In the performance Communion - Le Partage des Peaux II, by Isabelle Choinière, presented at the Theatre, the resources for corporal expression through dancing are amplified by the electronics of video and computerized image, via sensors attached to the artist’ body which control the images on the screen, combined with additional video footage.
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Machine resources at the bodies disposal - and no the contrary. More than just a reflection, Isabelle Choiniere offers an aesthetic route to attain this maxim in her piece Communion – Le Partage des Peaux II. Choreographer and classical ballerina, Isabelle discovered in computer and electronic technology the means to quench her creative restlessness. She produces here a spectacle in which dance movements are amplified by video and computerized images. On the screened, digitized images of her body are controlled by her movements trough the use of sensors spread over her legs, arms and torso – to which are added other images produced on the video. This instigating visual alchemy produces a peculiar electronic eroticism. A theatrical configuration with a musical score as well as the primal cadence of the heartbeat permeates throughout. As these different elements interact during the performance an atmosphere arises brimming with spirituality capable of throwing us back to the domains of xamanic rituals and the numerous levels of corporal manifestations- the physical, the virtual and the electronic. An act of exploring the limits of our essence and corporal nature, in which technology is used, not to filter and stifle our senses, but to amplify them. Isabelle, a Canadian, became interested in electronic art in 1992, and using her ballerina and choreography formation as a base, has been exploring the many aesthetic possibilities offered by the unique association of computer video and dance resources. Her work, already incorporated into international mainstream, presents characteristics which qualify her as a creative multimedia investigator, with the capabilities to surprise, instigate and shock.
ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL VIDEOBRASIL, "11º Videobrasil": de 12 de novembro de 1996 a 17 de novembro de 1996, p. 82, São Paulo, SP, 1996.