schème and schème II -
choreographic installations

schème: (Gk Skhema, figure) Overall structure of a process.
PSYCHOL. Underlying mental structure. Sensorimotor cognitive scheme. PHILOS. A transcendental scheme: in Kantian philosophy, an intermediary representation between the concept and the perception data."
(Larousse Dictionary, 2001)

The choreographic installations schème and schème II present five body-language and media-based sequences who put forward five distinct visions of time and space. The viewer moves into a stark, open space, the site of the performance, where the encounter and interaction between the body and the new media forms an intelligent space. The fruit of a rigorous process, schème sets the body into real and virtual situations, projecting it into multidimensional spaces.

schème is an ongoing research and development process, where the principal subject of experimentation is the interactive manipulation of video, live images, sound and 3 D environments, by dance/performance. The two performers control and generate this environment, and their movement is translated via sensors into MIDI data. These sensors are mounted on their arms, legs and on the head. Two prototypes of a wireless sensor box, three video cameras, three computers two moving projectors and one remote controlled shutter system are forming with the performance an expressive system.
A matrix MAX software developed in MAX/MSP, enables multiple control parameter mapping and is managing the data flow.