I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE

DUETS FOR ONE HEAD AND TWO HANDS (2022)

Darkness. A drawing floats weightlessly in the space in front of me: traces of an encounter we had danced together moments ago. The drawing glows disembodied in the blackness. Glowing traces that stand before me in arcs, waves, curves in space. I approach them. Run my hands through them. But I can’t see my hands, only the trace stands motionless in front of me as I slowly move around it, through it, with it. A moment ago we met, walked together, danced around each other, leaving these traces in virtual space – without being able to look each other in the eye.

 

The performative installation “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duets for One Head and Two Hands” invites the audience to a special dialogue without language between dance, virtual reality application, video projection, light installation and live sound. A performer wearing virtual reality glasses dances on a dance floor marked by a light installation. Nearby, a person in the audience draws something in the air with sweeping arm movements. Although the two people cannot look each other in the eye, they appear to be in contact with each other. They move towards each other, away from each other, around each other, engaging in a dialogue at the level of movement. What is their invisible connection?

In “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE” bodies connect with invisible lines, meet a dancer in dynamic moments and immerse themselves in a space of floating sculptures. The virtual reality dance performance takes place in a light installation that can be viewed from the outside by the audience. At the centre of the installation is a dance floor where dance encounters take place in the space between virtual and physical reality. How much trust and risk-taking does the non-verbal dialogue of a danced duet require? What happens when external evaluation, social interaction and explanation are ‘switched off’ for a moment? How does it feel to come into direct contact with a jointly created movement track?

Visitors register for the dance encounters. In their own 20-minute performance slot, they will enter the dance floor themselves, enter into a moving encounter with the dancer and immerse themselves deeper and deeper into the virtual space through various phases.

Performances

 

April, 30th – May, 1st 2022 – “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duets for One Head and Two Hands”

Games Fest, PATHOS THEATER, Munich

 

July, 16th – 18th 2022 – “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duets for One Head and Two Hands”

Tanzresidenz, QUARTIER AM HAFEN, Cologne

 

September, 23rd – 25th 2022 – “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duets for One Head and Two Hands”

Reboot Develop, Sheraton Dubrovnik, Croatia

 

November, 25th – 27th 2022 – “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duets for One Head and Two Hands”

Next Level Festival, Zeche Zollverein, Essen

 

December, 21st – 22nd 2022 – “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duets for One Head and Two Hands”

PATHOS THEATER, Munich

 

January, 05th – 14th 2023 – “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duets for One Head and Two Hands”

Temps D´ Images – Festival für Tanz und Technologie, tanzhaus nrw, Duesseldorf

 

May, 12th 2023 – “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duets for One Head and Two Hands”

A MAZE BERLIN – 12th International Festival for Games and Playful Media

 

May, 27th – 28th 2023 – “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duets for One Head and Two Hands”

Moovy – Tanzfilmfestival, Cologne

 

July, 12th – 13th 2023 – “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duets for One Head and Two Hands”

Sommerakademie Alanus Hochschule, Alfter

 

August, 18th – 20th 2023 – “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duets for One Head and Two Hands”

SomaFest – XR mit allen Sinnen, Cologne Game Lab, Technische Hochschule Köln

Credits

 

Artistic direction: Anna-Carolin Weber in collaboration with Tobias Kopka

Dramaturgy: René*e Reith

Performance: Helena Miko, René*e Reith, Anna-Carolin Weber

Sound Design & DJing: Philip Kühn

Lighting Installation & Design: Jasper Gather in cooperation with Marlon Brodda, Paul Förster

Stage: Marlon Brodda

Technical Direction Guest Performances: Jasper Gather

Virtual Reality Operations: Max Kolb, Phillip Dittmann

Artistic Assistance: Phillip Dittmann

Live Videography: Alessandro De Matteis

Production

 

The production I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duette für einen Kopf und zwei Hände (2022) is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, tanz:digital aid program of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland. With the kind support of the dance residency program Quartier am Hafen, Tanztheater Schlebusch, Curatomic and PATHOS Munich.

Guest Performances

 

The guest performance I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Virtual Reality Dance Performance at the ‘Next Level Festival 2022’ is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, nrw landesbüro tanz and NRW Landesbüro freie darstellende Künste in the special programme #Gastspiel NRW 2022 and with the kind support of NRW KULTURsekretariat.

The guest performance I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Virtual Reality Dance Performance (2023) in the performance program of the “Sommerakademie Alfter 2023” is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the NRW Landesbüro tanz and the NRW Landesbüro freie darstellende Künste.

Revivals

 

The revival I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Virtual Reality Tanz Begegnungen (2023) at the invitation of the “Temps D’Images Festival – Festival für Tanz und Technologie 2023”, the “Moovy Tanzfilm Festival 2023” and “A MAZE. BERLIN – 12th International Games and Playful Media Festival 2023” is funded within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR in the program #TakeHeart: Wiederaufnahmeförderung 2023 of the Fonds Darstellende Künste. With the kind support of the “Moovy Tanzfilm Festival 2023”, the “Temps D’Images Festival – Festival for Dance and Technology 2023” and tanzhaus nrw.

The revival of I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE – Duets for one head and two hands (2023) at “SomaFest 2023” is kindly supported by Curatomic, Tanztheater Schlebusch and SomaFest – XR mit allen Sinnen, an initiative of the Cologne Game Lab of the TH Köln.

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