My PhD thesis is about binocular rivalry – a phenomenon of vision, in which perception alternates between different images presented to each eye. The process reminds competitive relations between people (thus the name): instead of the two images being seen superimposed, one stimulus wins a few seconds of conscious vision just to be conquered by the other, then the first again, and so on, for as long as one cares to look… Some transitional periods of intermingled images appear, and they become more frequent when the viewer becomes tired.

The dance uses elements of contact improvisation. We discussed only the main idea with the dancers (what is binocular rivalry, how could we express “competitive” relations etc.), all the dance movements were a pure improvisation.

I hope the dance succeeds to express not only the theoretical idea, but also the atmosphere of a young scientist’s life: enthusiasm, curiosity and hours and hours spent in dark laboratories, with the sole company of gleaming stimuli, sometimes friendly, sometimes going out of control… :)

Dancers:
Dolita Bubnytė,
Ramunė Drankinaitė,
Donatas Noreika.

Music: Tele bim-bam - Pupa.