THEATRE OF LIGHT

Live-Cinema Sensor Performances/Installations/Architectural Facade Projection Mapping/AV Lecture-dem. 

Funding and commissioning partners: Zentrum Paul Klee, Goethe Institut New Zealand, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Creative New Zealand toi Aotearoa, Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires, and festival partners.

Commissioned live (TRACES) for Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern 2014, Switzerland; and HBKsaar Media Facade, Saarbrücken 2014. Official film selection Palma Espai d’Art Foundation Videodance Festival dedicated to Japan, Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2014. Official selection Escuchar [Sonidos Visuales] Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires 2014, Argentina. Official selections Attakkalari Biennial 2015 (TRACES), Bangalore, India;  Vogel Street Party, Dunedin (Site Specific Mapping), NZ 2015. Immaginare La Danza 2015 (Film Installation), Rome, Italy; Light Nelson Festival 2016 (Projection Installations) NZ; Tokyo Performing Art Meeting Fringe The Cave 2018, Yokohama, Japan. Artweek and Tempo Dance Festival at Auckland Art Gallery 2018 (Projection Mapping); Auckland Live (Media Screenings) 2019; Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2019 (McaM Artist Lecture-dem); Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting 2020 Showcases, Yokohama, Japan.

The film window is as much instrument as the body is instrument - both speak to each other in a kinetic sense. We are on the edge of shadow when we engage in the architecture of light. Spaces and forms come alive when given the pulse of human presence. The synaesthetic event happens when they are synchronised with sound. In our films the focus to explore space and perspective by choreographic/photographic means is portrayed through the questing dancer in motion. Our work looks to shift perception of the moving body and how it interfaces with screen boundaries by employing buildings, cameras, projectors and post-production technologies. In Aotearoa New Zealand we have initiated art gallery dance performance, dance film projection mapping, dome cinema dance and dance VR. Our projects extend dance performance beyond the confines of the conventional stage.

“Good Company Arts aims to create a “stage” that can be explored by other domains of knowledge complementary to dance, as well as architecture, anthropology, computer programming, etc. In these terms, Daniel Belton’s work is able to enlarge the understanding of the human being in movement”  Dr Letizia Gioia Monda Immaginare la Danza, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

Film links:  

https://vimeo.com/dbel/theatreoflightpromo
https://vimeo.com/dbel/theatreoflightheritage