LIVING FORMS / LEBENDIGE FORMEN is an Interactive Multimedia Dance Piece using Motion Capture Technology inspired by the works of the Bauhausschüler and Star-Architect Hubert Hoffmann (1904 – 1999)

Premiere @ LaStrada Festival Graz 2020

Director – Valentina Moar
Choreographer – Valentina Moar
Multimedia Interaction Design – Paolo Scoppola
Dance – Pierre-Yves Diacon and Valentina Moar
Hoffmann’s Voice – Jonathan Schimmer
Sounddesign – Marco Schretter
Lightdesign – Ralf Beyer

Thanks to:
Archive of the Neue Galerie Graz

Supported by:
Stadt Graz Kultur
Land Steiermark Kultur, Europa, Außenbeziehungen

In Cooperation with:
LaStrada Festival Graz 2020

Foto – Nikola Milatovic

SENESCENE is a real-time generative visualization for dance performance in cooperation with the Rhine-Waal University Of Applied Sciences / Kamp-Lintfort (GER) using Motion Capture Technology.

visual arts: Doaa Darwish
visual arts supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ido Iurgel
choreography: Valentina Moar
dance: Lihito Kamiya

„Nowadays,the most common way to incorporate visuals in any dance performance usually would be designing a per-rendered moving images that were done specifically for a fixed choreography or vice versa by creating a choreography for certain visuals,which usually project on the background while the dancers performing their choreography.
However, the use of digital media in performing art which the of it is to express and evokes emotions can overlay an cyber feeling on the whole performance,espcially with those per-rendered visual where everything is design and calculated.
‚Senescence‘ aims to explore new more options out the previous paradigms in interactive visualization in performing art, humanizing the digital aspects and emphasizing the “live” aspects in those type of performances“, Doaa Darwish 2017

Bodyscapes – Embodied Generative Music

Valentina Moar dancer/choreographer @ Embodied Generative Music (EGM) research project. The project, funded from September 2007 until April 2010 by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and hosted at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM), carried out basic research into (1) new means of artistic expression and (2) musical experience. It combined practical (artistic) and theoretical (philosophical and musicological) research strands, centered around applied phenomenological work and artistic research in a designated aesthetic lab.

project-website: egm.iem.at

Valentina Moar – Choreographer/Dancer @ Rebody

Rebody (2010) by Gerhard Eckel, Michael Schwab und David Pirrò is a video and an installation piece in which the captured motion of a dancer is transformed into a dynamic drawing that informs a musical composition.

The piece explores the dance movements, the drawing algorithms and the musical structures in an attempt to create aesthetic resonances and convergences. The work investigates how structured creative processes can transpose rather than represent the dancer’s movements. Rebody is based on motion-capture data collected from Bodyscapes (2009), an intermedial dance solo performance by Valentina Moar (choreography/dance), Gerhard Eckel and David Pirrò (composition).

https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/94540/94541

On The Edge – A Digital Dance Performance (2008)

Valentina Moar – Choreographer/Dancer
David Pirrò – Multimedia Interaction/Composition