Dance/science

In London today, we accompanied our Chinese students to the Natural History Museum (one hour), the Science Museum (one hour) and Westfield Shopping Centre (two-and-a-half hours).

During a break at the Science Museum my co-teacher and I came across 'Presence' (part of Universal Everything), a film of digitised dance movements created from two dancers wearing reflective markers who were recorded by 62 cameras. The movements were processed by a series of different algorithms: sometimes they flow, sometimes parts of the dancers’ bodies are ‘connected’ by strings of light, sometimes the movements are broken into small spiky elements. Some are mono, some are colour and all are mesmerising.

My still pictures of the film have changed the image again, since the slow shutter speed both interrupts the flow of the movement and records more than the eye can see at one time.

Go, if you can get there, especially since it happens to be right next to the previously recommended photography exhibition, Only in England.

My commenting will continue to be sparse for a while longer – sorry.