Choreographer Agata Maszkiewicz and digital artist Albena Baeva worked together for a month in Athens. During the research process Albena presented to Agata Runabout Project’s invention, the Mocapton. This is a motion-capture costume designed as a musical instrument for interactive dance performances. For almost a month the Mocapton was the Read more…
The performance Sudden Streets tells a story of happenstance, of unexpected meetings and their consequences. The performance is an improvisation based on the eponymous novel by Ivanka Mogilska. It uses a modified typewriter and a kalimba. During the performance, we open the book at random pages and read a fragment. 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.
We live in a time when we have ever-increasing possibilities to talk, but ever decreasing chances to have a conversation, making it a real challenge to reach an audience through poetry. Presenting poetry in the form of a book locks the words away between its covers and confines them. That Read more…
This is the video from the presentation of the first dance lab of Runabout project. The dancers who took part had the chance to gain first-hand experience of some of the Runabout project’s technology. They could try out how their own movements and body influenced the video and sound environment. Read more…
The Bergeron Experiment was shown at the second edition of Da-fest in 2010 in gallery “Academy”, Sofia. The Bergeron Experiment is inspired by the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. Albena Baeva and Petya Boyukova team up with Andronia Popova, front-woman of Nasekomix. Bergeron Experiment features a custom-built electronic Read more…
A performance by Runabout project at Weeky Freaky, Kaliakria, Bulgaria, 2010 This is an audio-visual improvisation, a performnance that uses sound to control video projection in real time, using PureData. An acoustic guitar is used to mix and apply effects on the video thus connecting the two media in a Read more…
The performance Empty Set is based on the mathematical definition of the empty set. We develop an interactive control between the different sets on the stage. The musical instrument is transformed into control of the real-time video mix. Separate visual and auditory elements are connected on the principle of confrontation Read more…
Fear as the only saving power of the self, mind travelling as the only possible way to escape collapse.This was the beginning of the Runabout project. For these series of performances, we built an electric contrabass guitar made of glass. The visual part was a real-time video mix of animation, Read more…