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“24 drones” ELEVENPLAY x Rhizomatiks Research

“24 drones” is a performance work for three dancers and twenty-four compact drones. It places body motion, motion capture, drone control, and moving light objects in the same stage space, treating the drones as physical…

2015-09-18StageArtistic Director, Drone and Light ProgrammerMIKIKO, ELEVENPLAY, Rhizomatiks ResearchDrone, Motion Capture, AI/ML, Realtimelocalized content

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Description

Overview

The project extends earlier dancer-and-drone research into a larger group-control system. Instead of designing each drone trajectory by hand, the work connects the flight group to body movement while maintaining safe distance, spatial composition, and stage timing.

Technical frame

The drones are not used as a background effect. They are handled as a stage material moving on the same timeline as the choreography. Machine-learning-informed control supports efficiency, safety, and visual composition, allowing twenty-four flying objects to respond to dancer posture and motion.

The making tests document two scales of control: six drones driven by arm position and angle, and twenty-four drones driven by pose analysis. Read together with the performance video, the page shows both the finished stage image and the control experiments behind it.

ELEVENPLAY x RZM 24 drones

3 dancers and 24 drones performance documentation.

6 drones interaction test

Making test using arm position and angle to control six drones.

24 drones interaction test

Making test using pose analysis to control twenty-four drones.

Credits

Artistic direction and Choreograph: MIKIKO(ELEVENPLAY)
Music: Setsuya Kurotaki(Rhizomatiks Research)
Dancer: SAYA SHINOHARA(ELEVENPLAY), YUKA NUMATA (ELEVENPLAY), ERISA WAKISAKA(ELEVENPLAY)
Artistic direction and drone + light programming: Daito Manabe (Rhizomatiks Research)
Drone design and development: Motoi Ishibashi(Rhizomatiks Research), Momoko Nishimoto(Rhizomatiks Research), Tomoaki Yanagisawa(Rhizomatiks Research)
Drone light sphere design: Katsuhiko Harada(Rhizomatiks Research)
Support: Rhizomatiks and ELEVENPLAY
Motion Capture system: Crescent,inc.

External links

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