Idea, music, sound design – Antanas Jasenka
Choreography – Birutė Letukaitė
Costumes: Olesė Kekienė, Birutė Letukaitė
Dancers: Anna Karen Gonzalez Huesca, Ema Nedobežkina, Francesco Dalmasso, Gintarė Marija Ščavinskaitė, Israel Ismael Infante Salazar, Kirie Oda, Paulius Prievelis, Siri Elmqvist
Technology: MOTUS – by TZM Creative Lab
Texts: extracs from “Verità Parallele” by Leonidas Donskis and George Orwell “Animal Farm”
Duration: 50 min
Work in progress was presented on April 22, 2014 in Vilnius, the festival “Youth music”.
Premiered on February 27, 2015 in Vilnius, Arts Printing House.
Daily research of copula: with yourself, with the other, with God. Yet connections are broken, remade. Shattered sexuality, the relation between man and woman, various -isms – all surpass one another, thrust new truths and proclaim the era of new gods. In this era the value of a human being is determined not by us, but by the system which we either match or not. We are complying with the dimensions measured in centimeters, with brands and purchasing capacity. The system prefers (uni)sex, (uni)you and (uni)him, because I hardly obeys.
Inspiration source of the performance is MOTUS – creative motion enhancer. MOTUS is a wireless performance controller that collects data about dancer’s motions and coverts it to gestures and control parameters for sound synthesizers and audio effects. The space around dancer becomes a touchless surface, a canvas that dancer can interact with and hear the sound feedback immediately.
Technology developed by TZM Creative Lab, more info at http://tzm.lt/motus. TZM Creative Lab is the place where technocrats meet artists, where the synthesis of art and technology happens, where the new ways of expression are born, where the devices that provoke senses and emotions are being created.
