Dance Bio-robotic fusion of technology and art
The company Yorker Mei-Be Whatever presents for the first time in Spain, his dance piece in bio-robotics Ambigú Chamber of Valladolid.
The contemporary dance company MEI-BE Whatever your dance piece “Wear and Tear.” On Friday February 19 at 20:30 pm in Room Ambigú Valladolid robot can see only interpreted by the director, choreographer and dancer Mei-Yi Ng.
This Malaysian artist who lives in eleven years in New York, blends contemporary dance with multimedia resources. In their search for the relationship between body and technology, his most recent works investigate the simultaneity of the performing arts with its own reproduction in- situ and in real time.
“Wear & Tear” presents the human body as a robot fresh from the factory. It portrays the dualism between biology and technology in 18 minutes Part. The dancer placed in the joints of its members, surveillance cameras that bring their movement to the viewer’s perspective. During the piece, the robot gradually breaks til you drop, evoking images that reveal the impossibility of perfection. Since its inception, this bio-machine was destined to die.
