Siro-A: Technodelic!

Siro-A: Technodelic!

Siro-A: Technodelic!

Before the performance begins a video camera pointed at the audience projects our waiting faces onto the screen, individuals singled out and video mapped onto the bodies of superheroes and samurai wrestlers. We laugh, we smile, we’re amused and enchanted. After this pre-show, it’s a helter-skelter freefall into an optic, joyful, fast-paced, pulsating arcade of visual conundrums. Technology is at the heart of it, with the video artist there on stage right next to the sound artist. At the forefront are four physically highly dexterous and precise performers. Bodies are clad either in white shiny suits or futuristic black ones with studs on the back. Sometimes there are simple (yet technically challenging) solos. With its jaw dropping optical illusions, and syncopated movement to electrobeat music, this technodelic show won the Spirit of the Fringe award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011.

Some of the performers’ movement is coordinated with projected symbols, video mapping or laser lights, while the simple set allows artists to disappear behind-screen to cast shadows and silhouettes. Real figures quickly become confused with projected video forms as they leap on, off and through the screen in a techno-beat Japanese Forkbeard Fantasy kind of way. A favourite section was a rainbow sequence where each sound had a physical movement, symbol and colour, while another was a sequence toward the end where a playful performer and pink ball seemingly came off the screen into real solidity. Siro-A’s Technodelic! presents one of the best ever uses of human form, vibrant movement, sound and video projection. Everything enhanced everything else; nothing was obsolete, nor was there an ill-timed moment.

This show has a full-on ‘genki feeling’. So concise, eye boggling, exhilarating, amazingly zestful, playful and cute.

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About Miriam (Mim) King

Miriam King is an Artist/Choreographer/Dancer/Live Artist/Filmmaker born in London , living in Brighton , working internationally. With an art school background, her professional performance career commenced in 1984. Moving from theatre through to dance, and to live art and film, her most significant training was with Anton Adasinsky's company DEREVO at their former studio in Leningrad, Russia in 1990. Miriam's work is influenced by Butoh dance. She has been creating her own unique performances since 1992, taking her to dance and live art festivals and artist-in-residences around the World. Her award winning dance film work has been shown at Lincoln Centre/ New York , Pompidou Centre/Paris, ICA/London, the Venice Biennial and at the Sydney Opera House, Australia and in every continent (excluding Antarctica ). Miriam has a continuing performance relationship with Gallery Kruh, Kostelec nad cernymi Lesy, nr Prague , Czech Republic which commenced in 1992 and an ongoing performance relationship with SoToDo Gallery , Berlin & the Congress of Visual and Performance Art.