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MOTION CAPTURE - INTERFACE FOR THE BODY-THAT-MAKES-SPACE
Foreword
on SYLVATICA the performance
In
2002 Altroteatro Company, directed by Lucia Latour, together with researchers
from the IUSM's Computer science and biomechanics lab, directed by Aurelio
Cappozzo, co-undertook a series of formative experiences, which from Physico's
production on stage (2001-2002) were carried out in the IUSM, University of Motor
Sciences, and focused on a research led by the laboratory through the use of motion
capture technology.
An interesting collaboration was delineated within the
IUSM between the scientific field of bio-engineering and the artistic field of
dance and architecture predisposing the constitution of a team of research aimed
for the realization of the pilot study "Motion Capture, interface for the
body-that-makes-space" founded on the use of Motion Capture Animation in
relation to the human body and space that interact live on stage. The research
foresees production of interactive performances, SYLVATICA being the first in
programme.
SYLVATICA
CHOREOGRAPHY
SYLVATICA
is staged live
It presents itself as a tangle of trajectories among per-formative
bodies that are, dance, sound, architecture, motion capture and motion graphics.
As
a performance it is organised with a high level of flexibility and internal modification.
SYLVATICA
is a living system.
The many bodies that constitute the system unfold into
one another and, as in 3D animation software, they use the "capture",
multiplied by the reversible states of perception, in a combination of deformable
matters and physical forces.
The choreography is the generator of the fusion
among all the creative fields involved and it progresses with these in live networks
that organise the "intelligent" environment necessary to what happens
before, during and after the performance.
SYLVATICA lives in an interactive
environment and its name informs of its availability to change according to the
habitat it is offered.
Lucia Latour
april 2003
ARCHITECTURE
SYLVATICA
conforms like a stratified organism that can be lived in and in turn live in different
topological profiles that also live in the dance.
Generally in the stratified
state the bodies present a greater extension on the horizontal plane, and a sequence
of co-presences is generated, whose temporality is always reversible, from the
emergent layer to the ground (which also tolerates the organic chaos as a source
of its vitalistic auto-alimentation).
The stadium of living matter has to co-habit
with its transition to the digital form (dematerialised) in a spatial condition
where perhaps it is possible that the representation of this coupling is activated
without encountering obstacles, producing rather a simultaneous elaboration between
the revealing and the manifesting of the space-body.
Orazio
Carpenzano april 2003
MOTION
CAPTURE
SYLVATICA
can be seen, but most of all it sees, elaborates, transforms and reproposes. Its
eyes, faster than ours, capture essential details of the choreography by Lucia
Latour and of the layered organism by Orazio Carpenzano. Its electronic brain,
faster than ours, using the information and sensitivity with the motion graphics
instilled by Flaviano Pizzardi, is able to repropose purified stimuli to the spectator,
stimuli that are thus deprived of a granted anthropomorphism, in which human body
and space mould in a unique vital form, with music by David Barittoni and lighting
by Lïoc Hamelin. All of this in the presence of an audience. If the motion capture
technology will show those limits, that nevertheless we find flattering, and they
will refuse to act simultaneously with the dancers, no fear, the human brain,
even in its own time, will find remedy without a any great loss since that technology
has already been exploited in a vital exercise of microscopic motility and it
will be easy to share that experience on stage.
Aurelio
Cappozzo april 2003
REVERSIBLE
BODIES
A workshop that integrates dance, architecture,
motion capture and motion graphics
led
by: Lucia Latour, Orazio Carpenzano, Giuseppe Vannozzi
in collaboration with:
Francesco Castellett, Flaviano Pizzardi, David Barittoni
coordinated by: Simonetta
Lux
organised by: ALTROTEATRO dance company, IUSM - computer science and biomechanics
lab, and POOL FACTORY
in collaboration with: University of Rome
"LA
SAPIENZA" -Department of Human Sciences - Course of study in Historic and
Artistic Sciences
Altroteatro
Company
largo arenula
34, 00186 Roma
tel./fax+39.06.6875967
altroteatro@katamail.com
am.dg@mclink.it
production:
Altroteatro,
2003
in collaboration with "TSI - La Fabbrica
dell'Attore" - VascelloTheatre
- Rome (IT)
choreography:
Lucia Latour
architecture:
Orazio Carpenzano
live
electronic music: David Barittoni
lighting:
Loïc Hamelin
motion capture:
IUSM - University of Motor Sciences
- Computer science and biomechanics lab
motion
capture operator: Francesco Castellett
motion
capture system: SMART
(eMotion-Padova)
motion
graphics: POOL FACTORY
dancers:
Stefania Brugnolini, Morgana Farci, Valeria Gargaro, Luisa Lazzaro, Vera Maglioni,
Cristina Morelli, Paola Sorressa, Simona Zaccagno
clothing:
Lucia Latour
tailor: Anna Cesari
stage
materials: Lucia Latour, Luana Piermarini
realisation
of prototype: Alessandra Di Giacomo
photos:
Massimiliano Botticelli
collaborating:
Domenico Cherubini,
_Carlo Minganti - IUSM
_Tiziana
Barcaroli, Cristina Nisticò, Daniele Zacchi - Stage Pool Factory
_Cristna Falasca
- Stage Altroteatro
website
e multimedia CD: Alessandro Uliana
administration and scene director: Luana Piermarini
organisation
and press: Anna Maria De Gregorio
Forthcoming
events:
Performances 2003
5,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 July, 9:30 pm
6, 13 July, 6:00 pm
VASCELLO THEATRE
Via
G. Carini 72 - Rome (IT)
Workshop 2003
10,
11July, from 10.30 am until 1.30pm
VASCELLO THEATRE
Via G. Carini 72 - Rome
(IT)
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