Shifting Ground

Dancevideo installation

Shifting Ground is an interactive dancevideo installation which orchestrates gesture, cultural and geographic imagery. Dancers of separate geographic countries participate and collaborate their culturally inhabited dance and movement knowledge. We translate the essence of the movement and find objects, landscape and sound to be filmed. These elements are later choreoedited to offer an alternative of dance as being a purely physical phenomenon, to dance as being a more layered rhythmic interplay corresponding the elements of physicality, environment, and culture.

Choreography, video and installation by Gretchen Schiller. Supported by Media 100 / Banff Centre for the Arts / A Corps Métis / Mo Vi Da / Canada Council / New Media Lab.

Choreography:
Gretchen Schiller & performers

Performers:
Qing Fang (Beijing China)
Kossua Ghiamphy (Ivory Coast & France)
Mia Keinänen (Finland)
Tonya Lockyer (Canada & USA)

Video:
Gretchen Schiller

Installation:
Gretchen Schiller, Olivier Klein, Scott Wilson & Shaun Roth

Costumes:
Anne Claire Boulard & Janie Mc Cord

Supported by:
Media 100 / Banff Centre for the Arts / A Corps Métis / Mo Vi Da / Canada Council / New Media Lab