Remote Real

Remote Real is an interdisciplinary dance work born of an investigation of performance styles including, theatre, contemporary dance, performance, documentary film and social networking applications. This work questions people's choices about presence and absence, of self and body in relationships through live and recorded performance. It investigates social networking via the internet through dramatic representation and both the opening up and closing in of social space through communication technology triggered by corporeal immediacy. Remote Real, investigates isolation in contemporary society where communication difficulties in real time physical spaces are danced out next to moments of contact in virtual worlds. A real time narrative embedded in the frustrations of a remote relationship interrupts and crashes the conceptual journey taken by the dancers communing with their laptops.

Title: Remote Real (Development 1)
Stage 1: Rorelson, Malmo, Sweden
Choreographer: Sarah Neville
Creative Consultant: Michelle Outram
Producer: Kite Productions
Design: Mia Holton
Text: Jo Pollitt, Maitland Schnaars
Performed by: Madeliene Karlsson, Adelina Larsson, Maitland Schnaars
Supported by: Arts WA, Rorelson

Title: Remote Real (Development 2)
Stage 2: Deckchair Fremantle
Choreographer: Sarah Neville
Creative Consultant: Michelle Outram
Producer: Kite Productions
Design: Mia Holton
Text: Jo Pollitt, Maitland Schnaars
Performed by: Adelina Larsson, Maitland Schnaars, Helen Duncan, Rhiannon Newton
Supported by: Arts WA, Deckchair Theatre