Human.VPN/someplace_else (Tanz-Graffiti)

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Marina Orlova Human.VPN/someplace_else (dance graffiti) is een hybride, digitale dansvoorstelling die de virtuele realiteit, psychologische dissociatie en grenspolitiek met elkaar verbindt. VPN is a technology used to misrepresent digital location. Dissociation is a coping mechanism of emotional detachment from reality. Information society makes it easy to feel that we are witnessing events happening elsewhere. It is hard not to become emotionally affected, especially for people with migrant backgrounds and those around them. Doomscrolling blends real and virtual worlds. “Human.VPN” is a metaphor for the mismatch between one's emotional and physical geolocation. Two dancers interact with a projection of a digital map that is operated live. By relating their bodies to it, they create physical, digital and fictional trajectories, offering the audience to montage with their own experiences of geopolitical presence/abscence. This project is a “collective geography self-study” focusing on global interconnectedness and suggesting to use shared geopolitical disorientation and 'not knowing' to create togetherness. The performance is followed by a facilitated audience discussion. choreography Marina Orlova performance Marina Orlova, Valeryia Le, Asya Deinekina, Arieh Chrem research and dramaturgical advise Asya Deinekina Maria Mavridou Xdzunúm Danae Trejo Boles sound design Arieh Chrem production Marina Orlova co-production Irina Prostakova, Nils Rottgardt, Frascati Producties development support Un-Label Studio, The Grey Space in the Middle, 4bid gallery, Plantage Dok with support of Cultuurfonds, WE Jansen Fonds big thanks to Irina Orlova, Frederike Manders, Sonia Kazovsky, Burkhard Körner, Martina Novak, Ulrike Neumann, Edwin van Vliet, Roman Zotter, Sonia Golovkova and all the donors