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HINTERLANDS

December 8th and 9th 2023

in Bristol, UWE Bush House

**Hinterlands will no longer be shown at the Arnolfini.  The work will now be shown on the 4th floor, Room 4AF005 at 

Bush House UWE City Campus

72 Prince Street

BS1 4QD

Entrance via the UWE doors on Prince St.  

The rest of the MA showcase will be on the 5th floor.  

 

The Hinterlands team supports this change of venue as for ourselves it reflects our complete disagreement with Arnolofini's actions to de-platform events from the Bristol Palestinian Film Festival.  

 

A further statement from myself can be found HERE

A mixed-reality dance work for headsets 

created by Rebecca Evans and Collaborators

*A work in progress sharing*

Pell Ensemble_Hinterlands_Testing Image_

Inspired by microorganisms called extremophiles that live on the edge of habitability,

in some of earth’s most inhospitable environments, 

Hinterlands is a mixed reality headset experience about the speculative futures of human evolution.

Movement, spatial sound and augmented reality come together to create a

space that unfolds differently for you and the dancers.

Through an invitation to move, you will

explore our entanglement with the natural and digital world and

our possibilities for surviving, evolving and becoming.

Hinterlands is a concept created and directed by Choreographer Rebecca Evans in collaboration with Creative Technologists Clemence Debaig of Unwired and Alexander MacKinnon, Dancers Ania Varez, Jan-Ming Lee and Anna Kaszuba,​

Sound Artist Christian Duka, Dramaturg Joanne Skapinker,

Intimacy and Consent coordinator Mira Loew and fellow MAVR student Jon Higgins. Mentoring and support from Alexander Whitely and Naomi Smyth.

 

With support from UWE Bristol, Knowle West Media Centre and The Studio.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Pell Ensemble_Hinterlands_Testing Image_ Image by Mira Loew and Alexander MacKinnon_edited

BUILDING HINTERLANDS

Hinterlands has been developed over the past two months as Rebecca’s final

MA project in Virtual and Extended Realities at UW​E Bristol.

The team explored live motion capture streamed to ​headset to move a non-humanoid entity in mixed reality

using passthrough mode ​to three untethered Pico 4​s.

(Wearing a headset you will see both the real world around you and an Augmented Reality layer. At certain points​, the ​dancers' movements will move and ​​affect the augmented layers through the use of a motion capture suit).

Three dancers and three audience members ​​navigate this space through a structured improvisational score.

What has been created is a ​three-part experience over 20 minutes

that considers how extending participants' kinaesthetic and spatial awareness in MR

heightens senses and possibly connection to self, other and environment.

This is the first R&D of the work and Rebecca is now looking to share and test the work as well as explore further development and touring opportunities.

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