Orbital 2010

“It is the coast which slips by if we keep our eyes fixed on the rail, and the boat which glides along if we look at the coast.”

- Merleau-Ponty M. 1945. The Phenomenology of Perception.

For Orbital a circular video depicting a dancer is projected onto the floor of a gallery space. Both the movements of the dancer & the camera’s point of view react to the motion of the viewer as they move around the projection.

Credits

Concept and Installation: Nic Sandiland

Choreography: Yael Flexer

Interactive sound score: Nye Parry

Performers: Lyndsey McConville, Aya Kobayashi, Lyndsey McConville, Yael Flexer, Alonna Flexer Sandiland & Aneta Szydlak

Funded by Arts Council England, Commissioned by Woking Dance Festival

Presentations

2013 City Moves, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen

2012 Somatics & Technology Conference, Chichester University

2012 British Dance Edition, Stratford, London

2011 The Brindley Arts Centre, Runcorn

2010 Oxford City Gallery, Oxford

2010 The Lightbox, Woking

2010 The Place Theatre, London

2010 Stone Squid Gallery, Hastings