Flying Heartbeats
Performances: Anchorage, Alaska
1986

This piece, created in collaboration with Otto Piene, is similar in spirit to Janney’s Heartbeat. In this work, a dancer wearing the Heartbeat transmitter is lifted into the sky, harnessed to a sculptural arrangement of balloons. The act of flight triggers a soundtrack of varying heartbeats projected out over the crowd below.

Project credits:
Otto Piene, Bill Fitzgibbons, Amy Spencer

Project sponsors:
Transkinetics, Inc. BOSE Corporation

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