A dance & digital arts creation

3 cabins. 3 small worlds. 3 borders. 3 dancers, 2 women, 1 man.

The digital device interacts with their movements that modulate sound, video, light.

An immersive device where the public can move freely.

Stories of borders

What separates us? What connects us?

How does the border let the relationship pass?

A history of borders. Between worlds, cultures, self and others, self and self.

Inside and outside.

Cocoon or prison. Binding framework or limit to be exceeded. It locks up or makes the relationship possible.

Leads to conflict or recognition.

Ambivalence of the border. Respect it or reject it.

Crossing a border is never easy, any movement is an exile.

Sound and sensitive cabins

Each cabin has an identity, a visual and sound signature, singular and ambivalent borders.

They are open, making the relationship with the other possible.

The skin cabin has elastic and soft walls. The dancer pushes back the skin as he would push the limits of the unknown. It invites experimentation, at the risk of sometimes getting lost. It is the place for real-time videos.

Its pickup system is composed of 2 cameras.

The plexiglass walls of the plexi cabin form a rigid exterior frame. It blocks movements but it is a stable, reassuring support surface. It is sound, percussive: sensors collect the vibrations of the material. The dancer's movements generate sounds and light.

The dress booth does not have a wall, but a dress attached to its base. The dancer is held by her costume, which always brings her back to the center of her cabin. Both cocoon and prison, it is that of attachment to the territory, to traditions, to the mother tongue. Its pickup system is an accelerometer-type sensor that allows sounds to be associated with the dancer's movements.

The public is immersed in the device. He can move freely around the cabins, create a particular relationship to a cabin or move away to have visibility from the 3 cabins. The 3 cabins form a space for dialogue: Cabines is an invitation to exchange, to (re)know the other.

A participatory journey

The company has developed a modular participatory protocol to be able to adapt Cabins to each new territory. It invites the structures that host the project to meet their neighbours before the performance.

The course includes several possible entrances:

// Meet: collective meetings between the artistic team, the inhabitants and the broadcasting partners.

// Testify: individual meetings to collect the testimonies of the inhabitants on their conception of the border. Some lyrics are integrated into the soundtrack (creation of an additional stage). Others may be broadcast in a sound installation attached to the show.

// Experiment: digital device experimentation workshop.

// Dance: the scene created specifically for the place can be interpreted by the 3 Cabines dancers and/or by amateur ice dancers. In this case, 2 days of upstream rehearsal are necessary.