MOON

  • Ester Vilaplana
MOON is a dance projection performance about the lunar cycle. The project is focused on exploring the connection between the visuals and the dancer in order to create a final piece where projections enhance the movements of the performer.
From the beginning, my interest in doing this project was to work with the relationship between graphics and the body movement. As a dancer and a visual artist myself, I felt really attracted to experiment in that field. I wanted to explore the way we can use projections with the main purpose of generate an interaction among the dancers. I believe that designing a multimedia scenography is also about finding the balance between both elements. Dance by itself is so expressive that the performance does not need to be graphically overload. In my opinion, it works better when there is an equilibrated connection between them.
The topic of the performance is based on the phases of the moon. When it represents the new moon, the dancer is on the floor and her movements are slower. The graphics are simple, darker and they are taking place around her. On the contrary, when it gets to the full moon stage the visuals are happening mostly on the centre of where she is, creating more complex shapes, brighter and faster.

The final output of this project is a proposal for a bigger show and it presents a general overview of what it would look like.