The Improper Point A/S/V fuses movement, sound, and image in real-time: an auditory (A), somatic (S) and visual (V) composition that, in a resonant exercise, registers, activates and re-signifies choreography.

The experience of a body in the effort of self-perception that shares with us diverse places of entrance, discoveries and revelations. An invitation to enter a laboratory in which the perception of the moving body is distorted, trained and tuned up at the same time, proposing new sensitivities. An experience that questions the self-awareness and the identity built over projections commonly assumed, proposing a journey to other possible versions: how much of us is extraneous? What is true and where to find it?

ABOUT THE WORK:

The Improper Point puts in relation the choreographic work with sound explorations and visual materials, through several common vectors: the idea of the body as fragment (always unfinished), the shifting scales (from a micro to an expanded image), the inner-external relation (from our caverns to the public space) and the investigation of textures and their resonance (sound, movement and image informing themselves at the same time).

These vectors or ideas are activated on stage –at a physical, sound and visual level– with the support of various technologies (all visible and operated by the performer) that help to capture, expand, fragment and share physical memories, offering experiences of the body that result diverse, very divergent, but at the same time very faithful to the real.

Some of these technologies activated on stage are: a digital stethoscope that sends out sounds of the interior of the body, auscultated in real time; a microscope that shows expanded images of small organic samples; a collection of photographies of parts of the body projected in big scale; a pair of binaural headphones reproducing the auditory experience of the performer; a camera that offers the image of the scene, duplicating the moving body that observes itself.

Movement, sound and image are generated and placed in relation by the performer on the stage, approximating us to the tools of live cinema and sound composition in real time.

Credit
concept & performance_ Javier Martín production_ Sabela Mendoza sound design_ Adolfo García light design_ Octavio Mas accompaniment_ Pep Ramis sound concept & stage set_ Javier Martín video & photo_ Leo López costumes_ ferdy, Cremallera Studio, Anna Whirling anechoic camera_ Centre for Research in Telecommunication Technologies, Atlanttic - University of Vigo (Spain) artistic residencies_ Etopía, Art & Technology Centre, Trayectos Festival,  Zaragoza (Spain); L’animal a l’esquena, Girona (Spain); Guelra, Gnration,  Braga (Portugal); A Casa Vella, Amiadoso (Spain) production support_ A Coruña City Council mobility support_ AC/E Acción Cultural Española - PICE Mobility Programme; INAEM Ministry of Culture (Spain)
“This project  was supported by a grant from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E).”

Date and Time: 9 Nov at 12:00
Venue: Jim Thompson Art Center