Interactive dance video for post-pandemic times

Between social distancing and social media, home office and Netflix, sofa weekends and e-sports, our days and our selves were slipping away. We were scrolling through the endless expanse of the World Wide Web, staring at screens, looking at images of other people staring at screens. Like astronauts without a mother ship, we were drifting through a cosmos of inner isolation, whilst our bodies were turning into zombie things. Still, in the wasteland of pandemic routine, Homo Sapiens’ longing for the “we” was hibernating. – Now, with the arrival of spring, we’re finding ourselves aggressively and tenderly eying each other, not knowing who is friend and who is foe.

performance Susanna Curtis, Lisa Friedmann, Lina Hartmann, Johannes Walter

concept / directing / editing Anna Steward

choreography Susanna Curtis, Francesca Imoda

composition Daniel Williams

camera Max Grünauer, Thomas Rösing

assistant Rudyard Schmidt

postproduction Max Grünauer

projection visuals Maximilian Frank

video / light technique Max Mahler

susanna’s skirt Johanna Deffner

graphic / visual design Nelson Kinalele

duration 30-90 min

venue Uferpalast Fürth

premiere 2022