Hip-Pop Konnecting Souls

Hip-Pop Konnecting Souls Konnecting Souls Franck II Louise Company Hip-Hop and New Technologies: A Talk and Demonstration Part of the series Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic Arts Sponsored by MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures, the MIT Contemporary French Studies Fund, MIT Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies Wednesday, October 4 7pm Kresge Little Theater, MIT Free and open to the public Co-Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France in Boston A choreographer and composer, Franck II Louise is a pioneer of the French hip-hop scene. He combines music and dance in a highly original manner and the musicality of movement lies at the heart of his work. He is presently preparing a new creation titled Konnecting Souls which will have its premiere in Paris at the end of October, using live motion capture equipment to generate sounds. Fitted with sensors linked to a musical interface, the dancers compose the music of the show in real time and are becoming musical instruments. The usual process of dance / music creation is turned on its head: here, both dance and music come into being simultaneously. For this stop in Boston, during a lecture/demonstration, Franck II Louise will present his process, the technologies involved, and excerpts of his new piece. View more information about Franck II Louise Company at http://www.f2louise.com/. For more French events at MIT: http://web.mit.edu/mit-france/ This should be awesome, and I will post pics if I manage to take any