EASY-COME-EASY-GO <at> BODY <dot> MOVE

Concept, choreography
Konstantin Grouss

Sound
Sergey Kasich

Dance -
Elena Budaeva / Victoria Archaya, Olga Budaeva / Ksenia Babintseva, Konstantin Grouss

In an era when the digital environment had begun to shift from a tool into an immersive habitat, the project reconsidered the conventions of choreography. The body appeared as an autonomous author and processor—a biological node within a distributed network of information flows.

GARAGE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Garage Project Space: The Other Side

Where does human creativity end and pure algorithm begin?
Konstantin Grouss’s performance “EASY-COME-EASY-GO at BODY dot MOVE” (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art) answers this question radically. The choreographer transforms the dancer's body into a biological processor operating inside a closed digital cycle.

Utilising a Kinect controller and sound design by Sergey Kasich, the creators have built a living model of technological singularity.
The "Impulse — Movement — Sound" chain is locked in a self-sustaining loop: the sensor intercepts the body’s micro-movements, instantly converts them into sound, and this sound immediately dictates the dancer's next step. A singular feedback loop emerges. The line between cause and effect is erased—humans no longer command the dance alone; they share authorship with the machine.

From Noise to Impulse: The Philosophy of Transformation
At the core of the concept lies a profound ontological shift—the transmutation of
everyday information into a creative impulse:
Everyday Information refers to the endless news feeds, the background white noise
of our civilisation that usually numbs our awareness. Grouss strips the news of text
and meaning, compressing it into the raw physical density of a stream.

The Creative Impulse is born the moment the body absorbs this impact. The body
acts as a filter: it zeroes out the social context of the news and melts the data chaos
into a new form—first kinetic, and then musical.

“EASY-COME-EASY-GO” is not just choreography; it is a simulator of our post-human
future. The project vividly demonstrates how invisible digital waves and interfaces shape
and reshape our reality every second, subjecting the biological body to the laws of
code.