YCAM InterLab + Yoko Ando Joint Research and Development Project “Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM)”
http://interlab.ycam.jp/projects/ram

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) has played an active role in cultivating creative and research environments to support the art & technology of the next generation. Since 2011, we have carried out “Reactor for Awareness in Motion”, a research project for developing tool for dance creation and education, with Yoko Ando, a dancer from The Forsythe Company, a leading contemporary dance company and programmers from Japan and the US. Professionals in dance and technology shared an innovative concept in dance and developed it in the form of a physical tool and workshop. It is a revolutionary project in the sense that the technology is not only for theatrical effect, but also to embody one of the very natures of dance and communicate it with the world. What we witness is a technological inquiry into the nature of dance. Customized based on the perspectives of the dancer, the tool writes a new chapter in the history of experience in dance and technology.
http://interlab.ycam.jp/en/projects/ram

Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM) teaser
Featuring: Cyril Baldy (The Forsythe Company), Yoko Ando (The Forsythe Company), Takayuki Ito (YCAM InterLab), Kyle McDonald
Narration: Kyle McDonald
Camera and Edited by Richi Owaki (YCAM InterLab), Atsushi Tanabe
Sound: heirakuG (Masashi Heirakuji)
Lighting: Fumie Takahara (YCAM InterLab)

Research and Development: Takayuki Ito (YCAM InterLab), Richi Owaki (YCAM InterLab), Yoko Ando（The Forsythe Company）, Yoshito Onishi, Satoru Higa, Motoi Shimizu, Kyle McDonald, Akiko Takeshita (YCAM), Naoko Shiomi(YCAM)

Organized by Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
In association with Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in the fiscal 2012
Special support: Goethe Institut
Equipment Cooperation: NAC Image Technology, Motion Analysis Corporation, Color Kinetics Japan Incorporated
Produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]