QUINCUNX is a work for five dancers exploring the relationship between "live" and digital performers in a hybrid scenographic space. The first work of its kind in Puerto Rico, it introduced dancers to tech-art choreography, where the synthesis of choreography and digital content is indivisible in shaping the choreographic identity of the work.
Quincunx is a multivalent term. It names the five-point pattern of the dice and many other spatial formations, from architecture to flags, and it is also a mathematical term. For this work I focused on a more obscure definition: the "anti-aliasing" method in digital production, where a gap in the code is corrected by adding external data not present in the original image. It is a somewhat ironic process, in which the "not real" defines the final form and therefore our perception of the "real". This became the working metaphor for five scenes exploring the perception of the real. Dancers performed duets with their electronic aliases. They inhabited spaces that appeared three-dimensional behind the stage wall. Live bodies dissolved as if into data that kept shaping and reshaping the space.
The work gave me the opportunity to collaborate again with Athens-based sound designer Lambros Pigounis.
Concept, choreography and digital art: Ana Sánchez-Colberg
Digital art: Ana Sánchez-Colberg for Vision.AI.R-E
Sound composition: Lambros Pigounis
Performers: Albertx Rivera, Aura Gómez, Natalia Fajardo, Adriana Morales, Maru Toro
Lighting design: Luis F. Rivera
Digital art: Ana Sánchez-Colberg for Vision.AI.R-E
Sound composition: Lambros Pigounis
Performers: Albertx Rivera, Aura Gómez, Natalia Fajardo, Adriana Morales, Maru Toro
Lighting design: Luis F. Rivera
Part of the evening Andanza Inédita, Sala Experimental Carlos Marichal, Fine Arts Center Luis A. Ferré, 5–7 May 2023.
