Halo in Performance (1998)
Installation: Simon Biggs
Choreography: Sarah Rubidge, in collaboration with the performers
Soundscape: Stuart Jones
Performers: Sue Hawksley, Clair Luiten, Luca Sylvestrini
Performed at Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton, England, November 27th and 28th 1998.
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Halo in Performance is a work for 'cyberdancers' and live dancers. The performers use structured improvisation as a means of engaging in a dialogue with Simon Biggs's installation Halo. The installation features digitised images of the live performers and is mounted as an independent audience-directed interactive installation, in which structured performances can take place. Digitised video images of the performers are projected onto two 14m x 10m screens set opposite to each other in the installation space. Each screen displays three independent digitised versions of each of the live dancers, creating nine cyberdancers on each screen. The cyberdancers perform simple movements sequences, walking, standing, 'flying', falling, which are combined and recombined into longer sequences. In the performance the digitised figures become integrated into the choreographic form as they respond to the movement of the live performers in the space in an on-going interactive interplay between live and digitised performers. The live performers simultaneously interact with each other. Because the structures of the improvisation have been designed for the installation intricate details of the installation which may not be accessed in regular viewer interactions are brought into focus as the performances take place.