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Wings Experiments

This technosomatic study makes dance experience more perceptible, accessible, and transferable. The Wings Experiments return to four persistent challenges in Nervous Systems: (1) ambiguity in core principles (e.g., mindfulness in movement); (2) the isolating pull of introspection, which can disrupt situational awareness; (3) bias toward particular movement qualities (e.g., softer and slower is more deeply experienced); and (4) the difficulty of articulating bodily sensation through retrospective dance-speech.

Wings reframes these issues through somatic dance datafication: a level of technologization that reduces reliance on dance speech as a mediator by embedding technology into the unfolding of dance exploration to support reflection. Instead, the experiments explore how technological diagnostics, biomechanical measures, and biometric signatures can support dancers in practice. The project examines which bodily data can be acquired and meaningfully represented through visuals, sounds, or other modalities within the performance space. In doing so, dimensions of dance experience typically accessed through qualitative or descriptive means become more precisely perceptible to the dancers, co-performers, and audiences. In this way, Wings support bodily and situational awareness and reflection without interruption workflow, movement phrasing, or the performance with verbal interaction.

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