22-25/09/2022
Center of Contemporary Creations, Madrid
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LEV (Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual) is a platform of production, promotion and experimentation related to electronic sound creations, audiovisual creations and digital art.

Future Dance of Nostalgia by Kexin Hao
Through the research on work songs that use singing/chanting to help choreograph the repetitive manual labour, the artist tries to trace out how our moving bodies used to cooperate in the extinct activities of production. From here she questions: how do we preserve the body movements and restore our moving bodies as the living archives? Can we restore it on this body of you and me, now and here?Future Dance of Nostalgia combines ethnographic research, rhythmic choreography, and gaming. Taking the form of classic dancing video games such as Just Dance, the work invites audience to perform the choreography that extracts and abstracts the movements found in the pre-industrial, heavy physical labour, and work songs. Motion tracking technology allows our body movements to be quantified, measured, and evaluated. Historical archives of work songs provide the inspiration for themusic that renders the old tales and melodies into clubbing beats that lead the dance. Future Dance of Nostalgia is a work commissioned by iii (instrumentinventors.org) and created in collaboration with Leonardo Scarin (game design), Ludmila Rodrigues (choreography), Rachwill Breidel (music), Pedro Gossler (videography, 3D).