BODY / SITE / SEEN
2019, Multimedia dance performance with original score, 20 minutes
BODY/SITE/SEEN is a multimedia dance performance that explores ideas related to embodiment, point of view, and the act of seeing. In the performance, the live-streams of cameras attached to the dancers' bodies are projected onto the walls of the performance space. The cameras capture intimate landscapes of the body itself, as well as the body in relation to the other dancers and the space the body occupies. BODY/SITE/SEEN is a meditation on the bounded nature of embodiment and the fractional incompleteness of point of view.
BODY/SITE/SEEN was a workshop-project I directed in collaboration with UCLA Graduate Students from Design|Media Arts, World Arts & Culture/Dance, & the School of Music. The above performance took place on May 20, 2019, at UCLA’s Broad Art Center.
CREDITS
Concept, Direction, & Project Lead: Erin Cooney
Dancers & Choreography: Joey Navarrete-Medina, Sanchita Sharma, Marianna Varviani
Music Composition: Anthony Constantino
Multimedia: Erin Cooney (DMA), Zeynep Abes, Nate Mohler
Costuming & Lighting: Berfin Ataman
Documentation: Lawrence Dion Dabu, Zeynep Abes, Nate Mohler
Excerpts from the May 20, 2019 performance at the Broad Art Center, UCLA