SKIN DIVING
Dance with AI Technologie
SHIBUI Collective 2022
Artistic direction|Choreography Emi Miyoshi
Dance Anna Kempin & Kirill Berezovski
Production management Astrid Wegner
Sound Programming|Sound Direction Ephraim Wegner
Video programming Daniel Bisig
Costumes Yvonne Forster
Choreographic assistance Unita Gay Galiluyo
Lighting Tobias Semmelmann
Photo|Video Marc Doradzillo
Production SHIBUI Collective
Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz, the Cultural Office of the City of Freiburg, the Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg e.V. with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg, DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, Laboratory for Media Ecology (Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany), Macromedia University of Applied Sciences (Germany), Center for Dance Research (Coventry University, England), Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland), Horizon 2020 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, grant agreement no: 840465), and Studio Pro Arte.
Premiere
FR 11.11.2022| 20 Uhr
Weitere Aufführung
SA 12.11.2022 | 20 Uhr
Studio ProArte
Am Rohrgraben 4a, 79249 Freiburg / Merzhausen
Eintritt & Vorverkauf
15,- /10,- Euro (erm.)
Year
2022
SKIN DIVING links the joint research project ARTIFICIAL INTIMACY by Daniel Bisig (video programming), Ephraim Wegner (sound programming, sound direction) and Emi Miyoshi (choreography) with the dance production SKIN by Emi Miyoshi and SHIBUI Kollektiv, which was successfully premiered in March 2022 at E-WERK Freiburg. SKIN DIVING is an expansive staging that combines elements of both works into an immersive overall experience.
Resembling an organism, the two dancers Anna Kempin and Kirill Berezovski unite on stage, search for closeness, strive apart again and repel each other. The energetic, thoroughly sensory body language visualizes the oscillating stages of intimacy. Breath, body sounds and the rhythmic heartbeat of the two actors are formed by digital technology (Ephraim Wegner and Daniel Bisig) into a sound and image backdrop that creates a feeling of immediacy in the auditorium. Audience and performers penetrate the mutually protective skin layer by layer.
The corresponding varying visualization and sonification is computer generated and already interconnected in its creation. The floor is used as a projection surface for the video projections. Spatial constellations, movements and physical processes of the performers are translated as an expression of emotional processes with the help of machine-supported learning processes, which are part of the research project ARTIFICIAL INTIMACY.
The aim of SKIN DIVING is to create a connection between stage space and interaction space with the artists and the audience. How can intimacy be explored in dance and with the use of technological tools, and how can intimacy be created and transported between artists, artwork and audience?
