[Текст доступен только на английском языке] "Beyond the body" is a poetic and political act. A celebration of the flesh, which through experience sensorial calls the audience to observe the invisible: the life that passes through us, precedes us, resists us. On stage there is a performer, who represents the individual as a community. A body that moves in space, a body that vibrates, pulsates, breathes: its presence propagates in the air as particles light. In this project the graphic visual merges with dance and music to explore that dimension suspended between visible and invisible: what animates us, connects us, makes us human. A recall
to the living and brilliant presence of what often escapes the gaze. A body vibrates, dances, simply exists, thus becomes a bridge between form and meaning, between gesture and meaning, between the human and that that we have forgotten about the human.
Performance is based on the use of sensors capable of transforming data in real time biological and movement of the performer in clouds of digital particles projected into space scenic. Every gesture, every jolt, every tension generates a visual vibration: a body that expands, shatters, lights up.
The visual is created through generative graphics engines, such as TouchDesigner, which through the use of body mapping techniques, carried out through the use of a Kinect, Lidar software, image processing, and the application of different textures that change mainly based on music and
his movement. Energy, the internal movement of the body become light projected onto the surface behind the performer: swarms of dots, waves, sparks compose and break down into a thousand games of light. The body is no longer just a subject but a visual generator, a living landscape that tells his inner story. The sound system accompanies and amplifies the experience, the music external merges with internal: the heartbeat can become a chest, the breath a texture, the electrical impulse a reverberation.
The body is both choreography and musical instrument. Intent is not spectacularizing technology but using it to convey research: what does it mean, today, to be human? In an age where we are constantly tracked, measured, quantified, we want to overturn the paradigm. Not a body under surveillance, but a body that shines with its vulnerability, with the its fragile and powerful presence.
At a time in history when humanity seems to be dehumanizing, it is necessary to change perspective, return to that molecular biology we are made of, enter the dimension of the infinitely small to grasp the infinitely large, that miraculous essence of life, that unfathomable mystery, that spark that animates us and makes us conscious beings in a world always less conscious of his own horrors. Here then is the body chasing its own human form, in a getting lost to have to find yourself, in an almost cellular dance, searching for new connections in a hyperconnected time that sees us too often disconnected from ourselves and therefore from others. Here then the need to stop, slow down to be able to perceive oneself, to be able to truly see oneself without the use of the mind, alone and only through the body, up to the cells of which it is composed, to rediscover its miracle, harmony, beauty, as if wanting to reshape and heal the short circuits of reality for reconnect with ourselves, with a new way of feeling and seeing, transformed.
