SEGUE 2015: Encoded

The Street and ANU Centre for European Studies presents SEGUE 2015 Encoded Stalker Theatre (Australia/Europe) Encoded is a visually stunning meditation on the fragility of space and our place within it. Encoded creates a ravishing immersive world of shimmering images that dissolve and reform as the performers sweep across the space. It is an aerial dance performance that uses the latest interactive technologies to build a projected digital environment that responds to the movements of the performers. Exploring how digitised space alters our perceptions of physical space and how digital media change our relationship to the body, Encoded uses interactive 3D image and audio technologies to dynamically revision public spaces in real time through synthesising live performance, immersive interactive image projection and audio scapes. By using simulated fluid animations (of particles and architecture) as a mediating layer between performers’ physical gestures and the images and sounds they generate, Stalker Theatre blurs the boundaries between physical and digital space. Stalker Theatre is one of Australia’s pre-eminent physical theatre company. Founded in 1989, it celebrates over two decades of outstanding achievement in the production of innovative, inter-disciplinary, physical and visual theatre. Stalker has toured its hallmark outdoor and indoor productions to remote and urban locations and has developed an ongoing relationship across Australia and with European audiences over the last twenty years. “Mesmerising and enthralling, Encoded is a powerful and hypnotic, at times almost trance like work that combines fabulous contemporary dance, aerial acrobatics and the latest in computer images and technology.” Sydney Arts Guide Performers: Timothy Ohl, Lee-Anne Litton, Joshua Thomson, Miranda Wheen Creative Team Conception & Direction: David Clarkson Digital artists: Andrew Johnston (interactive systems), Alejandro Rolandi (virtual costumes), Sam Clarkson (architectural mapping) Choreographer: Paul Selwyn Norton Composer: Peter Kennard Costume Design: Annemaree Dalziel