The Story of Parcival: Designing Interaction for an Interdisciplinary Dance Performance

Live video capturing and real-time manipulation of the visuals in a soldier’s scene in Parcival XX-XI, 2011. © urbanReflects. Photographer: Werner Gurlt.

LEA Volume 18 Issue 3
Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti, Janis Jefferies, Irini Papadimitriou
Editors: Jonathan Munro and Özden Şahin

ISBN: 978-1-906897-18-5
ISSN: 1071-4391

Reference: Gesa Friederichs-Büttner and Benjamin Walther-Franks, “The Story of Parcival: Designing Interaction for an Interdisciplinary Dance Performance,” eds. Lanfranco Aceti, Janis Jefferies and Irini Papadimitriou, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Touch and Go) 18, no. 3 (2012): 176-189.

The Story of Parcival: Designing Interaction for an Interdisciplinary Dance Performance
by Gesa Friederichs-Büttner and Benjamin Walther-Franks

This article investigates the interdisciplinary practice of our performance Parcival XX-XI. It discusses the challenges and opportunities of designing audience participation and interaction in order to merge digital media, dance, and dramaturgy into one unique gesamtkunstwerk.

Full article is available for download as a pdf here.

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