Communicating with all of our parts
Malmö, 21 August – Hi! My name is Sarah, I am originally trained as a contemporary dancer and choreographer. My performance work often looks at self-representation and how we use technology to see ourselves from an outside eye. In my latest dance performance “Communicating with all of our parts” I used gesture technology to document the […]
Malmö, 21 August – Hi! My name is Sarah, I am originally trained as a contemporary dancer and choreographer. My performance work often looks at self-representation and how we use technology to see ourselves from an outside eye. In my latest dance performance “Communicating with all of our parts” I used gesture technology to document the creation and development, an experience that resulted is a vlog series I would like to share with you.
Exploring movements
I used my ten-day choreographic residency at Danscentrum Syd, Malmö, to explore some ideas about robots. I was inspired by the definition of robot as a “machine that is programmable by a computer”. I began to think about how many of my own physical actions are programmed by a computer. This led me to question the categorical differences between humans and robots.
GoCam as a choreographic tool?
I used the GoCam app from Crunchfish both to document my work for others by making vlogs, but also as a choreographic tool for myself. I often work alone and create solo performances. This means that in order to be able to get some idea of what the performance looks like from an outside eye I film myself and then watch it back afterwards. Being able to interact with my camera device from a distance without having to leave the space I was dancing in was very useful for me.
I hope you follow my journey as I create my dance performance “Communicating with all of our parts”. For more information about me,
visit sarahhomewood.com
