TRIAD NetDance script Marikki Hakola 13.5.98
Total duration of the TRIAD NetDance netcasting is 60 minutes. The duration of the TRIAD performance is 48 minutes. The images of Dancers in New York and Tokyo will be sent to KIASMA museum by using 3 X ISDN connections. Images are combined with the virtual set video streams by using real time chroma key and luminance key video effects. The editing of the final combination of the moving image is made in the KIASMA-theatre in front of the live audinence. The result - TRIAD NetDance - will be distributed to the international audience via Internet.
Introduction (duration 10 min.)
- an introduction of the team and the work
TRIAD theme animation (duration 1 min.)
- theme computer animation
First part: "Memory Tracks" (duration 25 min.)
"Memory Tracks" is a first part of the telepresence performance TRIAD NetDance. It contains two simultaneously performed solo choreographies by Akeno and Molissa Fenley. AkenoÇs solo is called "Far from the Lotus" and Molissa FenleyÇs solo is called "On the Other Ocean". Combined with electronic moving image settings designed by Marikki Hakola these solos form together the first part of the TRIAD live netcast performance. In "Memory Tracks" two different traditions of choreographical expression and paths body language meet at the virtual stage of the Internet. Marikki HakolaÇs visual approach guides dancers from the urban stratum to the organic surfaces of the nature.
1. scene - DISTANT WALLS (5 min.)
- abstract images of the urban skyscraper walls in New York and Tokyo
2. scene - RHYTHM (7 min.)
- dynamic, rythmical details of the architecture in Soho
3. scene - EROSION (6 min.)
- erosion, aging, details of the sliding doors of the tea room in Yoshino.
4. scene - ORGANIC SURFACES (6 min.)
- Flows of the streams and reflections of the light on a surface of a pond in Kyoto Gardens.
Second part: "Dream" (duration 5 min.)
"Dream" is a second part of the telepresence performance TRIAD NetDance. It is a live music performance, where the pulse of the city lights melt into the heart of the musical experience created by Otna Eahket band.
5. scene - OTNA EAHKET (5 min)
- nightlight images combined with the live image of the Otna Eahket band playing at the KIASMA theater.
Third part: "Encounters" (duration 13 min.)
"Encounters" is a third part of the telepresence performance TRIAD NetDance. Akeno and Molissa Fenley have created together an interactive choreography called "Current". Based on 14 different one minute concepts dancers perform the same piece by perceiving each others on the virtual stage of TRIAD at Internet. Slowly changing, gigantic black & white images of the female body grow up from the darkness, and form a virtual interface of the encounters of the two dancers.
6. scene - BODIES (14 min.) Akeno-themes
- Black & white, slowly changing details of the body and skin.
Molissa-themes
- Black & white, slowly changing details of the body and skin.
TRIAD theme animation and credits (duration 3 minutes.)
- computer animation followed by the credit information of the performance.
Salute (duration 2 minutes)
- the team salutes audience
