Dance Traces #2 - Ritualistic Digital Action Paintings
/ Performance at Dansekraft Festival, Kunsthal NORD, Aalborg, DK

Collaboration with Sandro Masai and Silke Beckman

2024


“Dance Traces” is a performance that combines dance and technology through research to develop new possibilities and design paradigms for interaction and new compositional methods, including real-time processed sound and visuals.

The performance involves an interactive audiovisual system developed as an extension of Sandro Masai’s ritualistic action paintings, which explore Yoruban mythology, Afro-Brazilian ritual performance practice, and Afrofuturism.

The interactive augmented system consists of four layers: one performer wearing two ESP32 gloves on each hand, a fixed composed music score, sensor-triggered sound design based on the performer’s hand movements, and audio and movement reactive visualizations created with the use of a Kinect depth camera in TouchDesigner.