with dancer Audrey Rochette, video © Petra Gemeinboeck 2023.
5min extract from Machine Movement Lab: Dancing with the Nonhuman [VIE-2-2-1] improvisational human-robot performance, 29 & 30 November, die Angewandte, Vienna.
Director and posthuman dramaturgy
Petra Gemeinboeck
Dance performers
Felix Palmerson, Audrey Rochette
Creative robotics
Rob Saunders
Soundscape
Robert Downie
Photography
Nathan Murrell
Bodies and things are inherently relational and porous, always ready to be reconfigured and entangled. The improvisational performance seeks to materialize the proposition of a more horizontal playground for dancing with machines, requiring us to get entangled and resonate with them. It means collapsing the distance between subjects and objects, stretching and opening up the boundaries between them, exploring the spaces in-between, and extending tentacles into other boundary spaces. Getting entangled, the diffractive way, Dancing with the Nonhuman activates a hybrid playground for rendering boundaries elastic and differences relational.
Director and posthuman dramaturgy
Petra Gemeinboeck
Choreography
Petra Gemeinboeck, Arabella Frahn-Starkie, Felix Palmerson, Siobhan McKenna
Creative robotics
Rob Saunders
Dance performers
Arabella Frahn-Starkie, Felix Palmerson
Soundscape
Robert Downie
Video documentation
Michele Barker, Kristina Mah
Video editing
Michele Barker, Petra Gemeinboeck