Spheres
Charlotte Triebus
x MIREVI
Dance & Intelligent Objects, Stage, Installation
Three performers, five intelligent spheres and the audience share a space of movement and response.
- Performance Duration
- 30 minutes
- Format
- Performance and Installation
- Performance Configuration
- Three performers, five intelligent spheres and an audience
Spheres brings choreography into contact with robotics and questions of agency. Human bodies and spherical robots approach, follow and respond to one another, developing patterns of communication through movement and positioning.
The dancers work with a vocabulary of poses inspired by calibration gestures. The spheres respond through sensors and algorithms based on swarm behaviour. Their encounters explore how movement passes between different bodies, and how intimacy and communication emerge through interaction.
The work can be presented as a performance or an installation.
Performance & Installation
Spheres can be presented as a live performance or an installation.
Performance
A 30-minute encounter between three performers, five intelligent spheres and the audience. Movement and positioning become a shared language between bodies with different abilities.
Installation
The spheres inhabit the exhibition space beyond the live performances. At NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, the ongoing installation and a series of performances brought different rhythms of encounter into the same space.
Featurette
With subtitles
A closer look at the choreography and the encounter between performers and intelligent spheres.
Play featuretteTrailer
An introduction to the live performance.
Play trailer
“Modes of existence are always plural and relational, existence can be found not only in beings, but between them.”
Research & Process
How can performers, an audience and technology share agency? In Spheres, Triebus brings together bodies that sense, move and respond in different ways.
A shared movement languageThe dancers work with poses inspired by calibration gestures. The spheres follow swarm principles, using sensors and algorithms to respond through movement.
Encounters emerge through proximity, positioning and changing patterns of attention. Triebus investigates how dancers and robots communicate through distance, movement and changes of direction.
Agency between bodiesTriebus studies how the robots participate in a performance and how their movements affect the audience’s perception of the dancers.
Spheres developed through artistic and technical research at MIREVI. Earlier versions were shared through talks and presentations at tanzhaus nrw and HELLERAU, alongside the Moving Digits research context.
Artistic Research Rehearsal
August 2020
A longer rehearsal document from the development of Spheres.
Play artistic research rehearsal
Selected Presentations
27 August 2021 – 9 January 2022
2021
10 January 2020
Credits
- Concept and choreography
- Charlotte Triebus
- Creation and Performance
- Aaron Samuel Davis
Esther Siddiquie
Maayan Reiter - Live Cast
- Aaron Samuel Davis
Esther Siddiquie
Yurika Sophie Yamamoto
Juan Corres Benito - Production
- MIREVI Lab (HSD)
- Project Management
- Charlotte Triebus
- Dramaturgy and consultation
- Reut Shemesh
- Scientific Consultation
- Christian Geiger
- Software Development
- Naoto Hieda
- Technical Lead
- Alexander Giesbrecht
Christoph Vogel - Technical Implementation
- Daniel Trabitzsch
Fabian Büntig
Sven Heinen - Hardware Development
- Tennagels Medientechnik
Marco Strobel - Financial Management
- Ivana Druzetic
- Video Production
- Klangmalerei.tv
Nightfrog - Assistance
- Jonas Becker
Production & support
Produced by MIREVI Lab, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences.
Supported by Kunststiftung NRW, E.ON Stiftung, BMBF (GINA), EFRE and EU (MARTA, DISTEL), HSD (MIREVI), tennagels and NRW Forum.
