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Lung Pulmo Pneumo
dance film
Aggeliki Margeti in Lung Pulmo Pneumo © 2012 DAP-Lab/Johannes Birringer
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Description
Lung Pulmo Pneumo is a dance film in three sections, featuring Aggeliki
Margeti (choreography and performance) in a solo dance focusing on the intricate
relations of movement to the sound of breathing and heartbeat. The sound in
this performance is first created live through a microphone (worn in the mouth)
and a bio-radio (worn on the chest), then reprocessed and recomposed by Alexandre
Ménéxiadis.
Breath and movement are two interdependent actions; every human being needs
the breathing and also needs the movement of the heart and the movement of
the blood throughout the blood vessels to stay alive. Air travels through
organs and systems in the human organism and this action, ventilation, is
driven by muscular action. This rhythmic, repeated and cyclical action of
the organism, the breath cycle, makes the body move.
In this short film, Aggeliki Margeti creates a performance of megapneumie,
or mega-breath, and the result of it upon the body, building a ‘physical
poem’ through her movement and exploring how this form of ‘sound-breath’
poetry can be interpreted in a performative-physical way. Through the performance
one can observe how her body moves following the different dynamics and sounds
created by the megapneumie and how on the other hand the megapneumie is affected
by movement and different dynamics of the dancing body. Lung Pulmo Pneumo
can be considered a collaboration between movement and breathing, between
dance and poetry, through a choreography which researches the inside movement
of the body (the heart, lungs, tongue, throat, etc.) as a product of megapneumie
poetry. The film is deliberately held in a monochrome and close up style in
order to not distract the viewer from the breathing/sounding, keeping all
cuts to a minimum and emphasizing a choreography of continuous, fluid and
physical camera intimacy.
Credits
Film by Johannes Birringer
Dance/Choreography by Aggeliki Margeti
Sound Processing: Aggeliki Margeti, Alexandre Ménéxiadis
Filmed on location Artaud Performance Center, London
Editing and psotproduction by Johannes Birringer
HD, color/sound
Length: 13:38
(c) DAP-Lab © 2012
submitted to Motion Captured
An Evening of Dance on Film as a Part of Dance Month 2013
Dance Month at the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, celebrating its 33nd year of bringing exciting and innovative dance events to Houston, has announced the addition of Motion Captured, an evening of dance on film, to its 2013 calendar.
