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

Interactive dance composition.
Interpretation of daily life information in movement

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

State Theatre of Nations (New Stage)

2014-2018

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

The Body in a Data Loop. Several questions the performance is based on.

Where does human creativity end and pure algorithm begin?
“EASY-COME-EASY-GO at BODY dot MOVE” performance answers this question radically. The dancer's body transforms into a biological processor operating inside a closed digital cycle.

Utilising a Kinect controller and sound design by Sergey Kasich, I have built a living model of technological singularity.
The "Information unit — Impulse — Movement — Sound — Information unit" chain is locked in a self-sustaining loop: performer listens to the endless flow of online news, the sensor intercepts the body’s micro-movements, instantly converts them into sound, and this sound immediately dictates the dancers' 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. The performance 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” project discovers how digital waves and interfaces shape
and reshape our reality every second, subjecting the biological body to the laws of
code.