Isabel Rocamora and Camila Valenzuela
Isabel Rocamora, anti-gravity artist, explores the interdependency between sensory visual traces and key energy centres within the physical body as part of her research into Memory Release - the development of a solo promenade piece using motion capture, video projection and the hanging body. The research looks into theories and findings of the mechanisms of memory and its relationship to brain and body in Neuroscience, Neurophysiology and Chinese Medicine. On a choreographic level it looks into body presence and gesture in its changing states of consciousness. The visual research is grounded in conscious memory and dream recollection as well as theories of the psyche of place.

Isabel is working with essexdance's live motion capture unit together with programmer Chris Fayers in order to create an external nervous system body computer - video. Isabel Rocamora is an anti-gravity artist based in London. In 1993 she co-founded Momentary Fusion Aerial Dance- Theatre. Rocamora also creates screen based work (such as
Paramount Pictures (1997) and Arte TV 2002) and currently works creating live installations and experimenting with video.

Memory Release is a Future Physical Research Commission produced by Infinito, co-produced by essexdance as associate artist (dance.tech), Dance East and supported by the Arts Council Dance Department.

http://www.infinito.org.uk

Andy Roshay from essexdance will talk about their current and future projects and development of their motion capture unit. essexdance is the regional dance development of the innovative area of dance and new technologies for which it is impacting locally, regionally and nationally.

Tom Sapsford with neurologist Daniel Glaser (UCL) is developing a new performance work, Hypnos. The development process of this new dance piece is looking at sleep and hypnosis to give a glimpse of the mind and the movement that literally lies within us. The project is a collaboration with digital artists the Honey Brothers. Tom Sapsford has been making dances since 1996 after training at the Royal Ballet School. His work has been presented by the Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House and Dance Umbrella. Hypnos will be showing at the ICA in May.

Hypnos is a Virtual Incarnations Commission. Virtual Incarnations is a Dance Unbrella / shinkansen / ICA / Future Physical (shinkansen/East England/essexdance) focus.