INSIGHTS DIGITAL 2022
OCTOBER 28TH - NOVEMBER 13TH
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Our online performing arts platform returns this fall with a new and exciting lineup. Insights Digital 2022 will run from October 28th at 19:30, until November 13th at 23:00, here on our website. Five fantastic works by emerging performing artists based in the U.K., Georgia, Spain, North Macedonia, and Slovenia. Insights Digital 2022 is a collection of short works created by artists working within dance, multimedia arts, theatre, music and collaborative practices. We are very excited to share the work of these wonderful artists with you, we hope you enjoy the show. The Insights Platforms Team |
“I just had a moment where I was like whoa, I’m watching contemporary dance performances, on my
phone, in Starbucks. This is exactly what excites me about digital arts”. (Insights Digital audience member)
INSIGHTS DIGITAL 2022 - ONLINE PROGRAMME
RUNNING TIME 32 MINUTES
TEODORA EZHOVSKA & HRISTINA TRAJKOSKA:
Body of Water, Body of Land
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Story Concept & Direction: Teodora Ezhovska & Hristina Trajkoska
Performer: Teodora Ezhovska
Cinematography & Edit: Hristina Trajkoska
Music: Nikolas Jar -Être 1
“Will we wake up and realize the consequences of our actions? We live in a material world, where there is constant production, dialectical relationship with labor and the more-than-human world can undermine its coherence from the outside, the force of capitalism. Ignoring what's really important & hoarding our own home, planet, nature, living in our bodies of land. But water, as part of nature, is always here for us. Never changing, merely existing. Just like water, it's in a state of flow. Water is fluid; water is emotion; shapeless water flows through any obstacle. Water is the element that closely relates to our emotional body. Eventually, we will reprogram ourselves, wake up and go back home. Back to our bodies of water.”
XOSILITA:
Daydream
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Directed, Edited and Performed by: Xosilita
Camera: Ana Khositashvili (Xose)
Clothing Designer : God Era
Music: Unfolding by Hamatsuki
In our everyday life, there are moments when we unwittingly cross into imaginary reality. This type of detachment mostly happens while doing the routine job or personal routines, while movement is monotonous and extra mental involvement, thinking and involvement is not necessary. Our bodies move robotically endlessly while the mind detaches from the existing reality and starts imagining situations, spaces, and states, characterized as “what if” ...
These kinds of states sometimes manifest psychologically as a way to deal with traumas. In inadmissible or unpleasant situations, our minds use a defense mechanism and move to better scenarios to avoid insufferable reality. In a modern, heavily consumerist world, where many things happen against our will, these types of detachment become more frequent. The more insufferable reality is, the stronger is the need to escape.
Daydreams demonstrate themselves like meditation and take the form of modern rituals. Traveling between two parallel spaces becomes similar to the attempt of time travel.
With this work I wanted to learn more and dig deep into the psychological background of this state. I want to build relationships within movement between these parallel realities and cause empathy between viewers.
For me daydreaming tends to be a form of a modern everyday ritual or routine which slowly but precisely determines the common picture of the social culture.
The work was created during the residency program of “Project Fungus” at Ria Keburia Residency, Kachreti, Georgia.
ALICE WILKINS & DANIELLE TYRER:
Together Apart
Choreography: Alice Wilkins & Danielle Tyrer
Music: David Macfarlane
Video: Andreas Finke
A lockdown online community dance project - Our online community dance project brought dance to people’s doors across the world during the pandemic, symbolising the ‘stay home, save lives’ message. With lockdown restrictions not relaxed, this video reflects on the important connections we made during this time.
We are so thankful to the dance professionals, enthusiasts, friends, and family that came together to create our final video.
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Alice Wilkins
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Danielle Tyrer
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ANDI BROGAN:
Hold
Choreography: Andi Brogan
Filming: Fraser Scott
Editing: Alexander Waddell
Dancers: Emma Dunsmore, Beth Gildea, Lauren McGowan, and Becci Stewart
‘Hold’ is a work created remotely in 2020, quite paradoxically exploring physical touch and what movement language arises through its absence. Working through structured improvisation tasks with my dancers, we created a world in which Hold would exist.
This work was made as part of my choreographic unit at West College Scotland, who were incredibly supportive throughout. The work was created in collaboration with the dancers, and in collaboration with filmmaker Fraser Scott.
SÁNCHEZ & RIGG
Project Unspoken
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Featuring: Leticia Sanchez, Anders Rigg and Rachel Newton
Video: Brian Hartley (Stillmotion)
Project Unspoken is an exploration of the language of dance and music, focusing on the communication between the two disciplines. The project forms stronger connections between the composition of music and choreography of dance through writing both music and dance simultaneously. During the process we see the musician become part of the dance and vice versa, diving deeper into the expression of each side and how they reflect one another. Every piece that is created follows the form of a structured improvisation, changing each time it is performed.
In this piece Leticia Sanchez and Anders Rigg worked with Award winning traditional Scots musician Rachel Newton to create “Her Story”. Taking inspiration from Gaelic folk songs for dance (Puirt à beul) and combining it with flamenco footwork, percussion and electronic production, this piece travels between contemporary and historic artforms. Bringing the viewer on a journey of music and motion.
Funded by Creative Scotland
Supported by the Work Room, Alba Flamenca, Oceanallover and Ableton Live.
Video: Brian Hartley (Stillmotion)
Project Unspoken is an exploration of the language of dance and music, focusing on the communication between the two disciplines. The project forms stronger connections between the composition of music and choreography of dance through writing both music and dance simultaneously. During the process we see the musician become part of the dance and vice versa, diving deeper into the expression of each side and how they reflect one another. Every piece that is created follows the form of a structured improvisation, changing each time it is performed.
In this piece Leticia Sanchez and Anders Rigg worked with Award winning traditional Scots musician Rachel Newton to create “Her Story”. Taking inspiration from Gaelic folk songs for dance (Puirt à beul) and combining it with flamenco footwork, percussion and electronic production, this piece travels between contemporary and historic artforms. Bringing the viewer on a journey of music and motion.
Funded by Creative Scotland
Supported by the Work Room, Alba Flamenca, Oceanallover and Ableton Live.
Sánchez & Rigg
Brian Hartley (Stillmotion)
Rachel Newton