STRANGER

STRANGER

performed live at DAW zurich - Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts (USA)

Stranger is a dance theater multimedia work for three dancers, three suitcases, laptop and a video camera. The work explores identity in this time of information saturation via hundreds of images from Google image searches, random text generators, audience questionnaires and manipulated live feed video. The work asks us to consider what is happening to our sense of ourselves as we dive deeper into the electronic sea. What is our identity in this non-corporeal, unpredictable, unsecured and insecure, massively tethered yet infinitely diverse and pan cultural environment? Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts is a Berkeley, California based dance-theater company founded and directed by Sheldon B. Smith and Lisa Wymore. Their performance works create abstract narratives built on a foundation of physical experimentation, improvisation, text, song and digital image. The result is a new aesthetic that is at once oddly familiar, and beautifully odd.

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