an interactive performance examining the connection between thought and action while figuring the digestion of the world, drawn with interactive media, movement, and new sound

movement...blindsight choreographer/dancer paige starling sorvillo
interactive audio...George Cremaschi
responsive environment...the League of Imaginary Scientists

 

Choreographer/dancer paige starling sorvillo moves within a drawn, responsive environment constructed live by The League of Imaginary Scientists and sound artist George Cremaschi.  Eating words and swallowing clouds, starling sorvillo brings her lexicon of animated gestures and expressions to contemporary Butoh.  Overlaid with scientific data, the live interaction relays the political and physical anatomy of consumption.

“Live Diagram” is an interactive performance examining the connection between thought and action while figuring the digestion of the world.  The piece is a collaboration between the League of Imaginary Scientists and blindsight and explores layered themes economic and biological consumption.  Choreographer/dancer paige starling sorvillo moves within a drawn, responsive environment constructed live by The League of Imaginary Scientists and sound artist George Cremaschi.  Eating words and swallowing clouds, starling sorvillo brings her lexicon of animated gestures and expressions to contemporary Butoh.  Overlaid with scientific data, the live interaction relays the political and physical anatomy of consumption.

The League of Imaginary Scientists concocts interdisciplinary research projects in collaboration with scientists, technologists, and artists engaged in many media.  Live Diagram contributing imaginary scientists are Doctors Aojiru, Chao Hwachung, and L. Hernandez Gomez.  Live Diagram collaborators are paige starling sorvillo, a 2007 CHIME awardee and artistic director of the performance collaborative blindsight, and versatile musician/composer George Cremaschi.

   

Performance at MilkBar 2007 Interanational Live Film Festival

www.imaginaryscience.org | www.blindsightperformance.org | www.paigesorvillo.com