fuse*

​​​The new live-media performance of fuse*, adapted for das CUBO, is an immersive multimedia narrative that tells a journey, interpreted by the dancer Elena Annovi, through a sequence of ten rooms/digital landscapes in succession, a path in which the end coincides with a new beginning. Dökk (an Icelandic word meaning darkness) offers a journey into the unconscious, where reality is represented by worlds and universes that are drawn and dissolved in the mind, in the constant search for a balance between light and darkness.

The particular setup, consisting of a double projection crossed frontally on a semi-transparent holographic screen and a rear projection in the back of the stage, was designed to also visually represent the idea of a deep connection between the performer and the digital landscapes.

The fundamental sound element that characterises this experience from start to finish is the heartbeat. The heart is the first organ formed when a new life is born and is the last to stop when it ends. Similarly, the beginning and end of Dökk are marked by the actual heartbeat of the performer, acquired through the BLE heart rate sensor that transmits information via Bluetooth to ad hoc software, which in turn processes and sends the necessary data through network messages.​