Body Navigation

Dancer caught in own cobweb

Dancer caught in own cobweb

Dance Installation

Recoil Performance Group, Spring 2008

A reactive floorprojection for a Recoil Performance Group dance performance/installation. Developed with choreographer Tina Tarpgaard and programmer Jonas Jongejan.

Two dancers and their digital reproduction are the scenographic frame of this humorous and emotional portrait of human relations. Based on rules and structured in a game like manner, the installation makes way for a playful dialog between the man, woman and the digital “footprints” they leave behind.

The Body Navigation performance was originally part of a larger installation and modern dance performance in Copenhagen, by Tim Rushton, Danish Dance Theatre called Labyrint.

We used processing for the infrared blobtracking of the dancers and drawing the open gl graphics. During the performance Tina controlled the whole thing live from an Isadora-based interface via osc.

Performances

06 2010 Dance Digital, the Hat Factory, Luton
01 2010 Plaza+ festival, Plaza Futura, Eindhoven
10 2009 Kedja, KHiO, Oslo
12 2008 Histrionski dom, Zagreb
05 2008 Labyrint at Kaleidoskop K2, Copenhagen

Requirements

  • Recent generation Apple Mac with two sceens or MacBook Pro with extended desktop
  • Infrared cctv camera
  • Infrared flood light
  • Videoprojector, min. 10.000 ansi lumens
  • 7 x 5,25 m floor space covered with white dance vinyl.
  • App. 7 meters vertical space, depending on projector and camera optics.
  • Low-latency Imaging Source DFG/1394-1e video grabber with 3rd party Mac driver
  • Isadora license

Video from Labyrint, Copenhagen

Video by Ole Kristensen

Video of full performance, as staged in Zagreb

Video by Ole Kristensen

Photos

All photos by Jonas Jongejan

Links

Body Navigation at Recoil Performance Group

Labyrint at Dansk Danseteater (in Danish)

Labyrith at Danish Dancetheatre (in English)



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  4. chunkymove have used similar technology for their works glow and mortal engine.

    the programmer is Frieder Weiss and he has made many interactive systems for dance.

  5. yep, i know about frieder weiss and his great software.
    in fact he helped us get the right infrared lighting gear.

  6. [...] forwarded the interesting Body Navigation. Reminded me the best execution I have ever seen (I was at the [...]

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  8. [...] Due ballerini e le proiezioni digitali sul pavimento sono la scenografica cornice di questa divertente ed emozionante performance prodotta dalla “Danish Dance Theatrer“, diretta da Tim Rushton, sviluppata con la coreografia di Tina Tarpgaard e la programmazione di Jonas Jongejan. L’installazione ha utilizzato Processing per il “blobtracking” dei danzatori con disegni in grafica Open GL. Durante l’esecuzione Tina Tarpgaard ha controllato tutta la performance in diretta con un’interfaccia in Isadora via osc. Pronti a danzare? Condividi questo articolo: Queste icone linkano i siti di social bookmarking sui quali i lettori possono condividere e trovare nuove pagine web. [...]

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  10. VERY well done!

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  12. Help-me please.

    Sou estudante de Ciência da Computação e meu projeto final é sobre Imagem e Interação.

    Preciso urgente de livros sobre o assunto, porém aqui no Brasil não tem material traduzido para português.
    Como faço para comprar os livros citados no site ?
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  13. [...] o vídeo abaixo e veja mais informações no site de Ole Kristensen. Mais fotos neste set do flickr. Coreografia de Tina Tarpgaard e música por Athelas [...]

  14. [...] I also found some really nice examples of processing being used in the design world. Ole Kristensen produced a video entitled ‘Body Navigation’  which has some brilliant examples of how processing can manipulate what a camera sees and then project a reaction on any surface. Check out the video HERE [...]

  15. magical – wonderful – thankyou

  16. [...] love to see it in action on a public dance floor! Check out the video, more images and tech-tips at Ole Kristensens website Post to… These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new [...]

  17. [...] a preview of the performance below, and more informatino in Ole’s website. There are some cool photos of the event in this flickr [...]

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  21. [...] Watch a preview of the performance below, and more informatino in Ole’s website.” [...]

  22. AMAZING! really want to see it live. Are you guys touring with this installation?

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  27. [...] Navigation é um projecto verdadeiramente interessante, numa colaboração conjunta de Ole Kristensen, Jonas Jongejan, a coreografa Tina Tarpgaard, e a Recoil Performance Group. Projecção reactiva no [...]

  28. [...] Infrared Tracking and Interactive Video Projection, developed by Ole Kristensen and Jonas Jongejan. Body Navigation by Recoil Performance Group. See more photos of this event in this flickr [...]

  29. [...] Body Navigation [ole kristensen] A reactive floorprojection for a Recoil Performance Group dance performance/installation. Developed with choreographer Tina Tarpgaard and programmer Jonas Jongejan. (tags: video art installation interactive projection performance tracking) [...]

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  38. [...] and during my research i came across the code made by professional dancers using processing and it was reallly great i loved the way the comp and the dancers intereact with each other. Body Navigation [...]

  39. Just wondering what cctv camera you guys using? so many… which one is the best?

    Thanks

    Sorry for my bad english…

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  43. [...] Le Recoil Performance Group utilise une installation interactive pour une chorégraphie qui joue avec les ombres des danseurs et des formes graphique interactives. L’installation repose sur Processing, et Isadora, elle est expliquée sur leur site. [...]

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i work creatively with computers, art, theatre and performance.

in school i was curious enough to know the answers before the questions came before me in print. in university i was curious enough to question the answers print produced. both to my own peril.

the best school so has so far been christiania, since i am far to interested in politics, and try to learn why people cluster and act the way they do. hopefully shortterm powermongers are mistaken in the long run.

i enjoy mysteries, the only mystery greater than love, women and myself is the product thereof. there is no such thing as the eyes of a being which has not yet learned the difference between subject and object. i somehow relate to that. call it childish if you want.

there are plenty of borders to cross, even in the wake of globalisation. i have become aware that i am part of a travelling class, by meeting some of the people who aren’t. hopefully this can change.

keeping curiosity alive is my number one priority. the biggest source of pain is when i fail to grasp why stupidity arises. even when i don’t i always think there’s a why. why’s are complex, and there’s enough stuff for the curious in that for at least several eternities. believing outcomes have reasons that i can never know in their entirety is a substitute for faith in good vs. evil, a supreme being, the immutable order of things, or fate.

and hopefully i can still learn.