2017–2018 · Dance – stage work
MESH
Daiane Lopes da Silva (Kinetech Arts; digital art by Weidong Yang) · KINITECH
A multimedia dance-theater work by Kinetech Arts that combines choreography with interactive technology, following fragmented stories of people facing uncertainty and testing their resilience. Ben composed the original score.
- Premiere
- 2017-09
- Venue
- CounterPulse (Combustible Residency)
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Performances
- MESH – revisited: Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, October 19–21, 2018 (Ben updated the QLab/audio files in Sept–Oct 2018).
- Credits
- Choreography: Daiane Lopes da Silva; Dancers: Hien Huynh, Alex Law, Juliet Paramor, Hannah Wasielewski, Daiane Lopes da Silva; Original music: Ben Juodvalkis; Digital art & visual design: Weidong Yang; Graphic design: Raymond Larrett; Lighting design: Harry Rubeck. Supported by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and CounterPulse's Combustible Residency.
Press
“An ever-present sonic landscape shifted between harmonic voices woven into nostalgic melodies and a sort of radio on the fritz white noise”
“The whole effect is ridiculously beautiful and more than a bit terrifying.”
Elsewhere
- Allmeshedup: Kinetech Art's MESH — Piero Scaruffi's magazine (scaruffi.com), 2017
- CounterPulse's 'Combustible Residency' Toys with Technology — KQED Arts, 2017-09-13
- A Malfunctioning Body: An Explication of Kinetech Art's MESH — CounterPulse blog, 2017-07-12
- MESH Counterpulse 60sec — Vimeo (Kinetech Arts)
- MESH — Kinetech Arts, 2017
- Performances — Kinetech Arts
- Fall 2017 Season Announcement — CounterPulse, 2017
More with KINITECH
- State Space 2015