Friday 27th Jan 2023, 1.30pm – 2.45pm
LIVE NOW FESTIVAL 2023: Touring Digital Work
Webinar discussion and Q&A with audience
With Nancy May Roberts, Executive Producer, Yewande 103, Daphna Attias, Co-Artistic Director and Joint CEO, Dante or Die and Adam York Gregory, Associate Artist, Proto-type Theater
Join Nancy May Roberts, Executive Producer, Yewande 103, Daphna Attias, Co-Artistic Director and Joint CEO, Dante or Die and Adam York Gregory, Associate Artist, Proto-type Theater as they discuss their experiences of touring digital work, including LIVE NOW commissions FOUNTAIN by Yewande 103, Odds On by Dante or Die and A Dangerous Thing by Proto-type Theater.
Over the past year, FOUNTAIN, Odds On and A Dangerous Thing have toured extensively to a range of organisations and venues across the UK, and our panel will share the rewards and creative challenges of touring digital work and how this work has informed audience engagement and opportunities for presenting work across different contexts.
We are hosting a live screening of FOUNTAIN by Yewande 103 on Thursday 26 January, 7pm at The Lowry. Book your £5 ticket now: https://thelowry.com/whats-on/the-fountain-by-yewande-103-screening-live-now-commission/
Odds On and A Dangerous Thing are also available to watch now via the links below:
Watch Odds On: https://danteordie.com/odds-on
Watch A Dangerous Thing: http://proto-type.org/a-dangerous-thing/
Image credit: Odds On by Dante or Die and Fountain by Yewande 103 / Alexandrina Hemsley. Dancer: Shahada Nantaba.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
Nancy May Roberts – Nancy co-holds the leadership of Yewande 103 alongside Alexandrina. Nancy holds more than 10 years of production experience across independent, commercial and community dance ecologies. Driven by the imperative of addressing the ethics of production, they are Inspired by dance’s potential to unfix binary modes of self, knowledge and power.
Nancy holds extensive experience in senior dance production across a wide range of contexts. Their expansive experience ranges from setting up the dance studios product for global high-quality, low-cost studio brand Pirate Studios, producing the programme at Siobhan Davies Studios (including youth programme, primary programme, classes, courses & commissions) to leading the production of independent & commercial dance performance/film to initiating & leading on Dance Movement Psychotherapy & community dance programmes in NHS trusts & social health care settings.
https://www.yewande103.com/about
Daphna Attias – Daphna is Co-Artistic Director of Dante or Die Theatre. She has directed all of the company’s work to date. Most recently she co-wrote and directed the company’s first interactive film Odds On alongside Terry O’Donovan.
Daphna is also Artistic Director of Peut-Être Theatre, where she creates unforgettable early theatrical experiences. Her recent directorial work with Peut-Être includes The Dark, Tidy Up, Shh…Bang!
In 2017 she received a prestigious Action for Children’s Arts Members Award for her prolific theatre productions for children which now tour the world. With Peut-Être she also creates Audiomoves podcast which recently received the Best Family Arts Activity, Fantastic for Families award. Daphna’s work has been presented and performed nationally and internationally at venues such as Lincoln Centre NYC, BAM Brooklyn, Almeida Theatre, Roundhouse, Royal Albert Hall, Brighton Festival, Southbank Centre, The Place, The Lowry, Drama Centre Singapore, & ASK, China.
https://danteordie.com
Adam Gregory – Adam is an animator, graphic designer and digital artist who has worked on an eclectic range of projects including: comics (The Flowfield Unity), music video animation (Fingerprints and My Black Dog, Popinjay – The Joy Formidable), and film for live performance (Bar of Lost Souls – Imitating The Dog, Complicity Simplex and Two Peas without a Pod – Levantes Dance Theatre).
His work is primarily concerned with the tensions between the digital and the handmade, the reproducible and the unique. More information about Adam and his work is available at The Secret Surface.
ABOUT THE LIVE NOW COMMISSIONS
FOUNTAIN by Yewande 103
Building on Yewande 103’s current body of work around embodied advocacy, Fountain blends together dance and digital watery environments to explore tidal cycles of repair, loss, joy and intimacy. This powerful work draws on the symbolism and psycho-geography of water as inevitably linked to Black histories, embodiments, experiences and mental health.
Guided by choreographer Alexandrina Hemsley’s tightly woven movement score, dancers Rickay Hewitt-Martin, Rudzani Moleya and Shahada Nantaba, cycle through contrasting edits of splashing waves with a darkened theatre space, the trio shift between spectrums of being seen, mirrored & camouflaged by water.
Fountain situates itself amidst the colliding range and scale of experiences within Black subjectivities that water evokes: from the play of running through fountains in the summer, to the significance of oceanic passages and the impacts of colonial carving up of water and selves within Black existences.
Considering the water within our own bodies in relation to the other waters within Earth’s hydrosphere, Fountain tenderly senses our inescapable tides of life and death; welcoming how our watery bodies exist simultaneously as oceans, tombs and sanctuaries.
FOUNTAIN has been developed as part of LIVE NOW – a digital commissioning programme from The Lowry Additional commissioning support from Cambridge Junction. R&D support from The Place and a Wainsgate Dances 2021 residency. Supported using public finding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Odds On by Dante or Die
Following the award-winning video podcast User Not Found, Dante or Die bring you a new, free to watch, interactive short film that’ll have you hooked from the start.
Log in to Pearls of Fortune, the online slots game that’s caught us all in its net, give yourself a fun name, pick an adorable avatar, and plunge beneath the waves for a few spins.
Odds On takes you deep down into the world of online gambling; from that first win, all the way behind the screen to give a game’s-eye view of how your fellow players are really doing.
Follow Felicity, a valued customer, and peer beneath the murky depths to see how a cheeky spin can spiral out of control.
Please Note: This film contains gambling (live play, images, sounds & slot simulation) which may be very triggering to people with a gambling addiction or who are in recovery. If slot machine simulation will be triggering to you, please contact admin@danteordie.com, who will send you a non-interactive version of Odds On.
https://danteordie.com/odds-on
A Dangerous Thing
Part of The Truth to Power Project
A Dangerous Thing is a new, digitally animated work created in response to a world full of uncertainty.
Proto-type have worked with long-time collaborator, visual artist Adam York Gregory, to continue our socially-engaged exploration of power, democracy, truth-telling, protest, privacy, conspiracy, and control.
Expanding on ideas explored in our recent, critically acclaimed theatre works (A Machine they’re Secretly Building and The Audit), A Dangerous Thing wants to punch its way out of the screen and into our homes.
It wants to shake us up, to wake us up, and to hunt down all those insidious lies, hiding in plain sight, and running ahead of us with their boots on.
Mashing and melding animation styles, original sound and composition, contemporary performance and story-telling, A Dangerous Thing is coming, and it cannot be stopped.
http://proto-type.org/a-dangerous-thing/