Rebody

Video Installation

Gerhard Eckel, David Pirrò, Michael Schwab

Ghent (Belgium) 2010.

Rebody is a video installation in which the captured motion of a dancer (Valentina Moar) is transformed into a dynamic drawing that, in turn, feeds a musical composition. The installation shows sets of experimental variations that explore the dance movements, the drawing algorithms and the musical structures in an attempt to create aesthetic resonances and convergences. The work investigates how structured creative processes can transpose, rather than represent, the dancer's movements. There exists also a performance version of Rebody, which has been presented together with the installation version at the 2010 Research Festival of the Orpheus Research Center in Music (ORCiM ) in Ghent. Rebody is based on motion-capture data collected from Bodyscapes (2009), an intermedial dance solo performance by Valentina Moar (choreography/dance), Gerhard Eckel and David Pirrò (composition).

Video Performance Version