REPLICAS uses text and email messages from couples at various stages in their relationships as inspiration for dance duets, exploring how people communicate digitally. Raw text messages, videos and photos are shared with audience members while they are encountering live performance work, creating a complex relationship between digital and live presences.
REPLICAS examines questions at the forefront of our culture: How is communication changing in the digital age? What can be lost/gained by our new intimacy with technology? How is our attention being stretched by this new information-rich environment? What is the current role of physical presence?
REPLICAS x young lungs dance exchange
REPLICAS was commissioned by the Stockton International Riverside Festival (SIRF), with support from Dance City and Pavilion Dance South West. It was performed at Stockton International Riverside Festival and MIMA in 2016. This remounted version was commissioned by Young Lungs Dance Exchange for their 20th Anniversary Festival in Winnipeg, Canada. The remount used a multi platform methodology using synchronous and asynchronous rehearsal techniques to recreate the work on a Canadian cast.
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