Hardly virtual is a digital environment where users can approach choreographic parameters and manipulate
them as they wish. In each application there are different choreographic materials; they are always
based on the 128 defined and designed movements which users can seen at any time needed. The game is
activated by the choreographic score of hardly
the same: a dance guide to mess up
body&mind and invites
the virtual visitor to experiment not only synthetically, but also verbally and design wise with the
chosen material.
First of all, the website is to be considered as a place of emergence of issues of choreography and
dance practice. Navigating within it, one can begin to discover aspects of choreographic design and
dance function while problematizing with organization, composition, score-making, kinetic possibilities,
visualization. abstract forms, memory ...
The creative game with movements is explored through the mental division of the human body into areas and
thus provides the possibility for a kind of anatomical analysis. The 8 areas are head, shoulders, ribs,
elbows, pelvis, wrists / hands, knees, ankles and are represented with distinct coloring of the figures
depending on the reference area of each movement.
Finally, we aim at transforming and digitizing a pre-existing set of movements through different forms
and versions attempting a ‘sharing’ of these objects which would be excluded from sth final piece, all
that we do not show on stage.
This is the most interactive part of the website: the user is asked to use their physical intelligence
and kinetic imagination in order to invent their own movements which satisfy the kinetic parameters and
the name of each original movement. In order to do so, they can use the title list of the invented names
of the 128 moves.
The names (eg "rocket") can be interpreted without any restrictions, however, we call on the interested
guests to be consistent in the kinetic parameters: the reference area of the movement, its beginning,
its end and its spatial-anthropometric reference depending on whether it is a "small" one or a "medium".
Pressing "record" activates the camera of each the device and allows users to record their moves and
thus participate in the creation of a collective "library" of movements made based on the same data.
Finally, selecting "view" displays, if any, the list of movements that have been filmed by previous
visitors for each movement so as to to highlight the variety of interpretations, the different
mobilizations of the bodies which translate verbal and written information.
