Aliens

Aliens is a research project concerned with the effect of presence revealed by movement and its transposition within different bodies, both biological and synthetic. Exploring notions of representation and performativity using powerful tools for capturing and categorizing movement, the project seeks to develop a choreographic language with the capacity to navigate between different sets of gestural norms, or to depart radically from them.

The project is being carried out in part in the context of a residency at Montreal’s École de Technologie Supérieure, in collaboration with the computer engineering research groups of David Labbé and Sheldon Andrews.

Started in spring 2024, the research project will run until December 2024.

Credits

Artists and choreographers
Simon Laroche
Liliane Moussa

Associate researchers
David Labbé
Sheldon Andrews

Support
École de Technologie Supérieure
Projet EVA