The Embellished Gesture (Virtual or Not)

Dancers: Lauren Guthrie, Georgia Morgan, Maggie Ogle, and River Weill

Director: Rory Willats

Choreographer: Kathleen Hickey

Composer: Nicki Duval

Prompted by new performances of masculinity in social virtual reality, this dance-media performance combines the live motion data from three modalities of pedestrian gesture to create a new choreography—a launching point from which to explore the flows and possibilities manifest within (and between) the hybrid body.

The gesture is the exhibition of a mediality: it is the process of making a means visible as such. It allows the emergence of the being-in-a-medium of human beings and thus it opens the ethical dimension for them.
— Giorgio Agamben

Produced by University of California, Santa Cruz in 2023

Featured at the 2024 A2RU Conference at the Rochester Institute of Technology

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