Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre, in partnership with the South African State Theatre, DOCK ART and Future Storytelling Lab, presents a new interdisciplinary performance by South African choreographer Louise Coetzer.
„e.ID: A Fugue“ inhabits a suspended reality.
This hybrid performance unfolds as a choreographic meditation on identity, mortality and existence within an increasingly digitised world.
We are living between worlds: between the physical and the digital, the inherited and the constructed, the human and something not yet fully defined. This tension between the tangible - flesh, bone, DNA, memory, instinct - and an endlessly reproducible self is echoed through the work's physical performance, score, live and interactive structures.
Structured as a fugue, e.ID: traces a way of being that is simultaneously flesh and data, instinct and algorithm, contained, suspended and continuously circling within systems it cannot fully perceive. e.ID: dwells within the invisible currents that increasingly shape the world we inhabit, lingering on impermanence.
On 4 September, following the performance, we invite you to an artist talk.
Artistic concept, choreography: Louise Coetzer
Original music: Njabulo Phungula, Inge Beckmann, Heidrun Schramm, Nicolas Wiese
Musical direction: Brydon Bolton
Set design: Methodlab
Technical direction: Oscar O’Ryan
Dance: Gemma Trehearn, Rian Jansen, Tamsyn Pretorius, Gala Winkler, Aphiwe Sodlamba
Duration: 75 min
e.ID: A Fugue is presented in collaboration with the South African State Theatre, DOCK ART and the Future Storytelling Lab, and is supported by the National Lotteries Commission of South Africa, the National Arts Council of South Africa, the Christian Ludolph Marais Trust, the Goethe-Institut, DOCK ART (DE) and the Future Storytelling Lab (NL).
