ENLIGHTEN
A Visual Narrative on Classical Dance
Enlighten is a multimedia research project, fabricating the dancer’s expressions into generative visual narration and integrate it along with the performance. The visual narratives are evolving motifs generating from the specially developed pattern generator, which takes its guidelines from the facial expressions of the dancer while performing.
The generative visual narration along with the performance, enhance the spectators sensorial experience and strengthen the bond between dancer and spectator.
A Holographic display serves as a miniature model to visualize the fabrication of multimedia with classical dance.
Driven by the complex interior emotion of a classical dancer, face expressions are tracked and analyzed by the specially developed pattern generator to create the generative motifs. These generative motifs for different bhavas (facial expressions) are a series of minimal and abstract animations of basic geometrical figures. The pattern generator for these generative motifs take
its guidelines from the human perception of geometrical figures in visualization and
angika-abhinaya from the natyadarmi style of classicaldance. Thus the generative motifs serves
as an evocative art which paints the dancers emotions in the backdrop of the theatre throughout
the performance.
The multimedia dance performance is presented as a process of fabricating classical dance with generative art.
