A.B.sence
Dance performances in the interactive environment
Developed and performed in Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana in 6 weeks period, February – March 1996

Dance and choreography: Mateja Bučar, Nebojša Ivanovič
Concept, software and the programming of the system (light, sound, projections), interactive floor, algorithmic electronic music, directing: Marko Košnik
Computer graphics, digital video, dramaturgy: Katarina Pejović
Costume design: Ivana Popović
Lighting engineer: Andrej Hajdinjak
Sound engineer: Boris Kutin
Performed at: Cankarjev dom, March 1996
Environment, theatre piece and documentary video produced by Egon March Institute. 

With the production of A.B.sence, Egon March Institute has established a laboratory for the coordination of movement, light, sound and video in which the dancers are exploring the synchronization of the mentioned media. The dancer is influencing the tempo of musical score, choosing the sounds or directly navigating electronic instruments, lights and video – all of this through the interactive dance floor. The complete arsenal of the multimedia machinery is thus subordinated to the dancer – to his decisions and choices made from the vast spectrum of parallel possibilities in time and space which encompass the range from random events to the fixed ones.

Aims:
– to interconnect the existing machines of show-business industry up to the highest possible level of communication with innovative interpretations and "misuse" of both standards and conservative conventions they were usually built for – at the lowest possible involvement of esoteric or extra technology or strategicaly hidden or inaccessible software – thus achieving the platform for the day-by-day use and long term opportunities, intensive and step-by step-research, including the real reprogramming of space-time perception and the awareness of the participants involved in the process
– to balance between local, peripheral, provincial, body limited, body determined, organic, continuous time of individual experience with the compressed, team oriented, hieararchically structured, high-powered time of the centre
– to build an archive of materials with open access; to join, coordinate and synchronise with other sources of knowledge and interest.
(Source: Egon March Institute)