See a short version of Runabout’s performance The DNA of Words: The City, on Friday, February 8 2012, 7pm at Vlaikova Cinema. The performance will support the premiere of the documentary film “Marimba from hell”. The movie will be followed by a concert by Trendafil and Chugra. This is the Read more…
Mocapton is a motion-capture costume designed as a musical instrument for the interactive dance performance Azamen, by Runabout project. The Mocapton includes buttons and sensors that allow the two dancers in the performance to create, manipulate and compose music through their movements. The instrument consists of a combination of custom-built Read more…
Concept and ideas, interaction software, instruments’ design and building, animation and video, lyrics, vocals and percussion Albena Baeva works in the field of interactive design, experimental video and performance. In 2010 she graduated the master programme Digital Art at the Art Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria. Albena Baeva founded the Runabout Read more…
Concept, video editing, instruments’ design, scenography, costumes Petya Bouykova works as a scenographer. 2010 she graduated the master programme Scenography at the Art Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria. Petya creates video, costumes and scenography for Runabout project and participates in the performances of the group. She is author of the costumes Read more…
writer, director, voice Ivanka Mogilska is a writer who has published three books; the poetry collections In Other Words (Ed. “Janet 45”, 2010) and DNA (Ed. “Janet 45”, 2004), and the novel Hideaways (published “Janet 45”, 2007). She has collaborated with Albena Baeva on the site-specific intervention piece Universal Meeting. Read more…
dance, choreography Alexander Mandzhukov was choreographer and dancer in The Path to the Road across the River, with which he took part in the 8th Margarita Arnaoudova contemporary dance competition in 2011, in Bad Habit, together with Ana Miteva (2010), in Tell me about it, a performance by Vesselin Rankov, Read more…
Azamen is a series of interactive dance performances that use a special pair of wireless sensor costumes that connect the movements of the two dancers with a computer. The bodies are thus turned into musical instruments that are capable of capturing sounds and words, playing them over and over again, modulating and transforming them until they create the perfect audio environment for their dance.
Interactive dance performance The premiere of the interactive dance performance Azamen will take place on October 13, at 7pm, in the Chamber Hall of the Nikolai Binev Youth Theatre in Sofia. Artist Albena Baeva and scenographer Petya Boyukova have created a custom computer programme and special costumes that connect wirelessly Read more…
TM01 is a musical interface specially designed for the performance The DNA of Words. An old typewriter is enriched with sensors that allow sounds to be recorded and modified through a Puredata patch.