I put together a crew of 3 helpers to transpose the visual/spatial score onto the bridge and to operate cameras and other technical aspects of shooting the performance on video. Each crew member was given their score sheets and responsible for scoring different sections of the bridge. Equipped with a whole lot of sidewalk chalk we scored the bridge in 3.5 hours.
The video bears witness to the transposition of the score. Situating the score in a public and pedestrian through-way was chosen for its spatial constraints, the unpredictability associated with public spaces, and how we would encounter the public in the filming process.
The initial embodied act of drawing or scoring the data allowed for an artistic approach to interpreting and representing the data. The photos in this video highlights the elements of Space, Shape and Duration used in scoring the data. These elements not only relate to some of the essential ingredients involved in generating movement vocabularies and choreographies, but also link directly to features observed in the data. The very process and the experience of dancing the data is meant to provoke further insights into the felt experience of space and how we make sense of, think about and act in our world.
