The Bubble Chamber

Archive site now live with all videos and photos

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www.mercurialdance.co.uk/bubblechamber

Cascades - our new poster

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Cascades

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Getting ready for our new interactive projection piece Cascades.

Cascades is an interactive digital artwork for urban spaces. Using projected digital imagery and technology we seek to pose questions about how we use our urban spaces, how we look at them and how we move within them.

Kit has been arriving and we have got a great Infra red tracking system working. Today I am going to be testing some of the set ups and visuals. Here is an image of the demo processing patches we are working on.

We Launch 2nd December at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry and then transfer the piece to the Bubble Chamber, now at 21-25 Hertford Street, the old JJB Shop thanks to some support from 3space.org

Cascades will be live after dark every night till January 2nd

Glow Available to Tour

2011-06-03T15:36:00.003+01:00

Glow is an interactive digital game created by artists Oliver Scott and Ashley Brown for Coventry’s City Arcade. Three interactive screens were displayed in the windows of the Bubble Chamber to encourage animation, creativity and enjoyment. Viewers’ were excited as their movement was captured on camera and translated into eye-catching graphics which evolve over time. The photo shows Glow in a shop window of Coventry's busy City Arcade.

Glow & Micro Conference

2011-05-12T16:55:00.002+01:00

glow

Glow - An interactive digital game

Come to our new, free exhibition bringing an unexpected glow to Coventry’s City Arcade this month. On May 19 we will host a micro conference about the successes of working in empty shops as part of Emerge networking with presentations due to begin at 5.30pm.

Everyone is encouraged to participate in the event. We hope our exhibition inspires animation, creativity and enjoyment.

Glow - work in progress

2011-05-05T15:50:00.003+01:00

An exhibition of new digital art will be presented at The Bubble Chamber on May 19th from 5.15-6.30pm. For an exciting preview of what the interactive work may look like visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/airvent-media/5662172624/in/photostream/

Outside In

2011-04-06T14:01:00.002+01:00

A couple of stills from our rehearsal process

Dancers are responding to the landscape of the Arcade as monitors and microphones bring sound and visuals from the Outside In, forming the basis for a spontaneous performance. The rehearsal process is made transparent by CCTV style video of activity inside the venue.

Outside In

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NEW APRIL EVENT! OUTSIDE IN

Friday 8th at 12pm, 4pm and 7pm

Saturday 9th at 12pm and 2pm

Professional dancers will respond to the landscape of the Arcade as monitors and microphones bring sound and visuals from the Outside In, forming the basis for a new performance with rehearsals playing to TV screens in the shop windows which can be viewed over the next two weeks.

Lyng Hall Performance Article on Dance UK

2011-03-16T15:58:00.000Z

Take a look at our article about the Lyng Hall performance and the impact of the Bubble Chamber on the Dance UK website here.

Sidney Stringer Performance

2011-03-16T11:34:00.007Z

The performance last Thursday was a great success!

The media and dance groups worked really well together.

Well done to all those invloved.

We hope you will continue to use your new skills!

We're on the BBC

2011-03-12T22:43:00.001Z

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/coventry/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_9421000/9421887.stm

Some great photos of the Stringer performance are on BBC online. Nice one.

Sidney Stringer Perform

2011-03-09T12:15:00.005Z

Performance tomorrow
March 10th
Sindney Sringer Academy
Digital dance event

4-8pm
Arrive at your leisure
FREE event with refreshments

8 CITY ARCADE, COVENTRY CITY CENTRE

The young people are rehearsing for the performance by creating
visual displays using Isodora technology and finalising their dance routine!

Lyng Hall Performance

2011-03-02T15:35:00.006Z

The performance last night went realy well!

Thank you to all those involved for all your hard work.

Opening Times

2011-02-23T11:44:00.006Z

The shows are coming together and we're beginning to structure the routines now. We're really focused on trying to anticipate how the adience will engage with the space and respond to the dance. The hard work is paying off!

Performance

(FREE by advance booking only. Email: info@bubblechamber.org)

Tuesday 1st March and Thursday 10th March

4-8pm

Exhibition opens

Wednesday 2nd - Sunday 6th March

AND
Friday 11th - Friday 18th March
(Closed Sundays and Mondays)

10am-4pm

8 CITY ARCADE, COVENTRY CITY CENTRE

Rehearsal with Lyng Hall

2011-02-15T18:08:00.006Z

The dancers are really enjoying working with the space and responding to the frames around them. It's all going well for our launch in just a couple of weeks!

Recent workshops at the Pump, Kits Green

2011-01-10T20:58:00.001Z

Coventry Contact Improvisation starting at the Bubble Chamber

2011-01-10T20:51:00.004Z

Great to get some contact improvisation jams going at the Bubble Chamber this spring. We will be running a class leading into an open jam. All levels welcome.

Contact Improvisation in Coventry on Thursday Nights 7-9pm

Venue
The Bubble Chamber - 8 City Arcade Coventry, CV1 3HX

Style
Taught class/intro leading into open jam - all levels of experience
Guest musicians for some sessions

Cost
£4 per session

First Session
Thursday 20th January 2010

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On tour

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Having some great sessions in stoke and walsall on our empty shops tour. The groups doing the workshops have been really confident at dancing in full view of the passing shoppers. They have come up with some lovely work and their comments are all about how they are enjoying working in unusual spaces. Two more days to go in Walsall at 17 victorian arcade with us open to everyone to come in and play on saturday.

The Bubble Chamber

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Current Opening Times

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PERFORMANCE EVENING:
Thursday 22nd July

Friday 23rd 10m to 4pm
Saturday 24th 10am to 4pm
Sunday 25th 10am to 4pm

The audience get interactive at the launch

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The audience get interactive at the launch

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The Launch!

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The Launch!

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The Launch!

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The Launch!

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The Launch!

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The Launch!

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OPENING TIMES

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THE BUBBLE CHAMBER
OPENING TIMES:

Monday 28th 10am to 5pm
Thursday 1st 10am to 5pm
Saturday 3rd 10am to 5pm
Thursday 8th 10am to 5pm
Saturday 10th 10am to 5pm

Admission is free - come and get interactive!

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Here, the students are creating movement using both their bodies and the properties of the space available to them.

“I liked using each other and the wall to move around. We had to hold onto our partner and move through the space.”

2010-06-02T12:31:00.003+01:00

Filming begins at The Bubble Chamber!

The students use cameras and projections to duplicate their movements across the space.

The projections also allow them to critique and improve their own movement as they create it.

2010-05-26T12:54:00.003+01:00

The first project in The Bubble Chamber is coming to life! We spoke to some of the students from Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School and Language College about their experiences and what The Bubble Chamber means to them.

"The sessions are challenging but fun and you learn a lot."

"The space we're dancing in is interesting because we wont be dancing in-front of an audience but around them."

They also talked about designing their project and working with the professional digital technology:

"I liked using each other and the wall to move around. We had to keep hold of our partner and move through the space."

"You can do things with a computer you never knew existed before!"

The Bubble Chamber is part of

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'People Dancing is a three year programme of activity aimed at encouraging mass participation in dance and dance related activity across the West Midlands. Part of the region’s plans for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, this exciting programme provides the opportunity to bring West Midlands communities together, from all backgrounds and neighbourhoods, to celebrate the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by getting local people moving. The challenge for this programme is to encourage more people to take up dance and dance related activity so that it becomes part of their lives, resulting in them feeling fit and well in both mind and body and having fun.'

Interivew for the BBC

2010-05-18T16:25:00.003+01:00

Oliver Scott, artistic director of Mercurial Dance Company, is interviewed today by Siobhan from the BBC about The Bubble Chamber.

Thinking it through

2010-05-18T16:18:00.003+01:00

Starting work in The Bubble Chamber space, the students create mind maps of their ideas for the project.

The mind maps are put up in the performance space so that they can look back at their ideas throughout the creative process.

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The students test out their choreography in front of the digital sensors, using the Isadora software to turn their work into a Matrix-style display. So far, it's looking good!

The first event in The Bubble Chamber is underway

2010-05-18T14:31:00.001+01:00

Rehearsals are under way for the launch party of the first project to be created in The Bubble Chamber.

Students from Coventry's Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School and Language College spent their first day exploring dance technique and movement ideas with the Mercurial Dancers.

Something new and unexpected is happening in Coventry City Arcade...

2010-05-18T14:15:00.001+01:00

A perfect example of Coventry's inventiveness, The Bubble Chamber is the first event of its kind in the country. It is truly pioneering young people's use of Isadora, a graphic programming environment developed for professional dancers. In The Bubble Chamber, students develop and interact with their own digital-dance experience, ultimately creating a unique digital-dance installation.

The first event in The Bubble Chamber is being launched on the 23rd June 2010.
The digital installation will be open to the public from the 24th onwards.

Admission is free - come and get interactive!