
STRINGS is an interactive performance - available as an in-person, remote or hybrid experience. The dancer is wearing networked haptic devices that react to the collective actions of the audience through a web interface.
It explores how digital technology can enable collaboration and help us dance together, hold each other from a distance and find a new sense of togetherness.
The dancer is found in her living room after several weeks of self-isolation, losing connection with the outside world, fighting against anxiety and apathy, and contemplating the self. She will rely on the audience interaction to help her live through movement again and reconnect with others.
Using this interactive system, the audience is able to watch the performance while collectively deciding how the dancer should move. Each instruction acts as invisible strings to (re)animate a living and dancing body.
STRINGS
Interactive performance with networked haptics
Role: Direction, Performance, Creative Technology, Electronics
2020










Direction, performance, creative coding, electronics: Clemence Debaig
Dancer: Clemence Debaig, Chloe Bellou
Web development: Ed Boucher
Music: Christina Karpodini
Creative input and dance partners: Chloe Bellou, Kristia Morabito, Marcello Licitra
STRINGS has originally been presented as part of 19 Acts of COVID-19 Bravery, a selection of digital performances prompted by the coronavirus outbreak, curated by Brendan Drake and Kate Ladenheim.