Performance

Palindrome:
Interactive danceworks 2001-2003

As part of this year's festival, German inter-media performance group Palindrome will present an interactive performance that uses dance movement to control and create a layered environment of video projections, sound and lighting. The show, which contains seven works, is an anthology of the company's pioneering work with human movement and new media.

Palindrome aestheticizes information by using both biological sensors and video camera-based technologies (the conversion software is of the company's own design). The piece "Touching", for example, uses hidden electical sensors attached to the dancers' bodies. The sound score as well as live video images are made sensitive to body contact between the two dancers. What are normally minute and intimate experiences between two people are thus amplified and shared by an audience.

Palindrome has been called "an orchestra... where the dancers play imaginary instruments that are both optically and acoustically fascinating..." and "a funny and intelligent experiment that resolves the apparent contradictions of the analytical and intuitive mind, between abstract number-material and passionate feelings..." (Nürnberger Nachrichten & Zürcher Oberländer respectively).

With the cooperation of the Goethe Institute, Subtle Technologies is proud to bring Palindrome to Canada. As recipients of numerous awards, including first prizes for Interactive Art at the Berlin Transmediale 2002 and for Multi-media achievement from the European CYNET art Festival for Computer Art in 2000, Palindrome has been invited to perform all over the world, including Buenos Aires, Paris, Berlin, Edinburgh and Havana, Cuba.

For members of the press: www.palindrome.de/tourrelease.htm