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crisis erupts that pushes four office workers into turbulences. Overwhelming
noises of their actions suggest crushing danger and alternate with threatening
silence. Trying to survive, the office workers are finally using the spatial
elements and monotonous actions of a strict office situation in new and
untried ways to enter into a corporeal dynamic that gives new meaning
to their actions, interactions and lives. Within
the performance People in the Dunes seemingly disparate movements are
placed in an antagonistic environment and atmosphere of an office. In
this restraining space, dancers do unexpected, destabilizing movements,
and enter in some kind of game of power and vulnerability. They are using
the spatial elements and monotonous actions of a strict office situation
in new and untried ways, and in the end enter into a new spatial and corporeal
dynamic that gives new meaning to their actions, interactions and lives.
A motion capture device allows the performers to activate and change sounds
that are generated by their actions to emphasize the immediacy of movement,
the presence and relations of the dancers in space. Common arid and extemporized
sounds waft here, and bridge the relations of individuals. Once sounds
are separated from bodies or objects, they can drift like souls, or gain
a commanding force and gradually change into some kind of music.
Haruka
Hirayama (Ph.D.) studied composition and computer music with
Profs Cot Lippe and Takayuki Rai at Sonology Department, Kunitach College
of Music in Tokyo and received a B.A. and M.A. She also completed the
research programme of Electroacoustic Composition at NOVARS Research Centre
of the University of Manchester under the supervision of Prof. Ricardo
Climent. She was awarded numerous international prizes and residencies,
and her works have been selected and performed at multiple international
festivals and conferences. Originally from Murakami, Niigata she is based
in Tokyo where she is a lecturer and researcher at several universities.
http://www.harukahirayama.com/
Info
and details on the making:https://www.facebook.com/peopleinthedunes/
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