Score — Isaiah Wilson
score is a radical and necessary metaphor of our human condition in relation to the modern world. In this creation, Isaiah Wilson combines dance and numerical art. He takes an innovative approach, using computational tools and bare bodies to create a hybrid between the timeless digital world and the “human world”, symbolic of nature. To echo new technologies such as artificial intelligence and transhumanism, he wants to propose a live performance that opens up a discourse on the dangers of technologies and the effects they have on the mind and on the body. The concept deployed in score allows spectators to observe bodies in total dispossession of their cognitive means. Muscular contractions can be observed occurring involuntarily and simultaneously in each dancer. Isaiah Wilson intends to use technology to generate ultimate synchronization between the 3 performers who make up the cast of the piece – using an external tool, EMS (Electric Muscle Stimulation).
Through a scenic proposition that claims to commercialize bodies as one would commercialize an electronic device for its own functionality, score dispossesses individuals of their substance, their free will, to the benefit of an ever more innovative and meliorative technology.
Credits
Artistic Direction: Isaiah Wilson
Artistic Supervision: Sarah Baltzinger
Computer Engineering & Coding: Kreativ Stuff
Performance & Co-Creation: Aurore Gruel, Meggie Isabet, Wilchaan Roy
Technical Supervision: Damiano Picci
About Isaiah Wilson
Isaiah completed his secondary education at the Lycée des Arts et Métiers and proceeded dance at Codarts Rotterdam. As part of the program he did his internship with ICK Amsterdam, directed by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Sholtes. He later worked with Jill Crovisier and also took on a project with the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, choreographed by Saar Magal. Today, he actively collaborates with Sarah Baltzinger, working in film, composes music and creates his own work signed by an interdisciplinary approach.
