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Born during COVID-19 pandemic, Bird Dog is a contemporary dance performance (streaming & live) aiming to trigger the audience's perception.Bird Dog arised as a commission from the Spanish embassy in Tokyo, and later on the embassies of Paris, Washington and Lisbon also joined. From these four collaborating points, the concept of the work was born, taking into account the current situation with the pandemic and the need to minimize traveling.
? Bird Dog is a (dance) road movie, a trip that alters the perspective of the participant’s daily life, driving them to question their cultural identity. The journey happens live, it is not pre recorded, an ephemeral act taking place in the streets of Tokyo, Lisbon, Washington, DC and The Hague - a site-specific piece. Four performers connected through their devices sharing a physical and sensorial experience to produce internal alterations: the body moving the spirit. The celebration of a passage: a remote ritual to transform their perception of the public space and engender a community of resonance, capable of experiencing harmony and common rhythm.
Bird Dog wants to break with the binarism “body- technology” by redefining our relation with the screen - mostly used as a communicating tool to see/show and enhance the ego. The use of electronic devices to share body turning the city into a sensory field full of textures, volumes, density, different surfaces, weight, colours, temperature of matter, smells, sounds, time ..., a medium to reactivate the impersonal during a sensorial encounter questioning the growing hegemony of the eye. Not blaming the machine for the growing separation between the self and the world in our constant bulimic viewing immersion, but finding ways of awakening our community bond by embodying a collective consciousness through a remote ritual.
Directed by Marina Mascarell
Dramaturgy by Riikka Laakso
Music by Miguelángel Clerc Parada
Video design by Francesc Isern
Dancers :
-Yasutake Shimaji performing from Tokyo
-Nina Botkay performing from Lisbon
-Spencer Dickhaus performing from The Hague
-Shanice Mason performing from Washington DC
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2801 16th St NW,,Washington,20009,US, United States
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