DanceLab Online Showing + Discussion:
February 16, 2021 | 4pm PST
Company 605’s DanceLab proposal is a collaboration between filmmaker Brian Johnson and multiple dance artists, who will experiment with building movement and choreography filtered through a film-ic creation process, with dancers attempting to replicate and embody the inhuman processes and digital effects typically only possible with the use of camera and editing techniques seen in video.
Intended to be performed and experienced within a live context, and as live sharing of this research is not possible at this time, the artists will be presenting video samples from different stages of rehearsals during an open discussion about their process and findings.
Artist’s statement:
Responding to the impossible task of physicalizing these digitally altered images and movements in real-time, the artists aim to uncover unnatural and re-sequenced iterations of their action, with uncomfortable speeds, extreme qualitative shifts and bizarrely broken momentum, reimagining their dance through a “digital body”, and replacing their original human movement with something other.
This proposal was built around two main questions:
1) Can we use the capacity and technicalities of film and video as a way to imagine, find and create new movement ideas for live real-time performing bodies?
2) Can we change the viewers perception of movement in performance through imposing/integrating a process from a different medium?
Collaborative Team:
Creative Direction: Company 605
Film Direction: Brian Johnson
Choreography and Performance: Kate Franklin, Jamie Robinson, Zahra Shahab, Antonio Somera, Jessica Wilkie
Choreographic Editing and Reconstruction: Brian Johnson and Josh Martin
*This is an ONLINE event
Pay-what-you-can: Free/$10
Capacity is limited. Registration will close at 3pm on February 16.
Please note that latecomers will not be admitted after the event has started.
Image: film still by Brian Johnson
