kin_ vs BodyWays

›kin_‹ is a performative dance piece by Charlotte Triebus exploring human corporeality with digital technology. One to three avatars move in augmented space and can be approached and experienced via your own mobile device. You are invited to join reality entanglements and its distortions, to sense alien intimacy and the fine line between observation and surveillance. Between agency, connection and interaction, the avatar dancers react to proximity and distance, movement and wind impulses. Together with its follow-up ›proxy‹ it brings Performance Art right to your finger tips. For the interactive, binaural soundtrack and reactive costumes, Charlotte Triebus has been collaborating with composer Brigitta Muntendorf as well as digital make-up artist Inès Alpha. ›kin_‹ has been developed and scientifically supported by MIREVI Lab (University of Applied Science Düsseldorf). ›kin_‹ has premiered in August 2021 and has travelled the world since. Whether at your home, in open space, at Slamdance Festival in Saltlake City, at CCCB Barcelona or at NRW Forum in Düsseldorf – ›kin_‹ has been part of plenty of festivals, conferences and exhibitions with several international awards won, proving that the performance is experienced literally anywhere on Earth. The exact exhibition venues can be found in the event calendar on the serie’s website www.kin.dance, which is also accessible via the app.

Have you ever tried talking with body movements? Instead of using words, use your body movements to ask questions, give your opinion, and wait for the other person to respond. Try to understand what the other is saying with her/his body, without using words. Explore this new universe and discover your body. Discover your expression. Discover how you can say amazing things using your body in a new way like you've never done before. Something totally new for you to try: BodyWay Nota-Anna, an App of motion capture with visualization and sound options for social networks. How it was born? A dancer, Analivia Cordeiro, dreamed that one day everyone would communicate and talk through movements, when technology instruments were still rudimentary, in 1983. Time passed, a lot of research was done by her and Nilton Lobo, responsible for the tech solutions. Together, they created Nota-Anna, trying to turn this dream into reality. Finally, 39 years later, their dream comes true: BodyWay Nota-Anna, a way for people to talk to each other using the movements of their bodies, without words. BodyWay Nota-Anna creates a graphic visualization of your body movement video. You can choose an image background, add a soundtrack. If you want, put a comment and send it to a friend, a relative, a partner, to anyone who you want. And wait for this person to answer. Thus, in a back-and-forth, you create a movement dialogue. BodyWay Nota-Anna is easy to use, fun, applicable to anyone anywhere in the world. A new way to communicate, create and have fun.