Co-produced by Issue Project Room, HERE and Roulette, Lucid Possession will make its New York premiere April 25– 27 at 8pm at Roulette.
Tickets: $20 / $15 members, students, seniors
http://roulette.org/events/toni-dove-lucid-possession/
Considered one of the pioneers of interactive cinema, New York-based artist Toni Dove creates hybrid performance, installation and screen-based art that fuses film, game or instrument based interaction, and experimental theater. In her work, performers interact with an unfolding narrative, using interface technologies such as motion sensing, iPad and laser harp to inhabit and animate on-screen avatars.
A culmination of these multimedia explorations, Lucid Possession combines musicians, VJ mashing, and stage-controlled robotic projection screens to present a contemporary ghost story – a poetic musing on managing the mass of information “noise.” Dove and her co-performers—mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn and musician Todd Reynolds—draw the audience into a world in which video characters come to life, where the wave of a hand moves a video body and video characters lip synch to a live singer. Using a groundbreaking motion-sensing system created by Dove and R. Luke DuBois, the onstage performers collectively perform a movie, which then spills off the dynamic, dimensional screens and onto the stage. With staging co-directed by Ridge Theater’s Bob McGrath and songs by Elliot Sharp, the result is a complex three-dimensional, automated video pop-up book where characters are brought to life through motion, voice, and robotics.