In the world inhabited by physically present, remote and virtual actors,
who is The Real One?
What is happening at the very moment when you are watching the performance?
Do the simultaneous events influence each other?

A unique multimedia performance which connects the events in two different places into a unified audience experience. A fusion of contemporary dance, music and the latest technologies creates the specific genre of Networked Performance.

In the performance, the authors are exploring: what is the relationship of the observer to the actors transmitted through media? How does our attention alter from the physically present action to the screens and back? Who creates our reality and how many layers does it have?

TOURING 2019:
24th October in Ponec, Prague & K3, Olomouc; 31st October in DIOD, Jihlava & Moving Station, Pilsen

Concept, Direction & Production: MovementTouch (Bitterová & Biscoe)
Choreography: Jana Bitterová in collaboration with performers
Visual Art, Scenography and Technology:  Studio Biscoe
Performers: Helena Šťávová Ratajová, Roman Zotov-Mikshin
Music: George De Decker
Premiere: 26th September 2018, Uffo-Trutnov & Moving Station-Pilsen (CZ)

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A Networked Performance connecting dancers in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) in Barcelona and in the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham, UK.

Created to open the annual Digifest event in Birmingham on 12th March 2019.

Concept, direction, visual art, technology and production: Studio Biscoe
Choreographer and co-producer: Jana Bitterova – MovementTouch
Co-producer: Benjamin Goodway – Jisc
Original music composition: Anthony Fiumara
Dancers: Erica Mulkern, Maitane Sarralde Ussia, Bruno Ramri, Laia Mora, Paula Carmona Jimenez, Margherita Bergamo
Supported by: Jisc; Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC);
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA); Fundación Épica, Badalona; Academy of Music & Performing Arts (AMPA), Tilburg; Associação Desportiva e Cultural da Raposeira

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Site Specific Networked performance / Real-Time-Made Film
connecting performers in Copenhagen, Miami, Barcelona and Prague.

Eyes of four cameras are capturing performers who are the guides on a journey through their locations. The audience is invited to experience a blend of four seemingly similar places, traveling from the world of small details until the performers‘ interaction with their environments gradually reveals the uniqueness of each.

Everything happened in the same time accompanied by the unifying live music from Prague. Low latency streams of the four locations were sent to a live mixing station of Studio Biscoe in Copenhagen where they were composed and projected for the audience. No post-production; just real-time interaction on the 3rd April 2017.

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Collaboration on the networked performance hosted by the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen – Denmark’s first public networked performance.

Longing for the Impossible comprised 5 contemporary compositions which featured a mix of performers in Copenhagen, Barcelona and London.

Jana Bitterova collaborated with dancers Marie Lykkemark Simonsen, Georgia Kapodistria, Indrek Kornel, Bruno Ramri, Irene García and  Elia Genis to create a networked choreography following a visual theme of orbiting spheres by Studio Biscoe (inspired by the atomic model of Danish physicist Niels Bohr).

The performers – regardless of physical location – were all elements of the same performance space as experienced by the audience.

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An installation and dance performance within the ruined walls of Pecka Castle poetically interpreting the journeys of former resident and renaissance Bohemian nobleman Kryštof Harant.

Harant undertook a two year pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1598/99 about which he wrote and illustrated a unique book Journey from Bohemia to the Holy Land, by way of Venice and the Sea published in 1608. The purposefully naive animations used in the installation are directly drawn from the beautiful – and sometimes fantastical – Harant’s drawings. Music for the performance includes parts of Missa Quinis Vocibus super Dolorosi martir composed by Harant.

Premiered in June 2017 within Festival Pecka.

CREDITS
Visual Art, Animation & Projection Mapping: Studio Biscoe
Choreography/Dance: Jana Bitterova

Exploring innovative approach for collaboration between visual & performing artists using digital technologies

Jana Bitterova with Studio Biscoe (visual art & technologies) – collectively “BBP”- developed an innovative approach whereby both visual and dance artists become live collaborative performers.

They create performance environment where gestures of the visual artist creates visuals on sides of the performance space, becoming the physical motion of the dance artist, and to which the visual artist can in turn respond.

BBP are integrating the technology (gestural sensors, cameras, projection-mapping) that facilitate the interaction between the artists in a fully improvised and structured context. Working from an improvisation, they are interested in the notion of borders and boundaries in both abstract and narrative sense. They also collaborate with live musician Oak Matthias.

Jana is a member of Free Three improvisational company with dancer Kuldip Singh-Barmi and cellist Oak Matthias.

Free Three are interested in improvisation as a form of artistic expression. 

They regularly perform events called Practice number X, an improvised conversation in movement and sound. Through listening, sensing and responding, an instant composition develops.

Two dancers and musician take a challenge to be directed by present moment.

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The contemporary telepresence multidisciplinary performance that examines the cultural ties formed by immigrants between their adopted home and their place of origin; the links that are established virtually between these places and peoples through the Internet.

Bridge to Everywhere connected performers in Miami and Havana – in two locations, which are only 234 miles far from each other, nevertheless due to the political situation it is challenging to make any direct connection. We built the bridge between Cuban immigrants living in Miami and their country of origin.

Credits:
Producer, Visual Artist & Systems Engeneering: Ian Biscoe
Choreography & Artistic Adviser: Jana Bitterova
Performers: Miami dancers – Liony Garcia, Alejandro Ransoli, Samantha Pazos, Ivonne Batanero; Havana dancers – Rosario Cardenas Company (Claudia Lorena Rodríguez, Yanet Garau Rodríguez, Daniel Belcourt Valdés, Luis Angel Delgado Gómez)
Music: drummers – Dennys Papacho Savon, Eduardo Rodriguez, additional music by Nacional Electrónica and Andrew Yeomanson / Spam Allstars

Premiere: 22nd March 2016, New World Center in Miami Beach, Florida

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