The exploration of bodies and communication through the virtual medium is explored within this improvisational dance piece inspired by Cork, Ireland. Working in public space all over the world, the international set of dancers will use an improvisational movement score to challenge and stretch the limits of communicating virtually and how it mirrors communication in the physical world. Taking into account body language as well and where it fits into both types of communication, the dancers will work with concepts of dissemination of information without speaking. The dancers will be live streaming from their cellular devices to a central virtual meeting location and will have their cameras on, selfie style, to capture their communication in all spaces. By inviting precariousness into the live performance and reflecting the lived experiences of modern times, Contingence embraces uncertainty; the dancers may appear, the performance may happen. The audience is invited to watch and interact with the movers as this once-in-a-lifetime performance springs to life, and live, wondrously. As people of the world grapple with virtual communication and its inopportune limitations, this piece is a reflection of our bodily ways of informing, internally and externally, while welcoming an improvisationally open mindset to online interactions.

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Dancers: Abigail Elliott, Brendon Fernandez, Carolina Carloto, Susi Rosenbohm, Diana Shepherd

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Stage Manager: Sadhbh Barrett Coakley

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Technical Director: Ronan O'Shea