Multimedia Dance piece "Polar" explores the relativity of motion and the subjectivity of perspective through the metaphor of a continuously rotating performance. The piece activates our sense of movement and momentum on several levels; through the actions of a dancer, through the motion of a platform turntable supporting (and driven by) the dancer, and the varying perspectives offered by the audience and a vertically oriented camera. 

The interactions of the dancer, turntable disc, and computer vision forges a hyper-instrument that evokes the tropes of cyclic paths, both in musical form (an interlocking series of harmonic and rhythmic systems activated by the performer), choreographic presentation, and industrial-age mechanics. 

Computer vision technology supplies information on the relative velocities and positions of the dancer and her performance surface, creating a performance that explores the interplay between the diegetic narrative of the dancer in her (radial) space and the omniscient perspective of the audience looking in the choreography from a fixed point in space.Taking a cue from the non-cartesian perspective of the choreography, the music draws on tropes of polar movement (transportation, mechanization, migration, temporality) as its source material.

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This piece is created by Beliz Demircioglu  and Luke R. DuBois. It has been performed in Vancouver NIME festival and Codice-Idee per la Cultura in Italy.