YCAM InterLab + Yoko Ando
"Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM)" in 2014-15 Performance
"Dividual Plays ― Dialogue between the unconscious and systems"
ram.ycam.jp/en/
2015.1.24 (Sat) 19:00 / 1.25 (Sun) 14:00
Initiated by YCAM InterLab, Yoko Ando, a leading dancer from The Forsythe Company, and a group of software engineers in 2010. Since then, we have been developing the "Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM)" and this presentation is the result of our project that explores the possibilities of body expression through technology in the form of dance performance. RAM defines dance as something produced by the interaction between the dancer and environment rather than a predetermined choreography. Dancers take in surrounding information including other dancers' movement and react to it according to certain rules they create.
As part of our research, we developed a system that captures the movement of dancers in real time and interfaces the information to a virtual environment which gives feedback to the dancers. With programming and capabilities design this virtual environment, the system becomes a tool for exploring the possibility of dance.
Paired with the feedback system, this piece accompanies a number of small laboratories on stage in which various objects are placed. They move and shift in accordance with the movement of the dancers. These changes are converted into sound and light and feedback to the stage atmosphere and the dancers who send another signal to the labs. It is a huge "connection machine" involving the dancers, stage and the laboratories.
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Project Direction:YCAM InterLab
Dance Concept + Direction:Yoko Ando (The Forsythe Company)
Collaborators
Programing Device Design:Yoshito Onishi, Ryo Kanda, Sheep
Research and Development Consultant:Yasuaki Kakehi (Keio University)
Dancers:Yui Kawaguchi, Kenta Kojiri, Ryoji Sasamoto (METHOD B)
Special Collaborators
Space Design:Tsuyoshi Tane (DORELL.GHOTMEH.TANE/ARCHITECTS)
Sound and Programing:evala (port, ATAK)
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Admission: [Free seating]
Advanced ticket:2,500 yen / “any” members & special discounts 2,000 yen / Under 25 1,800yen
Tickets at the door:3,000 yen