Dance Traces

Lesia Trubat is an artist that connected dance with visual arte, putting an electronic system in the dancer's shoes to see the movements that the dancer was doing in a screen.

This project is called E-Traces (Electronic Traces) and I found it very interesting because we can see another view of the dance that we never known. Dance is suppose to have "perfect movements", drawing perfect figures on the floor or the air with your legs and arms. But it is a hard work to achieve these perfect movements. With this project, we can see how we really produce the movement and, like her creator says, is useful to clean de dancers movement and the technique.

There, you can see a video of this project:

https://vimeo.com/108109673

Besides, Lesia Trubat have done the same project but using different materials to do dancers draw their dance. I've found this project more interesting, because we can see the movements in a better way, maybe because the technological chip are not qualified yet. 

Here we can see a litlle bit more the movements of ballet dance, but I think that the dancer in the video it's not the better to show the draws of the dance steps. 

For examle we can see in this video (https://vimeo.com/69658817) that the dancer is doing a "Rond de Jambe", a movement that work like a compass. There is a symmetric axis at the base leg, line up with the pelvis and the vertical line of the body. The other leg go down a semicircle by the floor with the top of the fingers. We can't see the perfect draw because of the material or the dancer, but it is suppose to be like that:

Another dance step that we can see at the first video is a "Piqué", that appear draw like that:

But the expected draw of it is the next one:

So, I think that these project could be so useful for dancer to achieve the perfect geometric draws with their movement.