K
A journey from intimacy to isolation driven by mobile technologies and our need to communicate.
K
2016
Concept
Rebecca Evans and Lorenza Lo
Direction and Choreography
Rebecca Evans
Dancers
Emily Thompson-Smith, Kostas Papamatthaiakis and Lorenza Lo
Sound Arranged by
Christin Rauter
Projection design
Lorenza Lo
Lighting design
Jo Hornsby
'Effective and affecting work'
-Sanjoy Roy, londondance.com
“We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.”
-Sherry Turkle
With two handheld and two fixed projectors, as well as 400 paper planes, the dancers seek to communicate with each other, the audience and themselves. Messages dance around the space in projected words and flying planes, eroding the dancers relationship as they become increasingly present.
'K' was commissioned and premiered at Wilton's Music Hall as part of Wilton's Strike September 2016, supported by Creation Box.
Image: Judith Kuniskyte
Video: Arts Streaming