SlowMo
Instead of touring with a finished show, the company has turned it all upside down and decided to create SlowMo along the journey from Ireland through Europe, with stops in Cyprus, Turkey, Romania, Hungary and Germany before it ends in Elsinore. The slow travel is not merely a way of traversing geography and saving on carbon emissions: they have turned it into the framework for creating the work. Along the way, the company collects stories from the countries they visit and translates the stories and memories into a choreography. SlowMo is choreography as a travelling gift; as a series of embodied travelling postcards.
The final presentation is as an outdoor promenade performance. When mounting the work, the company will ‘map’ the travel route directly onto a section of Elsinore, and the audiences ‘travel their journey’, encountering the different dance works/cities as they journey through the work.
This presentation is happening with the support of Perform Europe as part of the SlowMo Connecting Cloughjordan Ecovillage to continental Europe via land, sea, and dance project
Instead of touring with a finished show, the company has turned it all upside down and decided to create SlowMo along the journey from Ireland through Europe, with stops in Cyprus, Turkey, Romania, Hungary and Germany before it ends in Elsinore. The slow travel is not merely a way of traversing geography and saving on carbon emissions: they have turned it into the framework for creating the work. Along the way, the company collects stories from the countries they visit and translates the stories and memories into a choreography. SlowMo is choreography as a travelling gift; as a series of embodied travelling postcards.
The final presentation is as an outdoor promenade performance. When mounting the work, the company will ‘map’ the travel route directly onto a section of Elsinore, and the audiences ‘travel their journey’, encountering the different dance works/cities as they journey through the work.
This presentation is happening with the support of Perform Europe as part of the SlowMo Connecting Cloughjordan Ecovillage to continental Europe via land, sea, and dance project
About the company
Instant Dissidence is a UK/Ireland-based company directed by Rita Marcalo. It is her way of bringing different artists together, in different combinations, to realise different ideas: through Instant Dissidence Rita invents ways of offering other people art experiences and solve creative problems. Instant Dissidence is also a socially engaged and ecologically engaged company: we foreground the role that dance/choreography can play as a social engine; we are ‘activists’ who believe in the power of connecting art and social consciousness. More information can be found here.