Sphere is a live expanded cinema performance created by Ivana Larrosa, that integrates moving image, choreography, and live sound, in collaboration with (ExquisiteCorp) Lee Tusman.​ Inspired by Merce Cunningham’s “Beach Birds”, the project centers on birds, fish, and natural systems as parallel choreographies and ecological phenomena. Their migratory patterns, collective movements, and sensory perception become metaphors for attention, adaptation, and coexistence.​

 

The live expanded cinema combines digital projection, movement and interaction with objects. The projection includes images of shifting environments, high-contrast visuals of birds (black and white) and fish (color), layered silhouettes, and manipulation. 

​Score by ExquisiteCorp blends environmental recording, electronic processing, and improvisation. Natural sounds—wind, water, and avian calls—are fragmented and reconfigured into a spatial soundscape that coexists with, rather than accompanies, the visual and performative elements. ​

​

Sphere is an inquiry into how art can function as a living system of impermanence and exchange while responsive to its environment and its participants. A temporary ecosystem, an assemblage of bodies, images, sounds, and natural references that exists only in the present moment, and then disperses, much like the natural phenomena.

​

Performances:

{Re} HAPPENING 14. Lake Eden - Black Mountain College Campus, NC. April 25, 2026

ShinAiKan.AIR × usaginingen. Teshima, Japan. October, 2026​