FALLING THROUGH THE FORCE OF GRAVITY (2000)
 
 

The installation combines dance and interactivity on exploration how personal history is constructed through corporeal memories and photographs.
Using photographs from their family albums as inspiration, dancers Pia Lindy and Fatou Traoré created two interactive choreographies.

The user connects up with the chosen dancer when jamming with her self-biographical choreographies.
By stepping on the carpet wired with four sensors, the user can control the dancers movements in the video screen. The choreography changes in rhythm with the user’s footsteps. The focus of the use is improvisation. Jamming with the projected characters the user uncovers their staged stories. The control cuts both ways: the user may think of the dancers as a marionettes, but the installation forces also him to move; the stories do not unfold without the activity of the user.