Description
Contained explores notions of containment, juxtaposing questions of what contains and what is contained. Archetypal themes related to containment such as body, home, circuits, landscape, & narrative are explored through the integrated media/performance. Fundamental to its design is our interest in creating a physical environment both conceptually & aesthetically driven that integrates equally physical structures and electronic systems and offers the opportunity for a temporally bound improvised performance and a stand-alone installation. This hybrid form is at the center of our concerns, as it does not hold any one genre to a bounded definition, and touches places in between disciplines.
Contained is designed as both a non-traditional performance, there is no ‘front’ and the performer and audience members are welcomed to wander throughout the space. It is simultaneously a self-standing changeful installation of images, moving screens and sound. Improvisation is a key component of the work; we see it inherent to the combination of performance and interactive technology. The environment that is created both contains the dancer and the viewers and acts as a container for images, ideas and relationships, creating multiple perspectives, both literally and metaphorically.