Gravity Shift by Flexer & Sandiland. A male figure wearing jeans and light blue top moves in a black space. On the floor a square is marked out by white lines.

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

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