The Lobster

 

- Motion capture live performance

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The Lobster is a dance between human and machine. A choreographic exploration, in collaboration with a dancer, that examines physical-digital relationships and what happens between a human body and technology once they are interfaced.

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The movements of the dancer, Tasha Hess-Neustadt, are recoded via motion capture data and transferred to a non-human body (in this case: the Lobster) with a different anatomy. The dancer’s human movements thereby trigger different movements in the Lobster’s limbs.

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The dancer adapts her movements to what they trigger in her counterpart. A dialogue emerges between the two, the lobster and the dancer. The dancer becomes more like a lobster and the lobster more like a human.

An exchange of mutual influence develops between them, triggering a new form of movement that would not have arisen in either of them without the other.

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concept, 3D-design, motion capturing, rigging, video-editing  -  Lisa Kaschubat

dancing  -  Tasha Hess-Neustadt