Let us imagine a straight line is a new interactive installation by Butch Rovan, featuring dancer Ami Shulman. It
explores the meaning of movement and the limits of perception through multiple stagings of the body in time and space. Drawing on the work of French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey and philosopher Henri Bergson, the installation presents an interactive environment that allows participants to reveal the substance of interior bodily impulses through image, text, and sound. The installation is open on weekdays from 1-5 p.m. until Friday, November 6, 2009, at the Cogut Center for Humanities, Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting St.