Virtual Geographies: Episode 1 (Excerpt)

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A performance that asks, ‘How do the virtual and tangible intersect in our consideration of time, experience, and geography?’

V I R T U A L G E O G R A P H I E S is a conceptual collaboration between Lizzy Tan and Carly Lave, two American artists based in London and Berlin. The performance used live-stream video streamed from Berlin to London with concurrent performances in each city.

V I R T U A L G E O G R A P H I E S presents a framework of four different spaces: cyberspace, conceptual space, experiential space, and physical geography. Through choreography and digital and virtual technologies, these spaces are presented as zones of communication and interaction for a live audience. In the age of digital technologies, we occupy many spaces - media platforms, memories, and communities - that are both intangible yet crucial to ground our sense of belonging. The prevalence of modern media brings into question the human relationship to our natural environment, the Earth, and how the human body draws energy and meaning from our organic vs. digital world. V I R T U A L G E O G R A P H I E S links our topographical sense of home to 21st-century forms of connection and digital embodiment of self.

Performance: Dec. 13, 2019
Locations: Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany & The Factory, London, UK

Production/Dramaturgy:
Sophie Schultze-Allen

Videography:
Indexthumb/ Will Hamilton

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L I Z Z Y T A N
Lizzy Tan is a Singaporean-American dance artist and social scientist based in London. Her current artistic research is on the philosophy of image and the representation of the female body, explored through visual art, photography, movement, and film.

Lizzy’s works have been selected for the Cohen New Works Festival and adjudicated for Houston Choreographers: Generation Next. Her current solo work has been shown at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Siobhan Davies Dance and around London. As a performer, Lizzy has danced at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, American Dance Festival, Drawing Biennial and b12 festival for contemporary dance and performance art. She has been a member of Dance Repertory Theatre and the 2018 winter company of Sidra Bell Dance New York’s MODULE.

Lizzy received her BFA in Dance and BA in Economics with Special Honors from the University of Texas at Austin. She also holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science. More at lizzytan.com

C A R L Y L A V E

Carly Lave is a choreographer and dancer. Her current work seeks to question the ‘self’ and personal subjectivity through movement, specifically in a female body. As a choreographer, she strives to create a performance experience that is familiar but other-worldly for performers and audiences -- allowing each moment to be known and discovered simultaneously. She researches how societal systems, technology, and behaviors of control disrupt our notions of “self” and “the body,” and how choreography can be a tool to showcase the permutations of identity and individual perception we hold over our bodies.

Currently based in Berlin, she was a 2018-2019 US Fulbright Artist to Germany (affiliated with gamelab.berlin at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and in residency with Tanzfabrik Berlin) exploring dance styles with new immersive technologies. Over the last year, she choreographed and directed a pioneering performance work, Golem, which used motion-capture technology and Virtual Reality to explore movement between the physical and virtual worlds. Golem premiered at Uferstudios July ‘19, and has been invited to tour to Prague with the Goethe Institute in 2020. Since moving to Berlin, she has been commissioned by the Maxim Gorki Theater, presented work at the Republica Digital Technology conference, and given lectures on dance with technology at Cottbus Technical University and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

She holds a BA in American Studies and Dance from Stanford University. She previously worked in San Francisco, California, where her work appeared in theatres including ODC San Francisco, the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Joe Goode Annex, and through residencies with the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance & Mark Foehringer Dance Project. She received her early training from San Francisco Conservatory of Dance under Summer Lee Rhatigan, Alex Ketley, Robert Moses, Bobbi Jene Smith, Diane Frank and Muriel Maffre among others. More at carlylave.com

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