You are warmly invited to attend the online premiere of '(dis)location’ on Friday 19th February at 7pm (UK time).
‘(dis)location’ is emerging through a five day online intensive collaboration between University of Chichester MA dance students (New Media & Performance) and ‘Digital Transitions’ workshops led by Director & Choreodramaturg Paul Sadot.
INSTRUCTIONS TO WATCH: In order to join us please just write or cut and paste University of Chichester Dance into YouTube search and click on the link for '(dis)location’ - The link will be available after 6pm (UK time)
The film examines the experience of lockdown through movement and digital practices developed from the ubiquitous technologies available to students at home: exploring the lockdown and post-pandemic performative landscape and the potential of what Sadot calls ‘DIY Digi-corporeality’.
DIY Digi-corporeal practices are questioning perceived notions of agency, access and ‘liveness’ in theatre. It is implicitly a choreopolitical movement, where rapidly developing ubiquitous technology is demonstrably questioning ideas about proximity, perspective, agency, virtuosity, access and mobility, both in theatrical settings and beyond.
Digital Transitions uses a novel choreographic lens to examine how the pandemic has changed performance practice and to articulate the lasting legacy of these re-imagined spatial practices. In doing so, the work asks why, how, when and where performance takes place, who is granted access to it and under what conditions
For more information about Digital Transitions: http://www.paulsadot.com/workshops
For more information about DIY Digi-corporeality: http://www.paulsadot.com/digicorporeality