The laboratory organized by NU2'S every year at L'animal a l'esquena is an activity focused on the research, learning and debate on new technologies applied to dance.

This annual laboratory usually chooses a topic around which the research elements and debate sessions are focused. In parallel, several artists are invited in order to contribute with new points of view and information around these elements. The aim this year is to center the attention on new image recording technologies (3D, lowcost systems- video and online TV-, new formats for stage image showing, etc.)

Last editions have been focused on interactive technology but the idea this year is to return to the essence of movement image and the new challenges raised by professional formats for image creation and by the wide range of dissemination and showing possibilities, both in the stage or exhibition frames and in the film or in the on-line dissemination fields. The technological tools needed will be analyzed and discovered and other questions will be raised related to the creation with the body and movement as subject or around the shift in the ways of looking in cinema or video imposed by the Contemporary Culture.

The laboratory starts with an open call for participants which results will be announced in July. NU2's will select around 10 projects among all the applications that will be sharing a week of work in residence at L'animal a l'esquena. Once the group of artist participating in each project is set up, NU2's will contact experts from different fields – film-makers, visual artists, technologists, choreographs, dancers, musicians, that will be invited to participate and help in the development of the projects.