Una Noche con Ramona in the Sotto a Chi Danza Festival
On the 11th of March, the performance Una Noche con Ramona was presented at the international dance festival Soto a Chi Danza, organised by the association AMAT, from the region of Le Marche in Italy. The performance took place at the Rotonda a Mare in the seaside town of Senigallia, in what used to be a resort. This particular space with a sea view and qualities similar to those of a Greek forum hosted the Dream performing arts company, for the presentation of the site-specific piece Una Noche con Ramona. Una Noche con Ramona is an interactive performance. Ramona is a “Love Influencer”, a “heroine of love”, a “collective body” that exists on the net, feeds through networks, feeds on desires and fantasies, travelling in our collective dreams. Through a ritual, she is embodied in those who wish to experience it.The audience has the role to imagine and, if they wish, to interact and co-create Ramona. This performance arises from real experiences. Ramonahas her Instagram page (IG: ramona_abate) and interacts with the people who write to them. The play is inspired by these relationships filtered through the technological medium. Director and performer: Raffaella MenchettiPerformer and multimedia creator: Joaquín DíazPlaywright: Sara SerranoPerformer and creator: Francesca VantuPerformer: Sofia GallianoOnline performer: Elissa This project has been funded and supported by: Sneo.es, Hamlet.Love and BODYinTRANSIT ERC project
Una Noche con Ramona and Joakinator in the Feel My Body Festival
The 3rd of March was the presentation of the Performance Una Noche con Ramona and Joakinator: A Technological Embodyment of Onyric World at the Feel My Body festival, held at Link, Bologna, Italy. Una Noche con Ramona is an interactive performance. Ramona is a “Love Influencer”, a “heroine of love”, a “collective body” that exists on the net, feeds through networks, feeds on desires and fantasies, travelling in our collective dreams. Through a ritual, she is embodied in those who wish to experience it.The audience has the role to imagine and, if they wish, to interact and co-create Ramona. This performance arises from real experiences. Ramonahas her Instagram page (IG: ramona_abate) and interacts with the people who write to them. The play is inspired by these relationships filtered through the technological medium. Director and performer: Raffaella MenchettiPerformer and multimedia creator: Joaquín DíazPlaywright: Sara SerranoPerformer and creator: Francesca VantuPerformer: Sofia GallianoOnline performer: Elissa Joakinator: Technological Embodiment of Onirical Worlds The Joakinator is a performative and technological device that allows us to introduce concepts, ideas and dreams into the body of the performer and explore them through their movements. Through this corporeal device, the integration of the oneiric world will be explored in the piece “Joakinator: Oniric Body”, turning it into a crossover point between consciousness and dreaming. The interactive device uses muscle sensors, pressure sensors and accelerometers that feed an A.I. system which translates the movements of the performer into a control/decontrol over the sound material. This performance explores different sound materials,for this occasion, the audios are texts read from the performer’s dream diaries and psychoanalysis sessions. This archive has been collected over a period of 4 years. The Joakinator is an electro-shamanic device which helps to materialize inner worlds into the movements of the artist’s body. The performer becomes a shamanic cyborg that translates these inner worlds with his movements, serving as a hatch for the audience to get a glimpse of these worlds. Original idea:Joaquín R. Díaz, Mexico (Interactive design, Roboticsand Performance)Performance (still work in process):Joaquín R. Díaz & Franccesca VantùRaffaella Menchetti, Italy (Dramaturgist, Performer,actress and visual artist)Technological Research:Marta Timon, Spain (Computer Scientist, andbiometric signal acquisition)Pedro López, Spain (Reactive Shaders andElectronic Engineering) These projects have been funded and supported by: Sneo.es, Hamlet.Love and BODYinTRANSIT ERC project