Project X Presents is an extraordinary collective of musicians, VJ’s, comedians, engineers, fundraisers, performers, set designers, builders and others who put on ambitious event experiences. Their last event, titled Digital Dystopia, featured the following beautiful dance piece (link to video):
The Project X Presents website explains that this piece was part of:
a strand of work coordinated by Leon Trimble aka VJ Chromatouch and featuring the combined talents of Leon himself with the music and piano playing of Rich Batsford and choreography from Lisa Natasha Wetton
The two dancers are Julia Griffin and Paris Thomas-Wade.
The piece is also an excellent example of how to integrate technology into dance:
The dancers motion was tracked via infra-red cameras and the visuals were projected directly onto their bodies. The colours for the visuals were created using a scheme devised by Leon to match the colour spectrum with the aural spectrum with the input coming via a midi connection from Rich’s digital piano.
The pianist, Rich Batsford, has written about this on his own blog too.
The next Project X Presents event, Xhibition, will take place in and around Moseley Village on May 9th 2009 and will feature another incarnation of the collaboration, to be performed upstairs at The Cross.
