Right now – Ready creates

*Right now – Ready creates* is an immersive performance experience in which biometric data from two dancers is used to activate lighting, sound, and projection in the space. The dancers create an immersive experience in collaboration with the audience in attendance through a highly physical movement practice that blends contemporary dance and aerial apparatus work. The effort and physicality of the dancers, often invisible or disguised to the audience’s eye, are exposed and filtered through Bluetooth technology to communicate directly with the production equipment in the space.

Throughout the 45-minute experience, the two dancers’ heart rates are monitored and each dancer’s heart rate ranges trigger different production elements in the space. This close relationship with technology allows the space to come to life, alongside the performers. As the dancers experience fatigue, failure, disorientation, and rest, their movements emerge in real-time, allowing dance to impact the technical elements granting the design greater weight and visibility.

*Right now – Ready* createsy emerged out of two creative residencies at the B2 Center for Media, Art, and Performance, and ongoing movement research on effort, endurance, failure, nonarrival, and intersections of the body with technology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Anna Pillot and Caroline Butcher each hold an M.F.A. in dance, and Brad Gallagher holds his Ph.D. in Intermedia Art, Writing, and Performance, all from the University of Colorado Boulder.