Imagining Otherwise
Public performance
Sandiland, N. and Flexer, Y. 2021. Imagining Otherwise. YouTube Feb - Mar 2021
Type | Public performance |
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Title of work | Imagining Otherwise |
Creators | Sandiland, N. and Flexer, Y. |
Contributors | Sandiland, N. (Artist), Flexer, Y. (Choreographer), Minnai, J. (Director), Birch, L. (Performer), Cross Clark, L. (Performer), MacAllistair, G. (Performer), Madore, A. (Performer) and McKenzie, C. (Performer) |
Description | A collaboration between Dr Nic Sandiland as digital artist and Dr Yael Flexer as choreographer together with company dancers. Imagining Otherwise is an immersive interactive digital dance work for five dancers. It reflects on our experiences of parallel time zones, places and lives; exploring the idea of multiple stories and possibilities, inspired by Doreen Massey’s writing on space ‘space is the dimension of things being, existing at the same time: of simultaneity’ (Massey, 2013:1). The work is performed within a digital environment projection-mapped onto a 10m x 6m dance floor. Imagery is derived from a number of topographical sources including: • Digital height maps, displaying the relative heights of terrain features minus socio-political defined borders. These techniques aim to highlight notions of migration, transience, mark-making and erasure. They are amplified by spoken text written by Wendy Houstoun emphasising a sense of dislocation and deterritorialized identities (Harroway 1990) also echoing the lived experience of some of the professional dancers in the work. The research examined notions of sensuous or ‘felt’ geographies’ and ‘kinaesthtic encounter’ (Rubidge 2014:27) developing a somatically responsive improvisational choreographic methodology. The research drew on contact improviser and dance theorist Nita Little notions of improvisation as ‘a bodymind environment [and] ecology in motion’ (Little 2014:251) as well as dance theorist and practitioner Vida Midgelow’s consideration of Bridotti’s nomadism in the context of improvisational dance which frequently employs images and terms referencing geography, terrains, journeys and connectivities embodying nomadic concepts (Midgelow 2012:1). |
Output media | Multi Media Performance |
Keywords | Immersive; interactive; digital; contemporary; dance; geography |
Sustainable Development Goals | 10 Reduced inequalities |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Event | Imagining Otherwise streaming premiere, YouTube |
Imagining Otherwise at Varen - Randaberg Kulturscene, Norway | |
Imagining Otherwise at Dance Theatre Space, University of Chichester | |
Imagining Otherwise, student recreation at The Place Theatre, London | |
Imagining Otherwise, student recreation at Dance East, Ipswich | |
Imagining Otherwise at Pavilion Theatre, Worthing | |
Imagining Otherwise at Dance East, Ipswich | |
Imagining Otherwise at Exeter Phoenix, Exeter | |
Imagining Otherwise at Theatre MK, Milton Keynes (MÓTUS) | |
Publisher or commissioning body | Flexer & Sandiland |
Place of publication | UK |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 23 May 2024 |
Files | Rights Copyright, Nic Sandiland 2024 Media type Video File Access Level Restricted |
Additional information | Concept: Nic Sandiland & Yael Flexer Interactive and visual design: Nic Sandiland Choreography: Yael Flexer & the performers including original cast (Julie-Ann Minaai & Cher Nicolette-Ho) Rehearsal Director: Julie-Ann Minnai Performers: Luke Birch, Lorna Cross Clark, Gabrielle MacAllistair, Andrea Madore, Corrie McKenzie, Yael Flexer Writing: Wendy Houstoun Music: James Keane Text direction: Pete Phillips Lighting Design: Production management: Natalie Rowland Costume Design: Rosalind Noctor Producer: Lou Rogers & Madeline Wilson Funding & in-kind support: Arts Council England, South East Dance, University of Stavanger, Norway, Hull Dance & The Universities of Chichester & Middlesex |
Web address (URL) | https://www.flexerandsandiland.com/works/imagining-otherwise |
Language | English |
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