Darkroom Contemporary introduces In C and clone
The Darkroom Contemporary has launched a new interdisciplinary performance project, which merges sound, motion and technology in a series of innovative representations of new dance. Clone will take place from 15-16 March 2018 at the William Kentridge's Centre For The Less Good Idea in Johannesburg. In C then returns to Cape Town for a performance run at the Magnet Theatre from 20-25 March 2018.
This project is a continuation of Darkroom Contemporary’s mission of developing sustainable employment and skills development opportunities within the performing arts sector.
A series of collaborative performances, interactive installations, educational workshops, and forum discussions have been set up as part of this event. In C is made possible by a grant from the National Lotteries Commission, while Clone is produced through additional support from the Centre For The Less Good Idea and the Western Cape Government’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport.
These performances will include space for audiences to experience the project’s interactive motion sensor installation - a sonic playground where everybody becomes a dance maker and a composer, using their own motion to create unique soundscapes and movement phrases in real time. Created in collaboration with some of Cape Town’s leading composers, musicians and designers, this double bill consists of two dynamic dance works by choreographer Louise Coetzer, both featuring live music.
Evolving from its ongoing campaigns to share dance with a broader audience, Darkroom Contemporary’s artistic director Louise Coetzer amplifies this mission to place dance at the centre of its urban, technologically driven landscape through In C, “I approach dance-making as a medium for narrative and connection - that of the bodies within space, but also with the aim of connecting dance as an art form to the world outside the studio or theatre, and to other art forms. In an age of technology, digital media and mass visual overload, my interests stretch towards allowing dance to interact with unexpected fields - especially those which seemingly have little or no direct connection - mathematics, science, computer - and digital technologies, physics and design.”
Ticket info
Ticket for IN C I DOUBLE BILL in Cape Town are available via Quicket
Tickets for clone at the Centre For The Less Good Idea, Jozi are available at lessgoodidea.com/bookings
