“Why We Live Together” is an interactive audiovisual dance ‘construction’, a spectacle that transforms the body movement, the sound -electronic and natural instruments-, and the narrations to an audiovisual spectacle. The subject is based on ‘Symbiotic Relations’ of species according to Biology. Biology, proposes that inside the living arrangement each specie can win (benefit), lose (damage), or remain neutral. This proposal acts as a protocol to investigate the relations between arts. Poetry, narration, sound, dance, visuals, and programmable environmens they are experiencing a continuos collaboration in order to develop a polyphonic environment, delivering an innovative spectacle to the audience. The play performed at Cultural Center of Ioannina on November 5th.
PARTICIPANTS
Idea, Artistic Director: Angelos Floros
Music Composition:Stavros Sakellariou
Choreographer: Laura Tsiati
Visual programmable environments: Angelos Floros
Multichannel audio dissemination: Stavros Sakellariou
Texts: Despina Kontaxis
Narration: Constantina Tsigouli
Hairstyles: Myrto Diamanti
Dancers: Laura Tsiati, Gina Vika, Ioanna Kolegiorgou, Anna Lioga, Maria Nefeli Benekou, Giota Vasilakou, Gina Chrysi, Panos Stergioulis, Giorgos Pantelis
Musicians:
Stavros Sakellariou, electronics
Dimitris Karageorgos, aluminium tubes
Katerina Trachana, flute
Yorgos Memos, percussion
Petros Gogakis, violin
Nicos Papageorgiou, cello
Yannos Toskas, bass
Scientific Supervisor: Mara Koliou
Promotion and Communication Manager: Napoleon Papageorgiou
Audio Technician: Thomas Nastos
Lighting Technician: Costas Zukas
Logo design: Fotini Filoxenidou
Video: Vassilis Mentzos
PROGRAM
The wave (plelude)
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Mimicry I
Mimicry II
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Parasitism
Commensalism/Amensalism
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Neutrualism
Mutualism
Antagonism
Cultural Center of the Municipality of Ioannina
5 November 2016, Ioannina
The Wave (Prelude)
The prelude introduces a synchronous synthesis of physical and electronic sounds, the human movement, and a programmable process of visual under the algorithmic rules of the structure of waves.
Mimicry I
Mimicry “in evolutionary biology, is a similarity of one organism, usually an animal, to another that has evolved because the resemblance is selectively favoured by the behaviour of a shared signal receiver that can respond to both”. For the performance the first part of Mimicry meets the sound on an archetypal state. The percussion instruments were the first acousmatic instrument where the humans started to experimented with rythm and expression.
Mimicry II
On the second part of Mimicry, the species are investigating the world as an extention of their body actions’. The delayed silhouette (projected image) develops an internal communication model, over time. The flute as another ancient musical instrument triggers a symbiotic environment of the visual with the physical expressions.
Parasitism
Parasites and Host, two lives and two deaths. The parasite benefits damaging the host and they die when the host die. The body and its beauty are transformed to a nutrition, for an unexpected symbiotic specie.
The first part of Parasitism illustrates the lives of both species, the last moments of the host and the first moments of the parasites.
The second part of “Parasitism” illustrates the death scence.
Commensalism Amensalism
The Commensalism describes the relationship between two species where the one remains neutral damaging the other. In contradiction the Amensalism describes the relation where the one specie while it remains neutral it benefits the other.
Mutualism
The scene describes the mutual benefits between two musicians. The musicians as two different species, the physical and the digital, exist in a relationship in which each individual benefits from the activity of the other, providing to the audience a polyphonic but concrete acoustic environment.
Neutralism
At the end the scene of Neutralism is closing the play. The drummer with the percussion instruments discharges the intense atmosphere, fading out the volume of the audiovisual information. Biology does not accept that the Neutralism can exist in Symbiotic relations.
Antagonism
Using audio and visual programmable environments, the image sequence of a dancing scene and the melody of a trio string, are being transform to an intense spectacle, developing an antagonistic atmosphere to the audience.