Tactile Sensations
Augmented tactility2011 - Director : Matos, Jean-Marc
Choreographer(s) : Matos, Jean-Marc (France) Holst, Anne (Denmark)
Present in collection(s): Spectacles de danse contemporaine et arts numériques
Video producer : K. Danse
Tactile Sensations
Augmented tactility2011 - Director : Matos, Jean-Marc
Choreographer(s) : Matos, Jean-Marc (France) Holst, Anne (Denmark)
Present in collection(s): Spectacles de danse contemporaine et arts numériques
Video producer : K. Danse
Tactile Sensations, the performance
An interactive dance performance for two dancers, with augmented tactility.
Project in collaboration with duo Scenocosme (Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt).
Tactile Sensations is a dance performance that investigates the meaning and intimacy of touch and its social construction: the connection to memory and human attachment, emotion, desire, rejection.
How and why do people touch each other? How is touch initiated between people? What is the meaning of touch?
This performance stages the sensitive relationship between a man and a woman.
The overall theme is enhanced by the interactive experience of producing and altering the sound and lights via the digital treatment of data coming from the contact between two bodies.
Matos, Jean-Marc
Dancer, choreographer and artistic director. Trained at the Cunningham Studio in New-York, he has performed with David Gordon (Judson Church). He is interested in the impact of digital technology on society, in order to develop a meaningful relationship between dance and new media. He has choreographed more than 45 pieces which have been presented extensively in France (Avignon Festival, the Pompidou Center, etc.) and in many countries (Europe, Central and South America, USA, Canada, North Africa, India, Pakistan). He is involved in several cross-cultural and multidisciplinary projects, including the EU supported projects Metabody and Wholodance, for which he is one of the co-organizing partners.
Holst, Anne
Dancer, choreographer and artistic director. BA (1st) Dance in Society, MA Dance Studies (Choreography), University of Surrey, UK. Trained in ballet, contemporary dance, physical theater, and choreography. Her choreographic research centers on the development of movement abstracted from existing structures in various fields of human experience. She has choreographed more than 30 pieces which have been shown in France and in Central America, Morocco, England, Venezuela and Mexico.
Scenocosme
Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt are two artists who work together as a duo under the name Scenocosme.
They develop the concept of interactivity in their artworks by using multiple kind of expression : art, technology, sounds and architecture.
They mix art and digital technology in order to find substances of dreams, poetries, sensitivities and delicacies. They also explore invisible relationships with our environment: they can feel energetic variations of living beings. They design interactive artworks, and choreographic collective performances, in wich spectators share extraordinary sensory experiences.
Interactive and digital art, installation, design, music, architecture... are combined in the projects realised by Scenocosme.
Matos, Jean-Marc
Jean-Marc Matos; video editor
K. Danse
Contemporary dance Company involved in many production, mediation and research projects integrating dance and digital arts.
The choreographic approach of the K. Danse Company develops a contemporary movement language by the dialectic confrontation between the physical body (lived, experienced) and the visual body (seen, virtual). www.k-danse.net/en
Since 1983, K. Danse has been present in major festivals and cultural events in France and abroad: Festivals of Aix en Provence, Avignon In, la Rochelle, Châteauvallon, Métafort d’Aubervilliers, American Center of Paris, Georges Pompidou Center, Grande Halle de la Villette, Maison des Arts de Créteil, Maison de la Danse de Lyon, Centre National Art et Technologie de Reims, Centre National de la Danse, ISEA 2000 à Paris, Monaco Dance Forum, Espace Odyssud de Blagnac, Cité de l’Espace de Toulouse, Electrochoc Festival, Digital Art Center Le Cube of Issy Les Moulineaux, Arts Center of Enghien les Bains, the Ardenome Gallery in Avignon, the CENTQUATRE in Paris, Le Louvre Pyramid in Paris (with the BodyFail project, laureate of the 2017 Open Art Pulsar Prize), CURIOSITas Festival, Paris-Saclay (2019)…
The company has toured in Central America, Senegal, India, Vietnam, Morocco, Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Pakistan, Belgium, Hungary, Canada and USA and has presented performances at the Soros Center of Budapest, Video Fest and Podewill Centrum, Berlin, Hamburg International Festival, Foundation Polar in Caracas, Festival Medi@rte in Monterrey, Festival VAD Girona and IDN Barcelona (Catalonia), The international Video Art Festival of Casablanca (Morocco), The National Theatre of Guatemala, NIAS of Bangalore (India), Festival Llunes d’esBaluard of Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands), ScenoFest Festival Quadrennial of Prague (Czech Republic), International Forum of Dance and Theater of Huesca, Spain (Price for the most innovative performance, 2012, with the Tactile Sensations project), Casa Paganini (Genoa, Italy), Romaeuropa Festival (Rome), La Sorbonne Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates, 2018), International Festival of Video Art (Casablanca, Morocco, 2019)…
Recipient of a grant “projet Phare 2017” from la Diagonale Paris Saclay for the RCO project (with scientist and artist Sarah Fdili Alaoui), recipient of the Fellowship Residency program from the Bogliasco Foundation 2017 (Genoa Italy, New-York).
Escales Tactiles, l'équipe
Artistic direction / Conception : Matos Jean-Marc & Holst Anne
Artistic direction assistance / Conception : Lasserrre Gregory & Met den Ancxt Anaïs
Choreography : Matos Jean-Marc & Holst Anne
Interpretation : Miyagi Aude & Lecuziat Julien
Stage direction : Matos Jean-Marc & Holst Anne
Set design : Matos Jean-Marc & Holst Anne & Lasserrre Gregory & Met den Ancxt Anaïs
Original music : Lasserrre Gregory & Met den Ancxt Anaïs
Live music : Lasserrre Gregory & Met den Ancxt Anaïs
Lights : Lasserrre Gregory & Met den Ancxt Anaïs
Costumes : Miyagi Aude
Sound : Lasserrre Gregory & Met den Ancxt Anaïs
Production / Coproduction of the video work : K. Danse & Scenocosme
Duration : 50 mn
dedicated site, full documentation, prize
“Most innovative production” / XXVI International Theatre and Dance Fair of Huesca, Spain – 2012
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