2013 · Dance – stage work
Comfort Zone
Benjamin Levy (LEVYdance), with Garance Marneur
An interactive installation in which projected particle-animation avatars form around visitors' bodies and prompt strangers to mirror, touch and dance with one another. Across eight scenes and about ten minutes, on more than 1,200 square feet of interactive walls, it explores comfort, boundaries and collaboration in shared space.
- Premiere
- 2014-10-23
- Venue
- Exploratorium (interactive installation), Pier 15
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Performances
- Ran about a year at the Exploratorium from October 23, 2014 (J Weekly in October 2014 said 'through November 3'); shown at Audi City Codes, Beijing, December 2014. An Exploratorium post titled 'Play to the Edge of Your Comfort Zone' dates from about September 2013 and may be an earlier prototype or event.
- Credits
- Concept: Ben Levy / LEVYdance, Garance Marneur (visual designer). Generative art/software: Cory Barr, Anticlockwise Arts. Support and physical engineering: Exploratorium. Archived sequences feature the LEVYdance ensemble. Music: Ben Juodvalkis (per folder; not credited on the public pages found).
Press
“The exhibit tests your level of comfort and asks you to touch a partner.”
Elsewhere
- Talking with A dancer with Exploratorium acumen — J. The Jewish News of Northern California, 2014-10-10
- Comfort Zone — Anticlockwise Arts, 2014-10-23
- Comfort Zone — Cory Barr - selected works, 2014
- Programs and Exhibits - Summer and Fall 2014 — Exploratorium press office, 2014
Research status: researched – partial. Details on this piece are still being confirmed — corrections are welcome.
More with LEVYdance
- SOAR 2014
- LEVYdance early collaborations 2010