OZ Arts Presents Hiroaki Umeda’s assimilating and Moving State 1
Presented by OZ Arts Nashville, assimilating and Moving State 1 is an immersive multimedia work conceived and led by Japanese choreographer, visual artist, and sound designer Hiroaki Umeda. Integrating dance choreography with video projection and an electronically produced soundscape, the program transforms the stage cum projection screen into a field of morphing images, sound, and dance. Rather than positioning movement apart from its surroundings, the featured pieces merge body and technology into a single evolving landscape, inviting audiences to experience performance as a heightened exploration of perception, space, and human presence within a digitally saturated world. Umeda’s work is grounded in the idea that choreography does not stand apart from its sensory environment; instead, movement, projected image, and sound are built as a single, interlocking system. Nothing feels decorative or secondary. The dancers’ gestures seem to trigger ripples of light, while low electro-sonic vibrations press against the body like an unseen current. Experiencing it, I had the sense that no element could exist alone; each pulse of sound and flash of projection subtly recalibrated how I perceived the role and position of technology and performers’ physical effort and control alike. The opening piece Moving State 1 featured four dancers fromRead More
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