Translating
Dance Movement
into
Digital Fashion Design
MIMI
Dancer and movement collaborator whose improvisations form the starting point of the design exploration.
Nsaka Sandrine Nganga
Music producer, digital fashion researcher leading the project and exploring how movement can inform digital garment design.
Body as Pattern :Translating Dance Movement into Digital Fashion Design is a transdisciplinary project developed through the collaboration between a dancer and a digital fashion designer researcher.
The project explores how movement can become a starting point for designing garments. Through dance sessions, gestures, rhythm and body dynamics are observed and translated into lines, shapes and garment structures.
Instead of beginning with traditional pattern making, the process starts with the moving body. Body movement becomes designs.
By bringing dance and digital fashion together, the project creates a space for experimentation where choreography and clothing influence one another. It is an exploration of how the body can generate form, and how movement can become design.
Disciplines involved
Dance / Movement Practice
Movement exploration is led by Mimi through improvisational dance sessions. Her body becomes the primary research tool, generating gestures, rhythms and spatial dynamics that form the foundation of the project.
Digital Fashion Design
Sandrine Nganga translates movement observations into digital fashion concepts. Lines, rhythms and body dynamics extracted from the dance sessions inform the development of experimental garment forms.
Music Production
Original sound environments produced by Sandrine guide each movement session. The music shapes the energy, tempo and atmosphere, influencing how the body responds and moves.
Video Documentation
Each session is recorded to capture the complexity of movement. The footage becomes a key material for analysing gestures, identifying movement patterns and informing the design process.
Artistic Research
The project operates as a practice led artistic research, bringing together dance, music and digital fashion design to explore how movement can generate new approaches to garment creation.
“Every movement leaves a trace. The body draws the first line of design.”
