB
directed by Johannes Birringer
with Michèle Danjoux
Friday, November 26, 2010 8:oo pm
Lilian Baylis Studio
Sadlers Wells, Rosebery Ave, London, EC1R 4TN
Ticket office: 0844 412 4300
Tickets: £ 12.00 / £ 10.00 limited seating
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/Ukiyo_Sadlerswells.html
www.danssansjoux.org
"Ukiyo" explores the layers of perceptions in an audiovisual world that
constantly shifts and fragments. The audience is invited to move in and
around the space which features five hanamichi (runways) and several
projection screens for the virtual world graphics and animated photography.
The dancers and musicians perform simultaneously with digital objects that
mutate. Live sound, music and visual choreography for "Ukiyo" are designed
for real-time gestural interaction to animate feedback and generative
processes through which virtual space and physical performer movements are
intertwined.
A European-Japanese collaboration directed by Johannes Birringer, “Ukiyo” is
a theatrical installation featuring audiophonic design concepts and
wearables by Michèle Danjoux, and choreography by Katsura Isobe, Helenna
Ren, Anne-Laure Misme, Yiorgos Bakalos, and Olu Taiwo; choreography on
screen by Biyo Kikuchi, Yumi Sagara, Jun Makime, Ruby Rumiko Bessho and
Mamen Rivera. Original music composed by Oded Ben-Tal, with live digital
sound and sensor processing by Sandy Finlayson. Live music composed and
performed by Caroline Wilkins. Photography, video and 3D digital designs by
Paul Verity Smith, Doros Polydorou and Johannes Birringer; scenography &
lighting by Johannes Birringer. The Second Life graphical interface is
designed by Takeshi Kabata and Yukihito Obara. Additional engineering by Eng
Tat Khoo (Keio-NUS CUTE Mixed Reality Lab).
This performance by an international ensemble of artists from the
London-based DAP-Lab was developed in collaboration with butoh dancers and
digital artists in Tokyo, Japan, as part of cross-cultural research into
virtual environments( directed by Birringer, director of DAP-Lab, and Center
for Digital Performance, Brunel University, School of Arts and coordinated
in Japan by Yukihiko Yoshida , Keio University Tokyo).
The European première of UKIYO took place in June 2010 at KIBLA Media Art
Center, Maribor, Slovenia. This project is supported by a grant from The
Japan Foundation and The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance at
Brunel University, West London.
Dap-lab/dsj
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