Malpais
Siri surrounded by voices
Siri surrounded by voices
Modern Dance Performance
Recoil Performance Group, Vinter 2011
A reactive projection scenography for a Recoil Performance Group dance performance. Developed with choreographer Tina Tarpgaard and programmer Jonas Jongejan.
Malpais is a search to understand the anatomy of fear, in society as well as for the individual in different cultures.
Through documentary style video and a physical research on the anatomy of fear, the performance combines reality, satire and fiction to address one of the most used power tools in history: Our fear.
The performance is based on the idea of creating a travelling concept that collects and frames the fears and dystopian stories in 3 different countries: Denmark, Jordan and Honduras. The first performance in the trilogy, was created and performed in Copenhagen and was created on the basis of interviews with more than a 100 Danes in the age range from 5 to 80.
The software is open source and we are very grateful to the openFrameworks community, whose efforts form the basis of our programming work. The software for Malpais builds on our move into Cocoa and Objective-C from Fuck You Buddy. We intergrate openFrameworks into a cocoa-based Mac OS X Snow Leopard application running on a mac pro seeing the dancers through a Kinect camera, showing the openGL graphics using a video projector, shooting diagonally onto the white line dance floor. We also built a mobile box with a built-in back projection against a transparent screen, strong enough for the dancers to lean against. The projectors have 0.7 wide angle optics and the software is qued from qLab using apple’s midi networking capabilities.
Performances
03 2011 Dansescenen, Dansehallerne, Copenhagen
Requirements
- Recent generation Apple Mac Pro
- 1 Kinect
- 2 Videoprojectors, min. 10.000 ansi lumens with 0.7 optics
- Conventional as well as led based lighting fixtures attached to a GrandMA lighting desk
- Three talented dancers and performers
Video
Video by Søren Meisner
Video by Recoil Performance Group
Links
Malpais at Recoil Performance Group
Jonas Jongejan
Source Code
The source code is available at GitHub.
It’s messy, things get rough when coding up until the last day before a premiere, but it’s there. Run at your own risk.
the apps compile on a Mac using Xcode. You also need open frameworks. While the code is full of all kinds of nice trickeries, the application itself is not of much use outside the scope of our performance. apart from a quite big space and a professional dance company, it works tightly together with custom hardware and third party apps such as qlab – not even mentioning the lib dependencies…
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