BIBAP - body in bits and pieces

[V2_]

A project by Carolien Hermans, V2_ and NPS
2006-2007

Dancers: Kyungsun Baek, Jefta van Dinther, Aimar Perez Gali, Maria Mavridou, Pere Faura

www.bibap.nl

In the Kinkerbuurt, Amsterdam West, a man is chased. His pursuer wants his skin, literally: he wants to take over his body. BIBAP is about the physical act of running, about exhaustion, about breathing, about keep-on-going even while you can’t. BIBAP is about rhythm, about repetition, about what will happen when you eventually stop running.

Body in Bits and Pieces (BIBAP) is a cross media dance project, initiated by choreograper and director Carolien Hermans. BIBAP contains a thriller-like dance movie and a poetic online dance story. After the realization of the prototype for the BIBAP interactive Internet project in 2006, V2_ coordinated the realization of the final version of the BIBAP online application. This application cleverly combines dance film with gaming technology by integrating dance movie clips into an interactive application. Through a combination of physical and virtual interaction with the application a user is immersed into a virtual world in which a story unfolds based on expressive dancing and many interactive surprises. The virtual world is inspired on Amsterdam ‘Oud-West’ and several parts of this area in Amsterdam have been recreated in the virtual world of BIBAP. While the full dance movie by Danslab is about a running man chased by 'body-invaders', this relation is reversed in the Internet application. There the user takes the perspective of the running man, but this time he is chasing the 'body invaders', leading to many exciting dance encounters.

Bibap is funded by the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NPS) and the Stimuleringsfonds voor Nederlandse Culturele Omroepproducties (STIFO).