(Con)Tacto: el diseño de wearables como herramienta interactiva en la escena de la danza

[EN] (Con) Tacto is a Project that combines the design of clothing, dance and technology in a wearable garment that allows us to establish a direct interaction between dancers and the spectator. Our proposal raises a performance where the dialogue between two parts generates a spontaneous choreography and a concrete musical composition. In this idea the public becomes the choreographer and the composer; and de the dancer a musician who handles a textile instrument from an intelligent piece. T hese project had as background an initial work developed in in the Department of Design Theory and Analysis from de Escola Superior de Disseny ESDi, Universitat Ramon Llull, and it is called of T he Wearable Fashion Orquestra4. In this case, our intention was the realization of a textile orchestra that started form the same multidisciplinary principle that combines dance, technology and clothing design. After the initial work, the present investigation proposes a co-creative game where through touch and contact established among those involved (public, dancers or clothes) the fourth wall5 is broken in pursuit of a common experience. The simultaneous responses of light, movement and sound will be linked to generate a dialogue of sensations that bring together all the parts. The essence of this performance resides precisely there, in the rhythm of the dialogue that established by the public and performer and that takes shape in the scene.