It's free to interpret any way we please. Here is our interpretation...
Our inspiration comes from the jelly fish species. We love the translucency, fluidness with elements of contraction, and organic feel of its nature. Our dancer, Mimi will essentially become a jelly fish, interact with a jelly fish, and live in the environment of the jelly fish.
TECHNOLOGY:
We will be using a stretch sensor for the input and using EL light wire as the output. The stretch sensor will be wrapped around Mimi's rib cage area to read the resistance of the band as she inhales and exhales to expand/contract her chest. When she inhales/expands, the EL light wire will turn on and exhale/contract will turn the EL light wire off. The EL light wire will go off to on and on to off gradually in correlation to the input values as Mimi inhales and exhales rather than going from light on to light off (like a light switch).
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| EL Light Wires |
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| Stretch Sensor |
COSTUME:
We originally wanted to use LED lights for her top half of the costume and create a ripple effect with the lights but we felt that didn't match well with the input that we would be getting from the stretch sensor. We went from LED lights to EL light wires since we thought the output would match better with the input of Mimi's breathing pattern. The plan was to create a form fitting interactive top half of the costume and match it with a loose flowy pant.
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| arm sleeve sketch |
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| Leotard |
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| Gaucho pants |
We really liked the look of this jelly fish and used it as inspiration for our costume. Our next idea was to create pants with the same shape as the jelly fish below.
The interactive pant costume then transformed to an interactive skirt costume. After adding the EL wire and piping to the pant, it would be extremely hard for Mimi to dance in. Having a skirt costume would allow for freer movement. We liked the layering idea from this dress...
STAGE DESIGN:
Here is our inspiration for how we would envision the stage design...
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