Media: Performance Series
Come, Fur(r)ies, Dance: Desire and Ritual
Friday, May 26 at 7:30pm, Theater Arts eXperimental Theater
Saturday, May 27 at 7:30pm, Theater Arts eXperimental Theater
Sunday, May 28 at 3:30pm, Theater Arts eXperimental Theater
Ancient Greek drama; the manosphere; Virtual Reality; furries; live video; motion-tracking, conjuring Athena from two-and-a-half thousand years ago to answer for what she’s done. Combining live interviews, dance, puppetry, and shared ritual across material and immaterial realms, “virtual Furies” take flight in the pursuit of answers.
Bio: Rory Willats is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, new media, movement, and community. His practice conjures hybrid bodies by staging the consonances and dissonances between bodily capacity and information technologies. From interactive VR installations hung from 27′ pendulums to one-man performances, Rory locates these alternate configurations within a mediated ecology to cultivate new digital phenomenologies. Also a sought-after stage director, Rory’s work has been seen in theaters, opera houses, and galleries in the US and UK.
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Come, Fur(r)ies, Dance: The Body
Tuesday, May 16 at 7:30pm, Theater Arts eXperimental Theater
Come, Fur(r)ies, Dance! is a series of devised performance experiments exploring how masculinity is navigated, manipulated, and remade in virtual communities. This performance combines the live motion data from three different spheres of pedestrian gesture to create a new choreography–a launching point from which to explore how these flows manifest within and between the hybrid body.
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