Performance in Playground Dance Project
Movement Collaborator: Em Zinn
Photos by Todd Collins
Video by Eudonerio Quiroz
This process used a heart rate monitor on the dancer and infrared camera on stage to connect the projections, audio, and movement through a live biofeedback system. The dancer used movement and breath to control her heart rate and at the same time danced in response to the visuals and sounds created by her heart. I’ve been obsessed with the gentle rhythms of the heart, how they make waves in water and electromagnetic fields around our bodies. This project was a proof-of-concept attempt to make those subtle influences visible and tell a story with technology that is inherently reflexive, turning us back towards the body even as the technology amplifies what is already here.
Kara Komarnitsky 