Dynamo Door Dance This is a collaboration with Henrietta Hale, Dr. Richard McMahon, Ph.D. student Aeffendi Hashim, assistant choreographer Maria Sanderson and six volunteers dancers Judith, Laura, Lenka, Sheila, Katherine and Peter. Polonca Lovšin was invited to respond to the architectural artwork Amphis on the site of Wysing Arts Centre. Amphis was built by Martin Kaltwasser and Folke Kobberling with 4o volunteers in 2008. A recycled communal building made mainly out of wooden recycled materials. Lovšin trained as a sculptor and architect touches upon ecological and playful alternative thinking. During her first research visit in March it became clear that she wanted to give life and energy to Amphis. This started the initial ideas for a Dynamo Door Dance. The project's intention was to test out and suggest alternative energy solutions in Amphis by generating the electricity through movement. The nature of the project was interdisciplinary and collaborative and became a test site which alowed openess, playfulness and unusual encounters to happen. For this the artist decided to work with the choreographer Henrietta Hale; scientist in electronics and sustainable enginnering Dr. Richard McMahon from Cambridge University, Department of Engineering and Ph.D. student Aeffendi Hashim; plus volunteer dancers who generously collaborated in this experimental project. The outcome of this collaboration was a performance on the 22 August in the Amphis building, which reworked as independent video work of Lovšin and made it accesible on YouTube. Dr. McMahon was invited to advise on the level of constructing the energy harvesting devices and with his supervision pre existing devices based on the dynamo are used as the main focus. Lovšin looked into camping devices and torches of different types: squeeze torches, string and pull torches, string and pull phone chargers, windup camping lamps, wind up phone chargers and Faraday torches. These pre existing gadgets became the base for the energy harvesting devices. With help from his Ph.D. student Aeffendi Hashim, it became possible to transform all devices and implement them in Amphis. The electricity is produced by jumping and stepping, which is immediately transformed into light and sound attached to basic architectural parts in Amphis. The devices are placed at seven points in the floor, on all doors (except the entrance door) on two columns and two beams running through the space. A choreographer Henrietta Hale was present throughout the creative process. Hale and Lovšin discussed together where to place the devices and how movement would work together with them. The playful choreography is based on dancer's generating electricity. The basic use of devices underlines and connects how the dance created a playful and humourous chain reaction. The project is supported by: Wysing Arts Centre, Visiting Arts, RSA Arts and Ecology, Ministry of Culture of Slovenia, Kud Obrat Ljubljana