E-TRACES

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// Design and production of technologic pointé shoes allowing ballet dancers to recreate their movements in digital pictures using a mobile application included in the kit of the purchased product.

The concept of Electronic Traces is based on capturing dance movements and transforming them into visual sensations through the use of new technologies. To do this we focused on the ballet shoes themselves, which through the contact with the ground, and thanks to Lilypad Arduino technology, record the pressure and movement of the dancer's feet and send a signal to an electronic device.A special application will then allow us to show this data graphically and even customize it to suit each user, through the different functions of this app.

The user can then view all the moves made in video format, extract images and even print them. Dancers can interpret their own movements and correct them or compare them with the movements of other dancers, as graphs created with motion may be the same or different depending on the type of movements executed and the correction of the steps and body position.

This is a project that can be extrapolated to other dance disciplines and the applications are multiple, from self- learning or dance classes to the graphical representation of live performance.

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Final Degree Project / ELISAVA 2014

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Dancer: Triana Botaya
Tutors / Josep Puig / Noel Díaz
Photography / Lucía González / Marta Guillén
Camera / Marta Guillén
Space / HANGAR

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- SPECIAL THANKS -

Triana Botaya / Martín Azúa / Raúl Nieves