Gravity Shift 2010
Using a filmic technique originally devised by dancer Fred Astaire in the 1951 film Royal Wedding, Gravity Shift shows what appears to be a stationary floor on which dancers start to move in an exaggerated and unexpected manner.
The work is presented as a life-size projected video featuring a variety of dancers filmed on what is in fact a moving platform. The piece explores ways to kinaesthetically involve its viewers when watching movement on film.
Credits
Performers: Andrea Buckely, Aya Kobayashi, Carrie Whitaker, Luke Birch, Saju Hari, Gary Stevens, Guy Dartnell, Chris Copland
Artistic director: Nic Sandiland
Choreographic adviser: Yael Flexer
MotionBase team: Keith Parker, Alan Dobbie
Software Programmer: Sam Wane
Stage construction: Simon York, Miraculous Engineering
Funding and in kind support: CueSim, Landsdown Centre for Electronic Art, Staffordshire University, Arts Council England
Presentations
2016 Axis Arts Centre, Crewe
2015 Circus Gallery, London
2014 Brighton Digital Festival, The Dome, Brighton
2013 The Place Theatre, London
2013 Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds
2012 British Dance Edition, Stratford, London
2011 The Lightbox Gallery, Woking International Dance Festival
2011 Cinedans Festival, Amsterdam
2011 Digital Futures in Dance conference, Bournemouth
2010 Brunel University DRHA conference
2010 Otter Gallery, University of Chichester