Háita Sonar Instanbul

After showcasing in 2022 at Sonar+ Lisboa, Tupac Martir’s Háita recently returned to the festival’s international stages for Sonar Istanbul.

Háita imagines how a dancer’s choreography can be explored inside out, through cutting-edge scientific and creative technology developed by the renowned international creative studio Satore.

This installation combines dance with music and state-of-the-art technology, in order to form different streams of projections of the same choreographed piece. The dance itself  incorporates ballet, Portuguese vira and Mexican traditions − captured on film, but also through volumetric and motion capture technology. While motion capture converts movements into computer-generated animations, volumetric capture records changes in the spaces around the dancer, inverting the process.

The installation is activated by a dancer, who is illuminated by a third projection, based on an electroencephalogram made of her brain and representing the patterns of her brain waves throughout the choreography. Tupac is a resident at Champalimaud Research Center, having used medical technology to analyze the dancer’s body and brain, building an inverted image of how a dancer imagines her own choreography.