Gesture & Trace
Rochelle Haley
In collaboration with Inês Tarouca, Joana Ratão,
Patrícia Cabral and Priscilla Carbone
June 2010
Gesture & Trace
In a collision between dance and drawing, the movements of a dancer are transformed into a series of lines drawn live by the artist (Rochelle Haley). Drawing with both hands simultaneously, the artist tracks the movement of two points on the dancer’s body. The drawing is filmed from above and is projected onto a wall via a live feed. Other dancers then use the drawn lines as visual cues to interpret their own movement.
‘Gesture & Trace’ investigates drawing as an embodied and performance based activity. The methodology, maintaining a direct material interaction with the drawn line, explores relationships between the visual graphic mark and dance-based motion. The experimental pairing of dance and drawing provides space to explore complex and figurative interactions between the visual and performing arts. At the heart of this project is the reciprocity between the body, motion and line.
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In a collision between dance and drawing, the movements of a dancer are transformed into a series of lines drawn live by the artist (Rochelle Haley). Drawing with both hands simultaneously, the artist tracks the movement of two points on the dancer’s body. The drawing is filmed from above and is projected onto a wall via a live feed. Other dancers then use the drawn lines as visual cues to interpret their own movement.
‘Gesture & Trace’ investigates drawing as an embodied and performance based activity. The methodology, maintaining a direct material interaction with the drawn line, explores relationships between the visual graphic mark and dance-based motion. The experimental pairing of dance and drawing provides space to explore complex and figurative interactions between the visual and performing arts. At the heart of this project is the reciprocity between the body, motion and line.
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