Hinterlands
Inspired by microorganisms called extremophiles that live on the edge of habitability in some of earth’s most inhospitable environments, Hinterlands is a mixed reality headset experience on the speculative futures of human evolution. Movement, spatial sound and mixed reality create a space that unfolds differently for you and the dancers. Through an invitation to move, you will explore our entanglement with the natural and digital world and the possibilities for surviving, evolving and becoming. Wearing a headset, audiences will see both the world around them and an augmented reality layer. At certain points, the dancers’ movements affect the augmented layers through the use of a motion capture suit. 1 dancer and 3 audience members navigate this space through a structured improvisation score. What has been created is a three-part experience over 23 minutes.
Rebecca Evans
Rebecca Evans has created digital dance experiences since 2014 in the UK and abroad. She explores how digital and movement offers ways to appreciate our mutual dependency as part of a human, environmental and technological ecology speculating on new futures and ways of being. This is done through dystopian/utopian worlds that play with time underpinned by a neurodiverse perspective considering different intelligences and ways of sensing. She is currently a Studio Wayne McGregor Resident 6 artist. Her work has toured to Athens Digital Arts Festival, Digital Body Festival, Embodied Realms, Frequency Festival, and Art*VR (Grand Jury Prize winner). Rebecca collaborates with creative technologist Clemence Debaig who creates work for remote audiences, galleries, stage, and unconventional sites, through interactive installations, audio-visual experiences and performances. Since 2020, she has focused on bringing remote performers and audiences together by exploring new forms of live interactive work online, including work with telepresence, networked wearables, Mocap technology and VR. She has been commissioned by Sadlers Wells Dansathon and Bedford Creative Arts and worked with Alexander Whitley, Mavin Koo and digital artist Lu Yang.
Program:
Friday 4/4: 16:00-16:45 ,16:45-17:00, 20:30-21:15, 21:15-10:00
Saturday 5/4: 3:15-14:00, 14:00-14:45, 14:45-15:30, 15:30-16:15, 16:15-17:00, 20:30-21:15, 21:15-22:00, 22:00-22:45
Sunday 6/4: 15:30-16:15, 19:45-20:30, 20:30-21:15, 21:15-22:00
Monday 7/4: 16:00-16:45, 16:45-17:00, 20:30-21:15, 21:15-10:00
Limited seats, all interested parties should be physically present to take part in the draw for participation.