Laeterna Machina Dance Show

The performance is a Frankenstein mashup of nostalgia and mental illness, centered round a dancer’s double identity.

The choreography creates a sonic and visual instrument which transforms physical impulse and energy into acoustic gestures and visual territories. Composed as a sequence of concentrated scenes, it creates an emotional and narrative logic underscored by intense, abstract imagery.

Taking the spectator through the looking glass into what may be the paranoic vision of an android, or simply a tale of modernity

http://www.laeterna.net/

About The Laeterna Machina - digital dance collective :

What happen when the body becomes the only interface ? How can the body learn, play and compose an audio-visual artifact ? How does it affect creativity and emotion. Can the body function as a visual instrument ?

The Laeterna Machina was founded in 2003 in France as an interdisciplinary research project combining dance, music, video and light engineering.

The Collective is unique in the world of contemporary dance, it has succeed in developing new electronic interfaces with custom sound and video software alongside powerful shows, workshops and lectures. It's also the first dance collective that has published all of its rehearsals on a website (video blog) and that is now available on the iTunes Music Store. (video podcast).
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=78610753

* Choreography : Gaetano Giunta
* Image : Bertrand Gondouin
* Light Direction : Cyril Monteil
* Sound : Laeterna Machina