SYLPHIDES 3.1

Sylphides 3.0 is a collection of videos created from the hybridization of dance and 3D animation. The numbering in the title refers to Web 3.0, and each item in the collection receives a subsequent number: 3.1, etc.

However, it is not just a form of organization. The number has to do, above all, with being in Web 3.0, moving around in it and creating dances. How to dance in Web 3.0? How to reprocess the revolution sparked by the relationship between dance and 3D simulation? How to start in a new language? How to start over?

Back to the beginning. Genesis: the beginning of a story. A return to the past to look to the future.

The name of the collection is a direct reference to Germanic mythology, and especially to works of great importance in the history of dance: “La Sylphide” (1832) and “Les Sylphides” (1909). The pieces are used as a starting point to explore the relationships and similarities between the classical and the contemporary, and to reflect on what is yet to come in the future of Art in general and Dance in particular. New bodies, new dances?

The aesthetic and artistic elements explored in the sylphs of previous centuries through airy female figures with revolutionary and abstract dances on tiptoe are now reworked based on the new protocols, new codes and new paradigms provoked by Web 3.0, science fiction and biofuturism. Other bodies, other dances.

The figure of the feminine sylph, romantic, airy, vaporous, enigmatic and superhuman, gives way to androgynous figures, neither masculine nor feminine, decentralized, with simulated physics, soft parts, procedural choreography, disjointed movements, hyperflexible joints. Hyperhuman. Diverse bodies. Various dances.

Sylphides 3.1 presents 200 sylphs in embryological form. Various elements of the language of dance, such as the waltz, the circle, the turn, the support and control point, the mobility of the joints and the relationship with gravity were subjected to the l

Creation: Diego Mac
Duration: 4'