Living Room

Norrdans

Härnösand, Sweden

It consists of live performance and interactive installation.

The first part of the show is a performance where dancers compose and construct the movement with lively captured images of themselves. All the captured images are modified using computer programming, and adding effects like delay, feedback, or edge detection creates a unique visual experience for the viewers.

The second part of the show is an interactive installation. The performance space opens up for the audience member to explore the same visual effect that appears in the performance.

I I I I

JMD, Academie voor Theater en Dans

Amsterdam, Netherlands

It was inspired by Bridget Riley's painting works.

My interest in this work was to find a ways to transcribe her simple form of painting into dance language. The work consists of simple movements and involves repetitive pattern and variations that aim to be harmonized as well as visually stimulating.

"Rhythm and repetition are at the root of movement. They create a situation within which the most simple basic forms start to become visually active. By massing them and repeating them, they become more fully present. Repetition acts as a sort of amplifier for visual events which seen singly would hardly be visible. But to make these basic forms release the full visual energy within them, they have to breathe, as it were - to open and close, or to tighten up and then relax. A rhythm that's alive has to do with changing pace and feeling how the visual speed can expand and contract - sometimes go slower and sometimes go faster. The whole thing must live.”

by Bridget Riley.

4 × 4

Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz

Köln, Germany

It was created with the interest to explore ways in which the music of Steve Reich can be transcribe into dance choreography.

The work intensely focused on the relationship between movement and phrasing in regards to visual harmony and is constructed through the use of repetition and various canonic patterns.

The aim of this work is to arouse optical experience for the spectator and to bring its the concept forefront. Thus that the concept and compositional process happening throughout the choreography become one and same thing.

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　Theater Vorpommern

Greifswald, Germany

It was influenced by chance operation method that John Cage was used to compose his music. It created in a way that composition of the work appears differently each performance while dancers follow their choreography precisely. The silence, stillness in the choreography used as equal, „lively“ compositional material which based on the idea that there is never be silence or stillness in the things.

"The essential underlying idea is that each thing is itself, that its relation with other things spring up naturally rather than being imposed by any abstraction on an artist’s part.”

by John Cage.

Land

Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz

Köln, Germany

It was inspired by the interest in the short story “How much land does man need?”

by Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

In this short story I find themes of human desire and need for ownership which I believe open up relevant and fundamental questions about humanity in our contemporary society. For this choreographic work, twenty-one tables are used to represent and differentiate between what is owned and what is not owned.

The movement material used in this work was also created through research on actions of ownership. For the structure and composition of this work was strongly influenced by the two dominant factor: attending to the sounds the dancers and tables created while in movement and by exploration of how space could be shaped through varying configurations of tables and bodies.

SIDE

Copenhagen, Denmark

It interpreters by two dancers and it choreographed only on the two linear space.

The light on the floor is to emphasize the idea of two lines and by narrowing the possibility of spatial composition to seek new relation with the space in choreography.

Dancers move as unit on each line with synchronized movement which requires to sense each other, thereby it highlight the communication between dancers and evoke possibility of subtle communication between others.

It explores various range of interpretation within dance material and situation which focused on the between moment. 

The title of this work came from Japanese word Samazama which means Various. It also could divided in two part and Sama refer to subjective visualization, interpretation of people, situation or object and Zama refer to objective view of the space.

A Notion of the Tides

Hannover, Germany

It is worked on the concept of Dynamic Balance which is a term used in architect, physics or mechanics.

Dynamic Balance explained as two elements that constantly in motion and yet balancing each other. The work specially focused on the notion of logic and emotion to explore the beauty in between or in contradiction as two balancing elements.

This work has created within Think Big Hannover Residency Project and showed as part of Tanztheater International Hannover.

Ugoku

Stockholm, Sweden

It performed by three dancers who usually work in different styles.

The piece explores the way to approach movement from different perspectives, researching a common place, with its own style, by the dancers sharing choreographic movement but still retaining their individuality.

Little Girl Blue

Cartaxo, Portugal

It was inspired by the images of padrão and warmness of Portugal.