Amy Hollingsworth had an idea for a piece using the small aircraft to emulate human emotion – a concept that was new to the international tech supplier.
Amy Hollingsworth is the artistic director of a contemporary dance company who, in her spare time, flies helicopters and studies psychology. She also has a soft spot for anthropomorphised objects such as Pixar’s Luxo Jr lamp. Her upcoming dance work brings all of this together., to be performed by Brisbane-based Australasian Dance Collective, will feature six dancers interacting with five small drones.
“I’d already been thinking of whether there was scope for an inanimate object to be used on stage in a way that makes it seem human. So that’s where it all began.”Early rehearsals involved substituting squishy balls and brooms for the drones. Last year in March, the troupe flew to Switzerland for its first full rehearsals. “One of the breakthroughs, on our first day, was when I asked if they could make the drone bounce lightly,” says Hollingsworth, 47.
“It’s very hard to build that bridge, the suspension of disbelief to make it seem real and human. When you’re working with something that’s scientifically sophisticated, the narrative is far stronger when you keep it simple.“By paring it back, these really profound ideas of what does it mean to be human can just rise to the surface.
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