605 Collective & the response
| 05 September 2009
Saturday,September 29, 2010
Mount Elizabeth Theatre
8:00 PM
605 Collective, "AUDIBLE"
"Being hyper-connected will become a precondition for citizenship." - Jyri Engestrom
In this collaborative work, five rambunctious performers jump, dive and collide to create a rough-and-tumble dance, transforming today's hyper-communication into a highly athletic contact sport. With the increasingly electronic social culture, AUDIBLE explores and exaggerates the overwhelming and often abrasive changes to how we chose, or are now forced, to connect. Building on such ideas as data-addiction, life-casting, "friend-ing" and online voyeurism, the dancers escape the vulnerability of face-to-face interactions, then carelessly hurl themselves through space, spinning out of both reality and control. With the collective's unique integration of forms comes a raw and energetic dance that investigates a replacement of social skills, the dislocation from immediate surroundings, and the craving for all that is left behind.
Backed by electronic industrial soundscapes and experimental club beats, The 605 Collective has developed their own kinetic language. From rapid-fire isolations to high-flying dives, this work tests the limits of each performer with its daring athleticism, powerful unison and awkwardly intimate human encounters. AUDIBLE builds wave after wave of fast, floor-pounding movement, punctuated by moments of complete stillness and piercing silence. In these brief calms, the performers are temporarily pulled out of their frenetic states and listen closely for each other before the next surge hits.