Dance With Me
A downright playful space where the spectator becomes the DJ, choreographing virtual dancers. An invitation to direct the orchestra, if only for one song.
It should prove to be an intriguing experience. Plug your MP3 player into a wall on which YouTube videos of young girls dancing are projected. You make them boogie to the rhythms of your choosing. You are in control!
The multimedia artist Grégory Chatonsky has selected 157 sequences of teenage girls who have filmed themselves dancing in their bedrooms, all performing the same choreography. The faces, costumes and décors change, but the movements are always the same. The spectator pulls the strings of these digital puppets. Whether the music is lascivious or has a staccato rhythm, they dance to the prescribed beat in a piece that gleefully questions our relationship to new technologies and our desire to meddle in cyberspace.
Dance with Me is a downright playful space where the spectator becomes the DJ, choreographing virtual dancers. An invitation to direct the orchestra, if only for one song.
CONCEPT GRÉGORY CHATONSKY
SOFTWARE VADIM BERNARD
PHOTO GRÉGORY CHATONSKY
CO-PRESENTED BY PLACE DES ARTS
WRITTEN BY DIANE JEAN
TRANSLATED BY NEIL KROETSCH
PREMIERED AT OBORO, MONTREAL, 2007
GRÉGORY CHATONSKY (MONTRÉAL)
INCIDENT.NET
Cyberartist
Gregory Chatonsky has followed an eclectic path. Initially a painter, he is interested not only in art works but in discussions about art. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and multimedia art at the École des Beaux-arts in Paris. That combination led him to create digital art projects that question our connections to new technologies.
