Graphical Math for Dance
Graphical math for dance is an installation made up of four pieces that aim to bring together the practice of dance, Laban kinetography or Labanotation (a system of written notation of movement), graphic scores and mathematical thought.
Two videos are played. On the right screen, a montage composed of an excerpt from the piece entitled Witch Dance, choreographed and performed by Mary Wygman (1926), found on Youtube.com, a graphic/mathematical score of it resulting from the artist’s re- search, and the original Labanotation of the same excerpt from the archives of the Centre National de la Danse in France.
On the left screen, we find, almost like a mirror image, a danced interpretation and a reconstruction of Witch Dance by Juan David Cárdenas, using the Labanotation as a graphic score.
Juan David Cardenas (born 1997, CO, lives and works in Bogota) is a mathematician, stage designer and writer. His research favours the links between mathematics and dance, from the perspective of interdisciplinary creation.