A double bill presents two works examining the relationship between the human body and technology through an evening of stunning visuals and innovative possibilities.
This show is a part of Tempo: Te Rerenga o Tere 2022. To see all Tempo shows at Q, click here. To explore the festival, click here.
A celebration of the collaborative mastery between choreographer Atlanta Eke, video artists RDYSTDY and composer Daniel Jenatsch as they continue to demonstrate a persistent rigour and dedication to the questioning of the relationship between the physical body and the digital realm. This double bill presents two works examining the relationship between the human body and technology through an evening of stunning visuals and innovative possibilities.
BODY OF WORK – prophetic
A dance with the digital.
Conditions decided by us.
Body Of Work explores the tension between the performance and the documentation of the performance, by making them one in the same through a synthesis of the human body and technology, playing with the perception of time. A hybrid, a cyborg, a performance where opposition is irrelevant so that the question remains, who choreographs and who is choreographed?
QWERTY – the sequel
A dance with the digital.
Conditions forced upon us.
QWERTY experiments with interior and exterior interfaces and explores where thresholds begin and end within and beyond the limitations of the dancing body. Where is the interface between a dance and its audience? How does the dissonance between seeing and feeling the physical body program new pathways via the digital realm?
“Atlanta Eke’s Body of Work was truly magnificent, utterly terrifying, beautiful and intelligent” - Arts Hub
“Body of Work is a doubly mesmerising experience. By the artist building the work, and as the audience experiences its end product, they live in two dimensions of space time simultaneously” - Barefoot Review
“Atlanta Eke haunts the interzones between performance art and contemporary dance” - Real Time
Audience note:
During Tempo Dance Festival, all performances may be filmed, and photographs may be taken for promotional and archival purposes.
Sponsors: Tempo: Te Rerenga o Tere is proudly presented by New Zealand Dance Festival Trust and supported by Creative New Zealand, Foundation North and Auckland Council.
Body Of Work was initially commissioned by Carriageworks, Dancehouse and the Keir Foundation for the Keir Choreographic Award 2014 and is supported by City of Yarra through Dancehouse, the Australia Council for the Arts, and Creative New Zealand.
QWERTY has been supported through the ChunkyMove and Warrnambool Art Gallery (WAG) Victoria Regional Artists Residency, Geelong Performing Arts Centre: Creative Engine, and Creative New Zealand
Choreographer and Performer: Atlanta Eke Video Artists Projection Design: RDYSTDY Hana Miller and Jacob Perkins Music Composition: Daniel Jenatsch Lighting Design: Matthew Adey
