“Body Navigation,” from the Recoil Performance Group, is an interactive dance installation that was part of Danish Dance Theatre’s “Labyrinth” performance, which premiered this past May in Copenhagen:

Body Navigation is based on responsive digital media that allows for the dancers to create graphics with their movements in the stage environment around them. Based on rules and structured in a game-like manner, the installation makes way for a playful dialog between the video artist and the dancers.

Body Navigation by Recoil Performance Group from ole kristensen on Vimeo.

Ole Kristensen, one of the installation’s video designers, provides a brief technical overview of the tools used to create the infrared tracking and interactive video projection:

We used Processing for the infrared blobtracking of the dancers and drawing the open gl graphics. During the performance video designer Tina Tarpgaard controlled the whole thing live from an Isadora-based interface via osc.

Danish Dance Theatre’s Labyrinth

New York City-based Chris Elam, artistic director, Misnomer Dance Theatre, was one of the choreographers participating in the creation of Danish Dance Theatre’s “Labyrinth.”

Here’s a promotional/excerpt clip of “Labyrinth”:

[posted by Doug Fox on Great Dance]