Wear + Tear

Wear + Tear investigates the body as machine. The sound of each joint and flex point is emphasized. Repetitive motion is built up and broken down. The dancer is outfitted with multiple wireless video cameras. Each one broadcasts intimate details of the choreography in real time.

CREDITS:
Conceived and Realized: Mei Yin Ng and Eric Koziol
Choreographer & dancer: Mei-Yin Ng
Video Design and Integration: Eric Koziol
Sound Design: Eric Koziol
Addition music excerpt from: Los Sampler “Mambo Brillante”, P16.D4 “Distruct”, Robert Keefe “On the Death of Johannes Kepler”

PERFORMANCE ARCHIVE:
2004 SESC Pompeia, IFFC, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2004 RAW Material, Dance Space Center, NYC, USA
2005 Leap 05 Festival, Liverpool, UK
2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival, Boston, USA
2005 IFFC, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Bassano State Opera Festival, Bassano, Italy
2005 Dance Camera West Festival at Hammer Museum, LA
2005 Enzime Festival, Rome, Italy
2006 Festiva de la Cite, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007 Festival Ammutinamenti Ravenna, Italy
2007 Bologna Danza Urbana Festival, San Lazzaro, Italy
2007 Civitanova Marche Intl. Dance Festival, Italy
2007 Opera Estate Festival Veneto, Provincia di Treviso, Italy
2008 Studio 303. Montreal Canada
2010 Sala Ambigu, Valladolid, Spain

REVIEW:

“Visually stunning and thought-provoking”
THE BOSTON PHOENIX, Marcia B. Siegel
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“The performance showed how much Ng endeavored to elaborate her investigation of wearable cameras…”
[PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art]
PERFORMANCE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Johannes Birringer,
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“…a wild, and extremely provocative work…”
GIORNALE DI VICENZA, Nicoletta Martelletto
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“… a cybernetic myth…”
IL GAZZETTINO, Pamela De Lucia
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